The Aare Ona Kaknfo-in-Council has disclosed that suspected ISIS operatives and terrorists are now hibernating in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State.
The council made the disclosure in a communique issued on Sunday after its extraordinary meeting presided over by the Ààrẹ Ọ̀nà Kakaǹfò of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on the state of the Yoruba nation in particular and issues affecting Nigeria in general.
The communique read in parts, “The Ààrẹ Ona Kakanfo-in- Council has in its possession credible intelligence, gathered from within and outside the country which strongly indicates the infiltration of terrorists and killer Fulani herdsmen in the region.
“More worrisome, the intelligence report also reveals that suspected ISIS operatives have already positioned themselves in Niger State via Ìbàrùbáland and are now within the Òkè-ògùn corridor of Ọ̀yọ́ State.
“Indeed, the intel also reveal that about 500 power bikes and assorted armour belonging to the terrorists have been physically sighted along the abandoned Lusada route moving towards Sokoto, from Igbó-ọrà in Ọ̀yọ́ State.”
It urged all South-West governors, as well as the their counterparts in Kwara and Kogi states, to emulate Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State by directing their citizens to apply for gun licence for self-defence against the marauding terrorists and killer herdsmen.
It also urged the Federal Government to take urgent steps to secure Nigeria’s borders with neighbouring West African countries with a view to stopping the illegal entry of killer herdsmen and other criminals into the country.
