The Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has, urged President Bola Tinubu to seek local and foreign help in addressing the country’s insecurity challenges.
It also noted that the sovereignty and corporate existence
of the country is being threatened, adding that the Federal Government appears
helpless about it.
In a communique by its Leader and National Publicity
Secretary, Oba Oladipo Olaitan and Prince Justice Faloye, the Yoruba body
expressed worry over the worsening state of insecurity in the country, urging
the Federal Government to decisively put an end to the killings of Nigerians.
The communique reads: “Afenifere notes with particular
concern that the state of insecurity is such that the sovereignty and corporate
existence of the country is being threatened while the Federal Government
appears helpless about it.
“Afenifere insists that the unsavoury situation is the
consequence of the continued perpetuation of the unitary structure with which
the military replaced the negotiated federal arrangements, which continued to
deny the constituent ethnic nationalities, particularly of the Middle Belt,
their inalienable right to self-determination.
“The continued acceptance of a colonially-derived error
implicitly means acceptance of the continued policide and genocide of the
Middle-Belt. Afenifere calls for genuine efforts to liberate the people of the
Middle Belt through restructuring to devolve power from the center to the
states and enabling ethnic nationalities to voluntarily join and states and
regions of their choices.
“It is most unfortunate that President Tinubu, who had been
a fierce advocate of decentralisation of power, would at the apex of his
political career be in cahoots with an unjust system which continues to
unfairly exclude several groups in the national equation and is permanently
subservient to an ethnic oligarchy.
“It is most disgusting and unacceptable that the government
and its security forces are made to negotiate with terrorists who attend such
meetings in their numbers, brandishing the most sophisticated weapons, with the
government cowed.
“It has now become embarrassingly obvious even to foreign
observers that the Nigerian government’s gross negligence makes it complicit in
the identified genocide in Nigeria, most noticeably against the people of the
Middle Belt who are predominantly Christians.
“It cannot be overemphasised that the irreducible minimum
duty of government is the protection of lives and property and any means of
guaranteeing the same is a welcome development.
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“Afenifere endorsed every form of assistance that may
genuinely save the people of Nigeria from the current genocidal attacks.
“The Federal Government should decisively put an end to the
killings of Nigerians, regardless of the terminology, whether Christian
Genocide or otherwise, including the disgraceful creation of IDP camps where
the indigenous Christian population of the Middle Belt is made Refugees in
their country while their homes are occupied by Fulani terrorists.
“President Donald Trump’s offer of assistance to stop
genocide and ethnic cleansing is viewed as redemptive, considering the fact
that it was his predecessor, US President Barack Obama’s interference in the
2015 Presidential elections that led to the enthronement of the APC.
“The solution to the Nigerian crisis is incomplete without
the restructuring of the Federation, particularly the false narrative which
claims one North and clearly undermines the destiny of the people of the
Middle-Belt, including the much betrayed Hausa who are mischievously classified
in a non-existent Hausa/Fulani ethnic nationality.
“The Nigerian federation should ensure enhanced autonomy
such that each state shall have its independent Police Command with
complementary Divisions at the Local Government and community levels.
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