'Most Okada Riders In Oyo State Spying For Bandits & Foreign Kidnappers' - Amotekun Chairman Says

 

The Chairman, Western States Security Network, codenamed: Amotekun in Oyo State, Gen. Kunle Togun (rtd), has raised the caution that most business motorcyclists in the state are spies for ruffians and desperados that have entered the Yoruba land from the permeable lines of Nigeria. 

He said the outsiders who were carried inside trailers into Oyo State among different States during the COVID-19 lockdown couldn't communicate in any Nigerian language, however French at whatever point confronted by his men. 

Togun indicated that the admonition from the state Governor to customary bosses to quit assigning terrains to herders without any papers demonstrating Nigerian ethnicity would go far to stem the spate of killings and grabbing in Yorubaland. 

Gen. Togun who was reacting to inquiries from newsmen in his office at the state Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, yesterday, said the insatiable idea of some conventional and local area pioneers in numerous Yoruba towns prompted high pace of instability, which he stated, Amotekun has been controling. 

His words: "Before Amotekun was set up, the issue of Yorubaland since the attack of the land by these herders has been our customary bosses and pioneers in Yorubaland, they take cash, cows and vehicles from these individuals, and permit them to settle and unleash devastation in their areas." 

"I have gone to gatherings of Obas in Oke-Ogun and I advised them to quit offering terrains to outsiders, these herders are called Bororos in Oke-Ogun and Ibarapa zones, they are not Nigerians, what's going on ought not be investigated in the region of religion, it is regional development." 

"Their chiefs contend about the ECOWAS Free Movement law, however the one I am mindful of is that anyone from ECOWAS nation can go into another ECOWAS country without a visa yet you can't remain there for over ninety days at a stretch, a portion of these individuals have been possessing our property for quite a long time and they are not Nigerians." 

"The greater part of them that were unloaded here by trailers during the Covid-19 lockdown have gone to Okada riders, many are conveying handcarts everywhere, selling carrots, orange and the rest, the Okada riders are their covert operatives, we have noticed that and we are dealing with government strategy that will abridge the utilization of these individuals to instigate emergency in Oyo State and the Yorubaland in general." 

Togun noticed that Nigerians are the most security oblivious individuals on the planet as he added that even the adjoining Benin Republic has a data set and is safer on the grounds that as indicated by him, security should be everyone's business. 

He said those that normal Amotekun to flop in Oyo State ought to be embarrassed as the outfit would keep on being the pride of all Yoruba individuals at home and in the diaspora, encouraging the individuals of the State to keep on placing their trust and backing in the outfit.