A SOUTH-WEST socio-political group, Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, has cautioned indigenes of the South, especially in the South-West to be extremely careful about their travel plan to the northern region because of escalating state of insecurity in the North.
President of Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, Mr. Akin Malaolu, yesterday, said the decision to warn southerners against travelling to the North was based on recent development on insecurity, which showed that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration had lost all its strategies to bring to bear the hellish brigandage that has remained in motion defying solutions.
IN a separate development, a separatist organisation seeking self-determination for Yoruba Nation, the Ilana Omo Oodua, has finalised arrangements to hold a mega rally in Lagos State on July 3, 2021 to further its agitation for the secession of Oodua Republic from Nigeria.
The Ilana Omo Oodua said it had written to the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), African Union (AU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), United Kingdom (UK) and United States (U.S.) to attend the Lagos rally as observers.
In a statement, yesterday, the General Secretary, George Akinola, promised that the rally would be peaceful and co-ordinated.
BUT when contacted, Spokesman of Lagos Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, said he was not aware if the group had applied for permission to hold rally in the state on July 3. “I will revert and call back,” he said.
HOWEVER, Chairman, Afenifere Renewal Group, Mr. Wale Oshun, urged the police to grant the group necessary protection during the rally, saying, it is their rights to be protected by the police.
Malaolu enjoined the police and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to ensure maximum protection for the group and urged the international bodies or media to show interest on that rally day to prevent another untoward experience like the #EndSARS saga.