YCE scribe faults OBJ on alleged plot to Islamise, Fulanise Nigeria
The Secretary of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), Dr. Kunle Olajide has played down the alleged plot to islamise or fulanise Nigeria as being insinuated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Dr. Olajide, however, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, overhaul of Nigeria’s security architecture.
“I don’t share the view of Fulanisation or Islamisation agenda, but Nigeria has become the capital city of poverty worldwide displacing India, so we should expect crime to soar.” Olajide said
The YCE scribe opined that the implication of the waves of insecurity in the land simply suggested that those saddled with the responsibility had run out of the idea .
Speaking on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti, Olajide hinted that Nigerians are helpless due to a geometric increase in the level of poverty and economic depression being witnessed, saying the populace shouldn’t expect less crime rate under this harsh and annihilating condition.
“The present service chiefs started with President Buhari four years ago, still, they have not been able to reduce insurgency in the North and kidnapping in the south.
” My opinion is that they have run out of ideas and they should be sacked. They are fatigued already and have nothing to offer.
” The best for President Buhari is to bring in fresh hands to manage our security architecture to prevent these killings”, he said.
“I want to give kudos to President Buhari for setting up different committees to see some of the recommendations on the issue of restructuring, particularly the state police and other critical areas of our national life on how these can be implemented.
” I want to applaud the President for coming out boldly to align himself with the fact that the country needs true federalism and this will help in solving some of these inevitable challenges lopsided structures had caused in
” In Nigeria, the poverty level is high in the north, because the area is troubled. But these herdsmen and other bandits are moving down south and they see the southwest as a fertile land where they can make millions through kidnapping and ritual killings.
“So, the threat is real and what I expect the Federal government to do is to put security on red alert and be proactive.
” The six governors in the region should mobilise the traditional rulers, the youth groups and other interested bodies to work with the military, police, and NSCDC through a Joint Task Force and allied means and comb all the suspected forests to dislodge these criminals from their hideouts.
