Protests: Probe killings, alleged foreign interests – Afenifere to Nigerian govt

The Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, has charged the Federal government to probe killings, alleged Foreign Interests and calls for military takeover during the nationwide #Enbadgovernance protest in the country.

The group made this call in a communique issued after its Expanded National Executive Committee meeting and signed by its national leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo and National Publicity Secretary, Prince Justice Faloye.

The group urged the Tinubu’s administration to investigate the deliberate violation of rights, especially the circumstances of the killing of those who died in the protests and bring to justice those including security agents proven to be culpable.

It also charged the federal government not to take lightly but to investigate the alleged involvement of foreign interests as threats to Nigeria’s sovereignty and the treasonable calls for military intervention in the political affairs of the nation, the proof of which should attract the full wrath of the law.

Afenifere, while speaking on threats to residents, and non-indigenes, said governments at all levels should rise against the threats to any group in any part of the country, immediately investigate and decisively deal with those found culpable, because of its implications for the security, unity and corporate existence of Nigeria.

It stressed the right of every Nigerian citizen to reside in any part of Nigeria of his choice.

The group also noted that Nigerians were massively resident in every state or geopolitical zone irrespective of their ethnic identities.

It equally applauded President Bola Tinubu’s decision to address the nation, during the protest.

The group said, “Government and its agents responded with threats and intimidation of the organizers, made a caricature of revered traditional institutions, exploiting ethnic and religious divisions.

“Afenifere urges President Tinubu to see the nationwide protest, the diversity of its prosecution and outcome in different regions, as a clear verdict for the restructuring of the Nigerian Federation in tandem with the well-considered foundational covenant of true federalism and in honest demonstration of statesmanship immediately set in motion irreversible machinery in this regards as the panacea for the unity, peaceful coexistence and development of a nation where no man, woman or tribe is oppressed.”