Yoruba Council Aligns With PMB Over Renewed Onslaught on Bandits

By Demola Abdullahi// The apex body of all Yoruba interests groups in Nigeria and Diaspora, Igbimo Apapo Yoruba Lagbaye, (Yoruba Council Worldwide), has raised support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent modalities to curtail banditry and lingering insurgencies in Nigeria.

The Federal Government had announced that the military formations and other sister security agencies would rise forcefully against criminal bandits wrecking monumental havoc against innocent citizens across the nation.

The new measure, according to President Bihari would be focused majorly on Zamfara, Kaduna, Kastina and to the hinterland of Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo and other parts of the country, where terrorism and banditry thrive.

Reacting, the group’s President, Aare Barr. Oladotun Hassan, in a release signed by the Publicity Secretary, Otunba Gboyega Adeoye, commended the effort and encouraged the Federal Government, to spare no rod in the implementation.

And to make it work, President Buhari was advised to create a Joint Regional Security Networks Agency to help assist in building a stronger and better community intelligence fighting support base for all security agencies among other propositions.

According to Aare Hassan; “we sincerely commend the declaration on crushing of bandits and other terrorists criminal cells across the country, precipitating our urgent appeal to the Federal Government to build a National Joint Regional Security Networks Agency to help assist in building a stronger and better community intelligence fighting support base for our security agencies.

“The Igbimo demand the establishment of a special Citizen’s Advice Bureau on Security to be managed by our Royal Fathers and Critical stakeholders within each State of the Federation.

“We love Nigeria, and believe it is highly impossible to disintegrate, no matter what,” the group affirmed.