A Yoruba diaspora socio-cultural organization, Yoruba Global Council, (YGC) has condemned, what it termed as a violent attack on the home of Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho.
It described the attack as provocative, barbaric and deliberate act to suppress the growing agitation for a Yoruba nation.
In a statement issued by its spokesperson, Prof Lere Amusan on Friday, the group said with the DSS revealing it organised the attack under the guise of seeking out stockpiled arms, “it may not be out of order to conclude that, considering the desperation with which the attack was staged, Sunday Igboho could as well have been killed if found during the operation.”
Registering that the reason given for the attack by the DSS was not convincing enough, YGC said, “it is baffling that herders who are known to be custodians of illegal arms even with Miyettiallah its leadership known to government, are not accused of stockpiling arms, rather it is a peaceful Sunday Igboho that the government considers too dangerous and deserve such unwarranted ,violent sting operation where lives were lost.”
Declaring that it is obvious, by the attack that the primary mission of government, alongside greedy politicians in the Southwest, is to suppress the growing agitation for the sovereignty of the Yoruba states from the existing country Nigeria, YGC said it is disturbed by the shrinking civic space, lingering social injustice and the dwindling democratic values in Nigeria.
“The attack on Igboho where lives were lost and many arrested, has exposed the fact that Nigeria is miles away from acceptable democratic norms,” the YGC stated, warning the government on the dire consequences of the attack on the fragile peace in the country.
The group, while reaffirming its support for the agitation for a Yoruba nation, stressed that Igboho should not be seen as a threat by any system that is fair, sincere, progressive and democratic.
It also warned that should the provocative attacks continue unchecked, the southwest may become another field for violence like it is being witnessed in other parts of the country, adding that, the world has become so civilised that it is needless to spill blood before agitating nations are granted sovereignty.
