The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Eniitan Ogunwusi has called for the provision of statutory community policing policy to motivate traditional rulers to work with the government to mitigate the current insecurity in the country.
The monarch, who condemned the heinous attack on three monarchs in Ekiti State, leading to the death of two of them, said traditional rulers were better equipped with ancestral power that are efficacious till date and capable of incapacitating the criminals troubling Nigeria.
Oba Ogunwusi in a statement released yesterday by his director of media and public affairs, Otunba Moses Olafare, insisted that traditional rulers remained the closest leaders to the people, saying that monarchs were not cowardly but only needed to be statutorily involved.
He said, “We know the traditional techniques to get rid of all these unfortunate situations. We are no cowards and we are ready to rise to the occasion defending our traditional land. Get us statutorily involved and see that what we inherited from our respective ancestors are still intact and real.”
He commiserated with families of the deceased monarchs, the people of Imojo-Ekiti and Esun-Ekiti, the government and Ekiti State council of Obas and Chiefs, describing the incident as a sacrilegious audacity deliberately planned and executed to undermine security capacity of Nigeria.
