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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo outlines government efforts at tackling ethno-religious crisis in Nigeria
A few weeks ago, during the unfortunate incident that led to a crisis in Shasha area of Oyo State, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, delivered a powerful statement on the essence of unity and justice in society.
According to him, “Shasha market has been a melting pot for traders bringing foodstuff from the North to the Southwest for decades. Traders from the North have done business with their brothers from the Southwest and they have lived in peace and even inter-married. Shasha represents unity.”
The VP continued, “So when a disagreement arises between individuals or a criminal act is committed by one against the other we must ensure that we see it for what it is, a criminal act, which must be punished according to law. Not an ethnic conflict. Every Nigerian has a constitutional right to live, work and enjoy their lives in safety, peace under the law.”
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Director-General, Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, Mr Seye Oyeleye, raises issues of security, unity and strategic planning as instruments of development as he traces the origin of insecurity and banditry in the land in this interview with
WALE OYEWALE
DAWN focuses on development in the South-West, how well has the commission fulfilled its mandate under your watch?
DAWN has been a development organisation; that was why it was set up. That is what we have been doing throughout the region in several areas over the past few years, particularly in areas of education, financing, security and agriculture, such as regional cooperation in agriculture. Everything we do here is for the development trajectory of the region. DAWN is not a political organisation as you rightly know. We don’t do projects. It is an intellectual organisation and a lot of the things we have done have been passed across to the states. A lot of technical