OPC blows hot, issues final warning to herdsmen, kidnappers in Yoruba land

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OPC blows hot, issues final warning to herdsmen, kidnappers in Yoruba land

 

The O’dua Peoples Congress, OPC, has warned kidnappers and herdsmen engaged in criminal activities in parts of the South-West to stop or incur their wrath.

OPC gave the warning in a statement issued in Lagos at the weekend by its President, Aare Prince Osibote.

He warned kidnappers and herdsmen to stop their criminal activities in the South-West or they will be forced to vacate.

OPC urged South-West residents not to panic, adding that it was ready to flush out the kidnappers, and herdsmen abducting innocent Nigerians from their hide-outs. Osibote said, “Enough is enough.

“Yoruba are peace-loving and hospitable. We welcome everybody with open arms, but the OPC will not allow any individual or group to make the South-West unsafe or turn the region into a den of criminals.

“Time is up for these criminals abducting people. This is the final warning to them, they should stop now, or relocate elsewhere outside the South-West. If they fail to do so, they will soon meet their Waterloo.

“We are watching the unfolding ugly developments with keen interests.

“Yoruba and other residents in the South-West should not panic. We are, however, calling on the Federal Government to quickly address this insecurity problem before it further degenerates.

“OPC leaders will not watch helplessly or fold their hands while some criminals are making life difficult for our people, and are behaving as if they are above the law,” he declared.

He maintained that OPC as an organization was committed to unity, peace and harmony among Nigerians, but decried a situation where some criminals have constituted themselves into menace against innocent citizens.

 

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Insecurity: Ohanaeze highlights reasons, blames presidency

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Insecurity: Ohanaeze highlights reasons, blames presidency 

The apex Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Friday highlighted reasons for the high-level insecurity in Nigeria.

Ohanaeze claimed that the presidency’s alleged weak handling of killer herdsmen was responsible for the level of insecurity in the country.

Deputy National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Chuks Ibegbu also blamed insecurity in the country on the elites and government officials, who loot public funds.

In a statement he signed, Ibegbu said: “We blame the issue of insecurity on elite insensitivity, looting of our commonwealth by government officials which leave the people and youths pauperized, inadequate training for security agents and nepotism in their recruitment.

“Kids glove treatment of armed killer herdsmen by government officials and the Presidency, parasitism by the ruling elites who corner the commonwealth of the people to their bottomless pockets, culture of impunity in high and low places, injustice and inequality between the haves and have nots, and the excessive breeding of the population which leads to population explosion especially of the youth strata.”

Ibegbu also stated that the “population of idle youths in Nigeria is much caused by uncontrolled breeding especially in the North.

“There are more than 20million idle almajiris in the North, 7million area boys in the west and 10 million militants and idle hands drawn into IPOB and MASSOB in the East and South-South respectively.

“When you have this angry youth population in the country you can imagine the consequences. The elites in the North now travel from Kaduna to Abuja by rail to avoid being kidnapped along the road. The elites in the East and South-South have no functional rail to travel through so they must face the kidnappers along East-West road.

“The elites in the Southwest are luckier, they can go by air or sea and some along the risky Lagos-Ibadan expressway. So nowhere is safe any more in Nigeria, not even barracks, except perhaps Aso Rock and state Government Houses,” he added.

On the way forward, Ibegbu called on the “Nigeria elites and ruling class to repent and address the needs of the youths and common masses else they will have no peace since they sowed the wind, they will continue to reap the whirlwind.”

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