Gani Adams Seeks Govt’s Nod To Flush Out Bandits From Lagos-Ibadan Forest

The Aareonakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, has urged governors of Oyo, Ogun and Lagos states to allow the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and the South West Security Stakeholders Group (SSSG) flush out kidnappers from their hideouts along the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way.

Adams, in a statement by his special assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, expressed concern over the incessant attacks on travellers plying the ever busy Lagos-Ibadan road.

He said since the police had failed to honour the earlier arrangements to provide effective security along the road, saying it was pertinent to ask Governors Seyi Makinde, Dapo Abiodun and Babajide Sanwo-Olu to allow the OPC and Amotekun and other security groups like the Hunters, Vigilante, COMSAIC, Isokan Oodua under the auspices of the SSSG to get rid of terrorists from the bushes.

Expressing worry at the increasing spate of insecurity along the road, Iba Adams stated further that the only way out of the quagmire was to allow the OPC to face the battle for the restoration of peace along the road.

“There has been an abnormal surge in cases of kidnapping along the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way.

‘’The information at my disposal indicates the surge in the numbers of terrorists and kidnappers hiding at Sapade, a 62. km town to Ibadan. Kidnappers are now having a field day, even as it is obvious that the police couldn’t help the prevailing situation,’’ he said.