The Oodua Peoples Congress has warned the Boko Haram
sect not to extend its activities to the South-West region to avoid
reprisals capable of causing chaos in the country.
The Chairman of OPC in Oyo State, Mr. Adekunle Lawal,
spoke at Mapo Hall, Ibadan on Friday after the inauguration of the
local committees of the Congress in the 33 councils in the state.
Lawal warned that the Congress would not wait for
government to appeal for calm if the Boko Haram carry its reported
threats to attack some places in the South-West.
He said, “We have been reliably informed that the
Boko Haram sect are contemplating to bomb Cocoa House and the University
of Ibadan which are the legacies of the Yoruba race.
“The Boko Haram claims to be an Islamic sect and we
have a large number of Muslims in the South-West. As a Muslim, I know
that the religion abhors killing of fellow human beings as they are now
doing in the North by bombing churches and markets on a daily basis.
This is totally unacceptable.”
The OPC chief advised the sect to make its grievances
known to the government with a view to addressing them rather than
threatening the peace of the nation.
He said the committees had been mandated to see to
the security of lives and property of the people in their areas of
jurisdiction.
Meanwhile, Osun State traditional rulers have
advocated concerted efforts between government and the citizenry to stem
the rising tide of insecurity in the country.
This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end
of the second quarterly meeting of the Osun Divisional Conference of
Obas, which met at the palace of the Ataoja of Osogbo on Sunday.
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