Pan-Yoruba group, the Alliance of Yoruba Democratic Movements (AYDM) has asked the state governors of all the six states that constituted Nigeria's South-West region to set up a "Regional Security Trust Fund." The group made this call in a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by its General Secretary, Mr Popoola Ajayi, explaining the trust fund was necessary to address the rising insecurity in the region.
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The Inspector General of Police (IG) Kayode Egbetokun and the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Abiodun Oyebanji have been asked to as a matter of urgency, establish police stations in communities where traditional rulers were recently killed. A pan-Yoruba group, Alliance of Yoruba Democratic Movements (AYDM), also called for the immediate recruitment of indigenes of affected communities into the police, Department of State Services (DSS) and Amotekun for effective policing of the area.
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The Alliance of Yoruba Democratic Movements (AYDM) has urged all the traditional monarchs and rulers in Yoruba land, Southwest Nigeria to create local security outfits in their respective communities to battle incessant cases of killings and kidnappings. AYDM, an alliance of over 120 Pan-Yoruba groups, made this call in a statement issued on Wednesday, by AYDM General Secretary, Mr Popoola Ajayi, adding that security issues in the country had gone beyond what the people should expect only the government to solve.