Date: 2020-03-05

Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, yesterday asked Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to key into the Amotekun security project initiated by the south- west governors. The group made the call after a meeting of its Kwara State chapter held in Ilorin, the state capital.

Afenifere in a statement signed by the chairman and publicity secretary of the Kwara State chapter, Hon. Lekan Alabi and Comrade Adeleye Adebayo, respectively, said that, "apart from the cultural and linguistic affinity of Kwara State with the South West states, the ravaging herdsmen have caged many of our communities and subjected them to avoidable trauma, just as it was being done to our kits and kins in the South West Yoruba states. Our farms are being ravaged with impunity by the herdsmen and we have become prisoners in our land.

"In the light of above, we call on Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to key into the Amotekun security project as proposed by the Yoruba states. This will prevent unnecessary loss of lives, loss of property and anguish that herdsmen/community clashes could bring".