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We’ll protect Yorubaland against invasion, OPC, hunters, vigilantes assure South-West indigenes
Some Yoruba self-determination groups have pledged to defend the region against invasion.
Yorubaland has been under attack by rampaging killer herdsmen accused of worsening insecurity in the region by raping, abducting and killing indigenes.
The groups urged South-West monarchs not to hesitate to invite any of them if the security of any indigene was threatened by invaders anywhere in the region. They also threw their weight behind the Western Nigerian Security Network, Amotekun.
The groups comprising the Odua Peoples Congress, Agbekoya, Hunters Group, Isokan Ile Yoruba, Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Ibarapa Group and the Community Society Awareness Initiative, stated this in a communiqué issued after a security meeting held on Friday in Lagos.
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They met on Friday under the aegis of Southwest Security Stakeholders Group (SSSG).
Agbekoya, Egbe Isokan Oodua, Egbe Olode Ibarapa, vigilance groups, hunters and prominent individuals attended the meeting.
Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, the convener, urged stakeholders in the the Southwest to collaborate to tackle security challenges in the region.
Adams said insecurity was a matter of life and death, adding that all hands must be on deck to strategically address the nationwide tension.
In a communiqué, the organisations expressed concern about violence in different parts of the country.
“The Defence Minister’s advice to Nigerians to defend themselves was clearly official endorsement of self-defence”, it read.