Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Tuesday expressed distress over the recent kidnapping of students and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area of the state.
Makinde noted that this is not the time to cast blames on
the governor of the state or President Bola Tinubu, stressing that Nigerians
should unite in the fight against insecurity.
The governor spoke during a peaceful protest led by the
Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade
Union Congress, TUC, and the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS,
at the his office in Ibadan.
“I have had the opportunity to engage with the leadership of NANS, NUT and NLC. Let me say this clearly: this is a time of national distress. It is not the time to trade blame or play politics. I am personally distressed.
“We are not dealing with normal human beings. Just think
briefly: how will somebody take a fellow human being and slaughter him? Is that
somebody normal? So, these are not normal people. I can only appeal to you, the
students, the workers and the teachers, to please have trust in your
government. We are doing our best.”
“This is a time of national distress. It is not the time to
trade blames. It is not the time to play politics. I am personally distressed.
My own father was a primary school teacher. He actually taught at Awole Dada,
less than 15 kilometres away from where this incident happened. My father was
there in 1959 and 1960. If something like this had happened to him, maybe I
wouldn’t even have been born,” he said.
The governor insisted that the tragedy should not become a
platform for political finger-pointing, stressing that the challenge of
insecurity requires a united response.
“This is not the time for us to say it is the President that
should have handled this, or it is the Governor, or the local government. This
is a time to pull together as one,” he said.
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