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Customs/Herdsmen Killing: Ogun Residents Cries Out To Buhari
By Dayo Badmus
Residents of Ogun State have cried out to President Muhammadu Buhari over Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and Fulani Herdsmen killings in the state.
The Ogun State residents called on the President to put an end to incessant killings and youths unemployment threatening to destroy the Nation
The residents made the calls in separate town hall meetings organised by the Minister for Mines and Steels Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, in Ijebu-Ode, Ilaro and Abeokuta on last Friday.
Youths, women and elders of Ogun State bared their minds on ways to prevent a repeat of the recent #EndSARS protest that was peacefully planned and carried out.
Adegbite, who declared the meeting opened, told the people that President Buhari had sent his appointees back to their home states to feel the pulse of Nigerians in order to forestall a repeat of youths restiveness that could give birth to carnage, killings, arson and breakdown of law and order if it’s not well looked into
The residents of Ogun State who were in attendance said In their reactions, they lamented the spate of killings in Ogun State, especially in the border communities, blaming it on lack of infrastructures and unemployment for the recent crisis.
They decried the deplorable conditions of federal roads in the state, while adding that the people are hungry as a result of border closure which was done for no justifiable reason.
According to Adebiyi Adeyinka Tajudeen from Yewa South, customs officers have been killing Ogun Residents like goats, all in the name of chasing suspected smugglers.
Tajudeen alleged that many have been killed this year by the customs officers, begging the President to stop NCS officers from shooting within the communities if they fail to seize contraband at the borders.
Corroborating Tajudeen’s submission, one Hunponu Olamilekan explained that Fulani herdsmen have made farming unattractive to the people of the Gateway State.
According to Olamilekan, herdsmen have continued to destroy farms as their cows graze on crops.
“After destroying our crops, we have no right to talk. If we talk, these Fulani herdsmen will kill us like goats. Recently, they killed a father, his wife and three children in Oja-Odan, Yewa North. This is getting too much and nobody is doing anything about it,” Olamilekan lamented.
In his words, the former Chairman of Imeko-Afon Local Government, Hon. Tosin Adeluyi, called on the Federal Government to see to the development of border areas, saying the agency put in charge of that responsibility has not been doing anything in Ogun State.
Adeluyi said unemployment is the root cause of all social vices, and charged governments at all levels to keep the youths off the streets by getting them gainfully employed.
Responding, the Minister assured the people that their requests would get to the President.
