POLITICS: Yoruba Groups To Rally Against Killings, Kidnapping In Southwest

Yoruba socio-cultural group, Yoruba Koya Movement, has declared tomorrow
as a national day of protest against the ongoing killings and kidnapping across
Yoruba-speaking states, including Kogi and Kwara.
The “June 12 Otoge rally” is backed by a Yoruba intelligentsia group, Voice of
Reason (VOR), and 26 other socio-cultural and self-determination groups.
It will hold in all state capitals of Ondo, Oyo, Ekiti, Lagos, Osun, Ogun, Kogi and
Kwara states simultaneously.
In a statement yesterday, the group’s National Director of Publicity, Mr.
Maxwell Adeleke, said the rally is aimed at presenting the “Yoruba Charter of
Demands to the government of Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN) and to also
present a Public Petition to the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU),
African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States
(ECOWAS) over the ongoing killings in Southern and Middle Belt Nations of
Nigeria”.
The statement added that the rally is being organised to “reawaken the people
of Yoruba-speaking states to be conscious of the agenda of some ethnic
warlords and reactionaries outside their domain to capture their land and
enslave them while masquerading as visitors and to enjoin all governors in
Yoruba speaking states to integrate towards economic, social and political
development of Yorubaland and to encourage them to make the security of
lives and properties of their people utmost priority”.
“The rally is meant to encourage Yoruba legislators both at the state and
national assemblies to endorse, support and move motions that will expressly
indicate where the Yoruba stands,” the statement said.
The rally, billed to begin at 9am, will hold simultaneously at Gani Fawehinmi
Park, Lagos; Ibadan Military Cenotaph, Opposite Government House, Agodi,
Ibadan, Oyo State and Pansheke Roundabout, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Other locations are, Fajuyi Roundabout, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State; Nelson Mandela
Freedom Park, Osogbo, Osun State; Alagbaka Roundabout, opposite First
Bank, Akure, Ondo State; Kabba Township Stadium, Kabba, Kogi State and

Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Ilorin, Kwara State.

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