Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben
Fasoranti, whose daughter, Mrs Funke Olakunrin, was killed by an armed gang on
the Kajola-Ore road, Ondo State, on Friday July 12, has raised an alarm over
the state of Nigeria.
He spoke on Sunday when former
Ogun governor, Gbenga Daniel, and other sympathisers paid him a condolence
visit.
In a video obtained on Monday, Fasoranti, who was in tears, said in Yoruba, that the country was at
war, and that Fulani herdsmen were scaring people and occupying farmlands
across the nation.
His words: “May God continue to
protect us because we are at war. When we go to the farm we meet them
(herdsmen) there; that even scares us. We cannot go to our fathers’ land again.
“If we plant crops, they
(herdsmen) won’t allow it be. So we must continue to pray and may God continue
to answer our prayers.”
Earlier, on Saturday, President
Muhammadu Buhari was in phone contact with the Yoruba leader.
A statement by his spokesman,
Femi Adesina, said Buhari condoled with the grieving nonagenarian, wishing him
the comfort of God, and fortitude to bear the great loss.
“He also assured that security
agencies would spare no effort to apprehend the culprits, and bring them to
justice”, it added.
On Sunday, Vice President, Prof.
Yemi Osinbajo stated that the Federal Government was doing everything possible
to improve the nation’s security architecture to ensure the protection of lives
and property.
Osinbajo during his visit to
Fasoranti, said: “We are looking at the whole security architecture and trying
to scale up and ensure that we are able to protect the lives and properties of
Nigerians.
“Security in a big country like
Nigeria, as you can imagine the challenge, is dynamic and we also have to be
consistently dynamic to ensure that we are able to beat the challenges as they
appear,’’ he said.
Osinbajo recalled how Buhari
recently met the service chiefs and the Inspector General of Police (IGP),
Mohammed Adamu, during which the latter laid out a new policy of the community
policing.
“One of the most important things
in this sort of crime, because they are largely economic crimes, is that people
try to make money by kidnapping.
‘‘Another important thing is
intelligence gathering; that is why we have the community policing system where
policemen would be trained in their own local governments and they would remain
there.
“This is as close as we get to
the community policing structure that we expect to have while we are engaging
the Army so that there will be a bit of more military presence especially along
the roads.’’
Osinbajo disclosed that the IGP
had already committed to ensuring that there was full coverage by the police
and even helicopters.
“This is to fasten the search for
these killers and also to ensure that there is adequate police presence to deter
this kind of terrible situation from re-occurring,’’ he said.
He expressed hope that there
would be peace and calm as “some of the steps taken begin to come into
fruition’’.
On his part, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,
national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) described the incident
as seriously unacceptable.
Tinubu expressed concern about
insecurity in the country and its challenges, which he said, must be faced
squarely.
“The security challenges are
numerous across the country. We have to fight it. More police are being
recruited but it will take time to train and deploy them to various areas.
“Additional police patrols and
security reinforcements are necessary along Ore Road and other black spots.
“We have discussed it among the
various authorities and the governor is eminently aware and being proactive
about it.
“We also have to fight poverty,
unemployment and other causes that might lead people to crime and equally create
opportunities to convert this tragedy to prosperity,’’ he said.
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