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CALL ON UNARMED NIGERIANS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES: Magashi, Defence minister under fire
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…Magashi said nothing wrong – Brig-Gen. Ikponmwen (retd)
By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South; Dapo Akinrefon & Rotimi Ojomoyela
MINISTER of Defence, General Bashir Magashi, faced barrage of criticisms, weekend, over his proclamation that weaponless Nigerians should defend themselves against bandits.
Angry reactions have continued to trail the remarks credited to the Minister of Defence, Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd) asking Nigerians to defend themselves whenever they were attacked by bandits and other criminal elements.
The Minister of Defence, while reacting to the kidnap of students in Niger State had tasked Nigerians to defend themselves.
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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â¢Donât turn security challenges into ethnic, tribal, religious crisis, Tinubu begs Nigerians
Charles Ajunwa and Bennett Oghifo in Lagos, Chuks Okocha in Abuja
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, yesterday said citizens do not need the permission of his Ondo State counterpart, Rotimi Akeredolu, to live in the forests in the South-west state.
The Bauchi governor, who spoke on a television programme, was apparently referring to herdsmen accused of sundry crimes such as kidnappings, killings, rape, amongst others, by Akeredolu, and ordered to vacate the stateâs forest reserves
The Bauchi governor added that Nigerians do not need the consent of any governor to reside anywhere in the country.