THE Ogun State House of Assembly yesterday urged the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice to secure a court order that would enable the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members from the state to be posted to violence-free parts of the country.This followed a motion passed by the lawmakers during their plenary in response to the killing of innocent persons, particularly in the North.
The legislators were reacting to the killings in Jos, the Plateau State capital, and some other towns in the state in which scores of residents were murdered by members of the Boko Haram sect and Fulani herdsmen.
The motion called for a court order that would mandate the NYSC national secretariat to redeploy Ogun indigenes to safe regions. Remmy Hazzan (Odogbolu) moved the motion, with support from many lawmakers.
Hazzan noted that urgent steps should be taken to protect the youths.
“The Attorney-General must get an order of a court of competent jurisdiction within days to compel NYSC authorities to redeploy Ogun State indigenes posted to violence-prone states in the North to safe locations,” Hazzan said.
Adijat Adeleye-Oladapo (Ifo II), Job Akintan (Yewa North II) and many lawmakers supported the motion.
They said incessant killings in the North are frightening and that there is need to pull Ogun State indigenes from death zones.
A former Minister of Power and Steel, Elder Wole Oyelese, yesterday alleged that there are strange movements of people in the Southwest.
He urged the Federal Government and security agencies to avert a bloodbath in the region.
In a statement in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain advised the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on Immigration and Customs along the nation’s borders, especially in the North.
By acting fast, Oyelese said the nation would keep terrorists away from Nigeria, cut their line of supply as well as prevent future attacks on innocent citizens.
Though he said the decision would negatively affect neighbouring countries in the North, the former minister added that the step is necessary because of the incessant killings in the North.
He said: “This is what emergencies are all about. There is no time for sentiment or a situation to play the big brother.”
In the face of escalating insecurity, Oyelese noted that it would be foolhardy for any Nigerian to remain complacent.
The former minister wondered when military hardware and bullet proof vests became part of the paraphernalia of Fulani herdsmen.
He said: “Given what has just happened in Plateau State, it is now more than ever clear that our country is under invasion and the government, if it must survive, must wake up and take decisive action. We cannot lose any more of our citizens.”
Oyelese said it would be unwise to still believe that the Boko Haram insurgency is a Nigerian affair.
According to him, it is obvious that some foreigners are capitalising on the lack of patriotism among many Nigerians as well as the failing system to unleash terror on the country.
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