The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has expressed grief over the killings of innocent souls of people of Igangan in the Ibarapa North local government area of Oyo State by suspected Fulanis herdsmen
It will be recalled that Fulanis herdsmen reportedly launched a violent attack on the Oyo North community as and in the process scores of residents were killed, while several houses including the Palace of Ashi of Igangan was burnt by the herdsmen.
Oba Adeyemi in a statement on Monday by his Director of Media and Publicity, Bode Durojaiye, also described the burning of the Palace of Ashi of Igangan community as a “taboo”.
According to the monarch, the challenges of peace and security must as a matter of urgency be topmost priority of the government and relevant stakeholders.
Oba Adeyemi lamented that Nigeria’s ethnic, sectional and religious diversities ought to serve as source of national unity, cohesion and integration, but has over the years constituted serious threat to peace, security, and national development.
He however urged security agencies to employed native intelligence services in a bid to effectively tackle critical security challenges confronting the country.
“Security of any country is critical for the development, economic prosperity and democratic principles to thrive; hence the critical issue is the way a country deploys its strategic security responses to protect the citizens.”
