The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has mentioned insecurity within the South West Area can be contained inside six months if governors within the area can embrace the Oodua Peoples Congress of their plans to deal with the menace.
Gani Adams, who spoke on Wednesday in Ile-Ife, Osun State, in the course of the grand finale of this 12 months's version of the Oodua Pageant, lamented the sudden rise in instances of violent crimes within the area.
The Nationwide Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, who famous that each one efforts by each the Federal and State Governments to deal with insecurity have failed, mentioned the world neighborhood not takes Nigeria critically because of the giant variety of lives misplaced to the insecurity. .
He mentioned: “The unhealthy components are actually shifting to Lagos. Bear in mind, that is the way it began in Plateau State. As Aareonakakanfo of Yoruba land, we is not going to permit the Plateau bloodbath to be repeated in any a part of Yorubaland.
“Given the present safety state of affairs within the nation, it’s clear that the federal government can’t do it alone. “If the governors of the South West contain me of their efforts to curb insecurity within the area, I guarantee you that safety challenges within the area will drastically scale back inside six months.”
“A superb instance of our dedication to decreasing safety challenges in Lagos was when Baddo posed the largest safety menace in Lagos and Ogun States, particularly within the Ikorodu space of the state.”
He mentioned the problem of insecurity has made it mandatory for an pressing and sustainable synergy between the federal government and the folks on the grassroots, including that the wrestle to stop the state of affairs from additional degenerating should be a collective effort, involving the OPC performs a task.
Commenting on the pageant, Gani Adams defined that Oodua Pageant is the primary pageant on OPC's listing of cultural promotion actions as it’s the celebration of Oduduwa, the progenitor of the Yoruba race.
