The leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress and the Aare Ona kakanfo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams, says terrorists are now hiding in forests in Ogun and Osun states in order to unleash terror in the south-west.
Adams, in a statement he signed and made available to the media by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, said the terrorists were in-between Osu forest and Ile Ife, in Osun State, and the forests between Abeokuta and Ibadan.
He advised the governors to hold an emergency security meeting with stakeholders across the region to forestall the calamity.
He also charged the governors to recruit at least 150 local security personnel in each local government to protect the communities, saying he was willing to offer assistance.
“Nothing guarantees safety in any country or region other than the synergy and cooperation among all the stakeholders,” he said.
Calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to quickly stop the “drift into destruction,” Adams said series of serious security breaches in the country in the last few months meant that all was not well with security in the country.
“President Buhari can use his executive powers to allow the immediate establishment of state police with a mandate to flush out all the terrorists stationed in strategic places in the country.
“The president has about 10 months left in office. This is the time to redeem his image. Nigerians believe, and rightly so, that without high-level conspiracy with these terrorists, the blood-thirsty maniacs will not have the audacity and insolent boldness to be attacking Nigerians everywhere.”
Terrorist sect in the country has become emboldened in recent months with attacks recorded in some parts of Abuja. The Kuje prison attack is prominent among such with over 50 Boko haram terrorists said to have been free.
OduNews had also reported that Bandits and Boko Haram terrorists have threatened to carry out further attacks in Abuja, Lagos and Katsina states respectively.
