The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has urged the Federal Government to go after those killing farmers in the country and apprehend them, News About Nigeria reports.
The group made this call in a communiqué at the end of its meeting held at the Isanya-Ogbo residence of its leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, on Wednesday.
They also bemoaned the spate of insecurity in the country, saying that it has negatively affected the welfare and livelihood of ordinary Nigerians.
In two communiqués by the National Publicity Secretary, Mogaji Gboyega Adejumo, the group condemned the incessant killing of indigenous peoples and decimation of communities in the Middle Belt region, especially the current escalated war on Southern Kaduna.
While describing the attacks as worrisome, they noted that they are against the hasty and dubious conclusion by the federal government that these dastardly acts are being carried out by non-state actors, which the government prefers to rather loosely call bandits.
“The Afenifere General Assembly condemns the attack of terrorists on our roads, farms, and villages. It described as worrisome the hasty and dubious conclusion by the federal government that these dastardly acts are being carried out by these non-state actors, the government so prefers to rather loosely call bandits.
“The general assembly condemned the incessant killings of the indigenous peoples and decimation of communities in the Middle Belt region, in particular, the current escalated war on Southern Kaduna, targeting communities and villages and having the audacity to not only take over other people’s ancestral lands but rename them out of their nativity into names and languages alien to the indigenous people,” the communique reads in part.
They, therefore, urged the federal, and state governments and the National Assembly to speed up action on the creation of state police, as part of efforts to check the spate of insecurity in the country.
