By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
THE Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, has called for a decisive federal government action to rid the nation’s forests of criminals making them their attack launching pads on citizens.
Speaking to State House correspondents after meeting behind closed doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja, weekend, Governor Abiodun said even though there were people who legitimately reside in the forests, they have also become the habitation of criminals stoking ethnic tensions around the country.
He admonished local northern traditional leaders residing (Serikis) residing in the state to keep registers of farmers so as to determine when undesirable strangers infiltrate their ranks.
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Farmers/Herders clash: Implement assembly recommendations, former lawmaker urges Gov Abiodun
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Mr Job Akintan, a former lawmaker in Ogun, has appealed to Gov. Dapo Abiodun to implement recommendations of the state 5
th Assembly on crisis between farmers and herders in the state.
Akintan, a former Minority Leader in the Ogun House of Assembly, made the appeal in a statement in Abeokuta on Tuesday.
He said that the implementation of the recommendations would assist in bringing lasting solution to the crisis.
Akintan recalled that a committee headed by the former Deputy Speaker, Tokunbo Oshin, was set up by the 5
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has called on Nigerians to shun calls for division, insurgency, banditry and all inter-ethnic, religious and politically motivated wranglings capable of disintegrating the country.
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Elders in the country have said the best way to celebrate the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day would have been for President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the service chiefs and rejig the entire security architecture, following worsening insecurity in the country.
They said there was nothing to celebrate in this year’s Remembrance Day because of the President’s inability to address the numerous problems confronting living members of the Armed Forces, especially the frontline troops.
The elders in a statement, yesterday, vowed to begin imminent mobilisation of Nigerians against the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, if it fails to immediately prevail on the president to act swiftly on restructuring of security architecture to save the country from further misfortunes.