AFENIFERE URGES GOVERNORS TO STRENGTHEN SECURITY IN SOUTH-WEST AMID BANDITS INFLUX
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The Afenifere group, which is pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political, has urged the governments of the South-West to strengthen regional security.
Following news of the bandit invasion of the South-West, the call was made.
Following a warning from Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde that bandits who had been ousted in northern Nigeria were camped in portions of Oyo State, the organization issued the call in a statement issued by Comrade Jare Ajayi, its National Publicity Secretary.
Speaking at Monday’s Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, 2025 annual interfaith service for workers, Makinde revealed that bandits who have been driven out of the North-West of Nigeria are infiltrating his state.
“During a security briefing this morning, I learned that some bad elements from the North-West are relocating here due to military heat in their zones,” Makinde said.
Reacting, Afenifere noted that the disclosure, coming from the Chief Security Officer of a state is not something to be treated with levity.
The organization therefore called on all the governors of the South-West to, “as a matter of urgency, hold a meeting to map out strategies to expel the bandits from the region and to ensure that such elements do not infiltrate Yorubaland at any time again”.
“For these objectives to be achieved, there is the need to carry certain groups along.
“These are the security agencies that will implement whatever security decisions are reached, traditional rulers and heads of local vigilantes known as ‘Ode’”, the statement said.
Afenifere went on to say that any tactics that were developed should include the use of current technologies to help identify the robbers and their hiding places, appealing rewards, and functional, up-to-date equipment for those who would be on the fields.
Ajayi finished by warning residents and security authorities to not take security lightly and that community leaders and traditional leaders in various regions of Yorubaland should not remain silent when they see any signs of a security concern.
“For example, until the governor made the revelation on Monday, such grave security danger was unknown to members of the public, yet there are people living in the Fashola area where the bandits were reported to have established a camp.
“It is not unlikely that similar camps could be found in some other parts of the South West, hence the need for urgent and effective action,” the statement added.
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