Insecurity: Osun APC chieftain asks FG to consider 2014 confab report

By Richard Akintade, Osogbo

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State, Oluomo Sunday Akere has said that insecurity in the state is not a product of political struggle but rise in value decadence across the country.

He also urged the Federal Government to revisit the 2014 CONFAB report to deescalate the spate of insecurity in the country.

Addressing journalists at the Osun State NUJ Correspondents’ Chapel in Osogbo the state capital, Akere said many of the security crises in the state were due to wrangling among different cult groups in some towns in the state.

According to him, “apart from occasional issues of kidnappings on highways, majority of security challenges bedeviling the state is superiority clash among cultist and sometimes transport unions, am cautioning residents not to ascribe the situation to politics.

“Many times when police get to various crimes scenes in the state, they ended up revealing that most of the suspects are cultists. The crisis has nothing to do with the perceived crisis between Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and his predecessor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.”

Akere said, ” in some of the towns, superiority clash among cultist lead to upheaval and the state government has recently put in place mechanism to keep the cultist off the street with a view to ensuring that lives and properties of the state populace are secured.

“There is security breaches in Lagos, Oyo, Kwara and many other states, will one said it is because of an misunderstanding between Oyetola and Aregbesola? It is a Nigerian problem that demand holistic approach.”

Reacting to agitations for secession, the former Osun Commissioner for Information and Strategy said the Federal Government could douse the rising tension by revisiting the 2014 Constitutional Conference Report which had yet to be opened.

“There is too much power at the central and the Federal Government, FG must shed responsibilities to the federating units. We must restructure, the National Assembly should take responsibility of either look at the 2014 CONFAB report or conduct a referendum on the need to restructure and safe the country from further slipping into crisis,” he concluded.