17/06/2021
INSECURITY :GANI ADAMS WRITES UN, AU, US OTHERS Seeks immediate intervention from killings in S/West.
Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams today raised the alarm on the protracted killings across the southwest region of Nigeria.
Adams, in a strong-worded letter to the global communities, expressed concern over the spate of insecurity in the country.
The letter,signed personally by him was titled "Urgent Need to stop killings by Fulani Herdsmen in Yorubaland", reads in parts:
"This is to bring to your attention 'a clear and present danger' threatening the fragile union of our great country, Nigeria.
" Senseless killings and massacre of Nigerians, almost on a daily basis, are tragically sliding toward an anarchical terminal point.
"The inability or apathetical attitude of the Federal Government, pitiably as it is, is already compounding an already gory situation.
" While you already know, through diplomatic sources and the media, what is going on in world's most populous black nation, Nigeria, I want to urgently alert you that an agenda bordering on pogrom is gradually being executed in Yorubaland"
The Yoruba generalissimo, said in the letter that it is the duty of the global community to intervene and address the issue in an holistic manner, adding that statistics of prominent Yoruba people who have been murdered by these killer herdsmen and their collaborators
have increased by the day
"Yorubaland have been put under serious pressure through payment of ransom – running into millions of naira - demanded by these conscienceless, unscrupulous and ruthless murderers.
" Now, the agitation for them to leave our land has reached an alarming crescendo and the backing (that is the belief of our people) given to them by the Federal Government to continue to lay claim to the fact that 'nobody can chase anybody away from any part of the country', is not helping matters.
"The peace, stability and tranquility of Yoruba people in this geograp