Restructuring of Nigeria in line with the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference is the best solution to the security and other problems rocking the Country.
This is the position of the Yoruba Unity Forum, YUF, which condemned the killing of Mrs Olufunke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere National Leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, as unacceptable.
In a statement titled “Mrs. Funke Olakunrin’s Killing is baseless, mindless and grossly unacceptable” and signed by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Lanre Ogundipe, it reiterated the call for the “total restructuring of the country, as that in our well informed opinion, is the panacea to the myriads of problems confronting a disjointed and faulty union like Nigeria’s.’
Noting that failure to adhere to the restructuring principles threaten the future of the country, it said: ‘Without immediate restructuring along the lines of the 2014 National Conference Resolutions, the continued existence of Nigeria as one country is very much open to doubt.’
It said: “The Yoruba Unity Forum (YUF) received with shock, sadness and trepidation, the news of the unfortunate killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Yoruba statesman and Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, by suspected Fulani herdsmen, at Ore junction, on her way from Akure.
While YUF commiserates with the revered Yoruba elder, his family, both nuclear and extended, and indeed all of Yorubaland, on this unfortunate, yet preventable death, and sincerely pray that the gentle soul of Mrs. Olakunrin finds peace with her Maker, we’re constrained to lay the entire blame of her sad demise on the doorstep of President Muhammadu Buhari.
We know for a fact, that the Buhari government’s kid-gloves treatment of the murderous excesses of these herdsmen is enough fillip for their continued killing of innocent souls, especially in places opposed to their archaic, backward, and crude method of pastoralism, hence, we see Mrs. Olakunrin’s murder, as another series, in that devilish plot of theirs.
Again, we’re alarmed by the claim that Mrs. Olakunrin’s killing was a failed armed robbery attack, for we’re yet to see where armed robbers, whose primary motive is to dispossess victims of their belongings, will kidnap or riddle the same victim’s car with bullets. YUF finds this claim spineless, and absolutely ill thought.”
It said: ‘As a Yoruba nation, we’re deeply saddened by this killing, and many that have become daily occurrences.”
