By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Pan Yoruba socio political organization Afenifere on Wednesday, demanded urgent rework of the Security Architecture of Nigeria.
Rising from its general meeting, Afenifere in a communique by its National Publicity Secretary Comrade Jare Ajayi declared that there is an urgent need for the reworking of the nation’s security architecture to ensure that Nigerians are able to live and move about without the fear of being kidnapped or harassed in any way.
It emphasized that such reworking should include giving states and local government councils that so desire to establish own police services with all the requisite powers to function as such”.
” There is an urgent need to rework the Security Architecture of the country to ensure that Nigerians are able to live and move about without the fear of being kidnapped or harassed in any way”, it said.
The Pan Yoruba body added, ” Such reworking should include giving states and local government councils that so desire to establish own police services with all the requisite powers to function as such”.
“Doing so would check, if not totally stop, the incidences of kidnapping and sundry banditry now ravaging the land”
Afenifere stressed that the Bodija explosions underscores the need to allow the federating units in the country to control mineral resources in their respective areas with particular reference to mining and exploration
It maintained that the reasoning behind this was that “had it been that states were in control of mining for instance, Oyo State government was likely to know how explosives were being moved around”.
” Such would have made last week’s horrendous blast that claimed many lives, traumatized hundreds of people and destroyed properties running into Billions of Naira would have been prevented
“To facilitate this, Afenifere again reiterated that the time for Restructuring the country is now”, urging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to set the machinery in motion for the purpose.
Afenifere in the communiqu said the meeting expressed the hope that President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda would be giving the necessary push so that life can be easier for the people of Nigeria.
According to the body, ” mong the means of achieving this are taking steps that would strengthen the value of our currency, the Naira, reduce costs of energy (fuel in particular) through local production of petroleum products as well as regular supply of electricity.”
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