Insecurity’ll End If FG Treats Bandits Like Igboho, Kanu — Afenifere

Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Tuesday, lambasted
the Federal Government for hunting secessionist agitators in the
country.

According to the group, insecurity would have ended should the
regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.),
treated bandits and terrorists the way it has been treating Yoruba
Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho; and leader of the
proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Jare Ajayi, made this
known in a statement on Tuesday. The group was reacting to the
arrest of Igboho in Benin Republic and his impending extradition to
Nigeria.

Recall that the Federal Government of Nigeria through INTERPOL
got Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho and his wife, who is a German
citizen, arrested on Monday night at an airport in Benin Republic,
one of Nigeria’s neighbouring countries in the West African
sub-region. Igboho was arrested while he tried to catch a flight to
Germany with his wife.

Reacting, the Afenifere spokesman said that the news of the
arrest was a surprise but the body is still studying the situation
before making a formal statement as details of the arrest is still
sketchy.

He was however quick to add that security agencies appear to be
more active in hunting those who are peacefully agitating for the
rights and better deals for their people than they appear to be in
dealing with bandits and terrorists who have deprived thousands of
innocent Nigerians of their lives and properties.

“If half of the energy deployed to apprehend (leader of the
proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra) Nnamdi Kanu, and Sunday
Igboho had been deployed to the menace of terrorists and bandits
who kill, rape, rob and kidnap people, we would not have been in
the unfortunate security mess that we are presently.”

Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Tuesday, lambasted
the Federal Government for hunting secessionist agitators in the
country.

According to the group, insecurity would have ended should the
regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.),
treated bandits and terrorists the way it has been treating Yoruba
Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho; and leader of the
proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Jare Ajayi, made this
known in a statement on Tuesday. The group was reacting to the
arrest of Igboho in Benin Republic and his impending extradition to
Nigeria.

Recall that the Federal Government of Nigeria through INTERPOL
got Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho and his wife, who is a German
citizen, arrested on Monday night at an airport in Benin Republic,
one of Nigeria’s neighbouring countries in the West African
sub-region. Igboho was arrested while he tried to catch a flight to
Germany with his wife.

Reacting, the Afenifere spokesman said that the news of the
arrest was a surprise but the body is still studying the situation
before making a formal statement as details of the arrest is still
sketchy.

He was however quick to add that security agencies appear to be
more active in hunting those who are peacefully agitating for the
rights and better deals for their people than they appear to be in
dealing with bandits and terrorists who have deprived thousands of
innocent Nigerians of their lives and properties.

“If half of the energy deployed to apprehend (leader of the
proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra) Nnamdi Kanu, and Sunday
Igboho had been deployed to the menace of terrorists and bandits
who kill, rape, rob and kidnap people, we would not have been in
the unfortunate security mess that we are presently.”