The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi has warned against calls for war
or anarchy over recent string of attacks in the southwest region, saying
“we don’t want war.”
After a meeting with President Mohammadu Buhari at the Presidential
Villa, the Oni was reacting to drum beats of war especially after the
death of Mrs Funke Olakunri, the daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben
Fasoranti, who was killed by an armed gang suspected to be herdsmen on
Kajola-Ore road, Ondo State.
“Everybody is beating the drum of war, we don’t want war, who can stand
war, we want something better for our youths. “We should better use
them for something good other than shouting war and anarchy. We don’t
want that.
“How to improve security. I came to speak on behalf of other traditional
rulers. The issue at hand in the South West is real. The issue of
insecurity, we that live in the remote and rural areas of the south
western part of the country, most of the bushes are occupied by strange
people and we decided to work with the government to fish them out.
“We told the President that 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 and the President has given good
directives to security chiefs including the IG to visit all traditional
institutions in the south west.” he said The Ooni stressed that
everything must be done to put all security agencies to good use and
work with the locals to separate the bad eggs.
According to him, “We shouldn’t keep over hyping war and we still want
to keep the peace in the south west. We don’t want anarchy.”