By Funke Adekunle
The South West forests are occupied by strange people that should be flushed out, the Ooni of Ife, His Royal Majesty, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi (Ojaja 1) told President Mohammadu Buhari on Thursday.
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He also said Nigerians do not want war but would prepare peace building and conflict prevention.
The foremost traditional ruler spoke during his visit to Aso Rock where he met the President today.
Irohinoodua monitored the report.
He said “I came to speak on behalf of other traditional rulers. The issue at hand in the South West is real. The issue of insecurity, we that live in the remote and rural areas of the South Western part of the country, most of the bushes are occupied by strange people and we decided to work with the government to fish them out.”
According to him “Everybody is beating the drum of war, we don’t want war. Who can stand war. We want something better for our youths. We should better use them for something good other than shouting war and anarchy. We don’t want that.”
He said he told the President that and “he is on the same page with us.”
The Ooni said further “Politicians should be careful not to throw things out of proportion.
“We should make sure things are right and the President has given good directives to security chiefs including the IG to visit all traditional institutions in the south west. We shouldn’t keep over hyping war and we still want to keep the peace in the south west. We don’t want anarchy.”
He said “What is important is for the youths not to take laws into their hands, killing and causing violence. The drums of war is resonating loud and we are very worried. We need more federal apparatus to defend ourselves. Reinforcement from federal government.
“We understand more than anybody. We don’t want war and we want to work with Government to bring peace… We are not saying Fulanis are bad, it’s about the bad guys working under the name of Fulanis”
