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A Havard PhD dissertation by Viridiana Rios Contreras revealed that 19 out the 50 most violent cities in the world are in Mexico. Doubtless, Mexico is one of the most violent countries, if not the most violent, in the world.
For decades in Mexico, there was a lassez faire atmosphere of criminal entrepreneurship enabled by institutional and political leadership remissness that later innocuously metamorphosed into wholesale institutional complicity on a national scale.
Beginning from the early 50s, drug-related violence began to maturate in Mexico but the political leadership and security institutions failed to realize the potential devastating volatility of the monster being nursed right before them. The Mexican public also suffered from a lethal collective amnesia as their villages, towns and cities succumbed to the corrosive cancer of untamed violence. Mexico and its minders were ignorantly receptive to the mutation of a sophisticated criminality that would later seize it at the j
Published 15 February 2021
Olutunde Aninkan is the leader of the Coalition of Youth Groups in the Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State, where herdsmen have allegedly been on the rampage, including the recent killing of a farmer while asleep. He tells DAUD OLATUNJI the terrible challenges currently facing the people of the area
How will you describe the challenges facing the people of Imeko-Afon in terms of herdsmen and farmers’ crisis?
The challenges can be said to be economically and emotionally devastating although the Yoruba- Fulani clashes have been on for ages and the same can be said of Imeko; I can remember when I was a child when we went to the farm, we got to the farm to see cattle eating our cassava and other crops, but it wasn’t like this, it was not as rampant as we have it now.