Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, hinted yesterday that war could break
out in the country unless the worsening state of insecurity is curbed.
The monarch gave the warning after he met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He told reporters following the closed-door meeting that he was at
the villa on behalf of traditional rulers “to speak to the president
with a view to tackling the fragile security situation in the country.”
He said: “Everybody is beating the drums of war. We don’t want war.
Who can stand war? We want something better for our youths. We had
better use them for something good rather than shouting war and anarchy.
We don’t want that.
“The issue of insecurity in the southwest is real. In the remote and
rural areas of the southwest, most of the bushes are now occupied by
strange people. We, therefore, decided to work with the government to
fish them out.
“We told that to the president and he is on the same page with us.
Politicians should be careful not to throw things out of proportion. We
should make sure things are right. The president has given good
directives to security chiefs including the Inspector General of Police
to visit all traditional institutions in the southwest.”
The Ooni said care must be taken so that exuberant youths do not
“take the laws into their hands and go into all those places and start
killing and maiming. We don’t want that. The drums of war are resonating
too much and we are very worried.
“We need more federal apparatus to defend ourselves and reinforcement
from the Federal Government. We understand more than anybody. We don’t
want war and we want to work with the government to bring peace.”
On the alleged stigmatisation of the Fulani, he noted: “We are not
saying all Fulani are bad. It’s about the bad guys working under the
name of Fulani. It is not about stigmatisation; it is about separating
the corn from the chaff. A lot of them are mixed up with the good ones.
We are not saying all Fulani are bad; it’s about the miscreants hiding
under the name of Fulani.”
This came as Buhari blamed rising security challenges in Africa on
illegal financial activities, even as he charged intelligence and
security agencies to tighten the noose on illicit flows.
He stated this in a keynote address at the opening session of the
16th Conference of the Committee of Intelligence and Security Services
of Africa (CISSA)
“Frankly, we may never know the true extent of the damage. Estimates,
however, suggest that African countries lose over $60 billion annually
due to illicit financial outflows, a staggering amount for a continent
in dire need of development finance.”
The president also challenged the conference to put measures in place
that would ensure terrorists and criminals are denied access to
financial systems. According to him, “Criminals and their collaborators
cheat the system through various practices, including trade mispricing,
trade mis-invoicing, tax abuse, and evasion, as well as money
laundering.
“Several unfair commercial agreements and illegal resource extraction
by multinational companies, in cahoots with their local collaborators,
also create routes for illicit financial outflows.”
In his remarks, the chairman of the African Union Commission, Musa
Faki Mahamat, said terrorism and radicalisation sponsored by illicit
flows continuously affect growth on the continent, while ethnicity and
religious diversities have been exploited for political gains.
Represented by the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security,
Smail Chergui, he said the Internet has been used as a valid platform
for recruitment of people into criminal activities, even as terrorists
now use sophisticated technology like drones.
But former President Goodluck Jonathan was optimistic that insecurity, especially in Nigeria, would be contained.
At a book presentation and launch of the Nicholas Okoh Foundation in
Abuja yesterday, Jonathan said he believed that “the challenges we are
having now will be subdued. Political and traditional leaders are
talking and I believe the country will get out of this level of
insecurity.”
On the same issue, the Primate of the Anglican Communion, Nicholas
Okoh, appealed to the government to act expeditiously. He also urged
“individuals not to take security initiatives because if we take our own
security initiative, the country will be destroyed. The people that
have the constitutional responsibility to maintain security should do so
and quickly too before things get out of hand.”
While proffering solutions, ex-military intelligence officer and
presidential candidate of Grassroots Development Party of Nigeria (GDPN)
in the 2019 general election, Dr. Davidson Isibor, stressed the need
for government to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the conflicts in
the country and situate them appropriately before taking any step to
address them.
“We are not likely going to win the war, if we continue to politicise
it, ascribe ethnic sentiments and trade accusations and
counter-accusations. Rather, we should characterise the conflict and
give it a name. We must know those behind it and how their activities
are affecting our nation. If they are foreigners and illegal immigrants,
then let’s understand the fact that Nigeria is being invaded and we are
under war and it must be treated and handled as such and not
politicised.
In this wise, we must all rise up as a nation and in unity to defend our fatherland from foreign invasion.”
Another retired military officer, Col. Tony Nyiam, urged Buhari to
change the heads of the armed forces and address the frustration of
other senior military officers over stalled promotion.
He said: “The staying put of the service chiefs is a breach of the
armed forces or related military act, and a breach of the 1999
Constitution. The instance of repeatedly not abiding by the law, which
the president is inclined to, undermines the rule of law. This is a
major cause of tension and in turn, poses challenges to national
security.”
Meanwhile, the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria
(CAN), Samson Ayokunle, has challenged the members of the Miyetti Allah
Cattle Breeders Association to call the violent ones among them to
order, saying this is the only way people could trust them again.
The association also urged Buhari to treat the letter by former
President Olusegun Obasanjo with all sense of responsibility considering
the issues raised in it.
Obasanjo had earlier in the week warned that the nation could collapse unless insecurity is checkmated.
Speaking to journalists yesterday in Abuja, Ayokunle said nobody
hated Fulani herdsmen until they began to kill everybody. “If there is
an enemy of any Fulani man, the Fulani man created the enemy for
himself. They have been living with us for many years in our
communities. Our children married them. They married our children. But
they became too violent and started carrying AK47s, killing people. Let
them call their people to order and ensure that they remove the enmity
they have created around the average Fulani person.”
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