Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has expressed strong concerns about the increasing level of insecurity in Nigeria, wondering if the country’s leader, President Muhammadu Buhari was even aware of the situation.
Afenifere claimed that the rate at which insecurity was spreading was as if there was no authority that could control the monsters in a statement released by its national publicity secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, on Monday.
It was pointed out that the current president, Muhammadu Buhari, is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, making him directly responsible for the security and welfare of Nigerians, according to the country’s constitution.
‘Unfortunately, we have not seen veritable indications that the C-in-C is aware of the enormity of the situation or is putting up any strategy to arrest it,’ Afenifere stated.
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Recalling President Buhari’s speech during this year’s Democracy Day celebration where he confessed saying that, “I am living daily with the grief and worry for all those victims and prisoners of terrorism and kidnapping,” Afenifere submitted that the business of Nigeria’s President is not to ‘grieve’ for victims of terrorism but to ensure that terrorism, kidnapping and allied crimes do not occur at all in the country.
It would be recalled that within two weeks, there have been about three kidnappings in Ogbomoso in Oyo State leading to the death of some victims, beheading of five people in the South-East, abduction of people in Katsina, Kaduna, Nasarawa and Niger States, killing and abduction of about 15 people including Indian expatriates in Kogi State and abductions of some chiefs in Akoko area of Ondo State, among others.
The organisation stated that these were in addition to several of such dastardly acts that have been happening in different parts of the country with increasing ferocity.
It also alluded to the report from Ondo State where the Amotekun Corps intercepted two trucks carrying 151 young men and women.
‘Ordinarily, there is nothing wrong with people moving from one part of the country to the other. But if those people were not on a satanic mission, why would they hide under bags of rice and beans? Why would they not be able to state their mission and actual destinations?
‘They claim to have been raked from Kano, Katsina and Jigawa States to come to the South West for a mission or missions that they were not told about,’ the group added.
Afenifere commended the efforts of the Ondo State government and Amotekun officers for the gallant work they are doing.
It regretted that because of the kid-glove manner with which government was dealing with the terrorists and kidnappers have been so emboldened that they now attack security institutions at will and malevolently go into houses of their victims to deal with fellow Nigerians, all under the watch of government and security agencies.
