The Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to consider the insecurity situation in the country as warlike which requires recalling retired intelligent officers to compliment the efforts of existing security organs to end the war.
This was said in a statement by the group on Friday, obtained by POLITICS NIGERIA.
The statement reads in part: “Apart from the bomb blast that happened in Maiduguri on the day President Buhari visited that city on Thursday, the Nigerian Immigration Services, also revealed in a letter to its border posts dated December 23, 2021, that terrorists from Mali had planned to attack Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
“The above are aside kidnapping, killing, arson and burning of vehicles conveying people from one place to another as it happened on Kaduna highway and in Borno and Katsina States recently.
“The near daily occurrence of kidnapping in Ondo, Ekiti, Osun, Imo States among others is intolerable.
“The President must come out openly to give an ultimatum of two weeks to those carrying arms illegally to lay down their arms.
“Within the period, retired intelligent officers should be encouraged to report at the military formations nearest to them with a view to reintegrating them back into the system.
“Needed weapons and incentives must be provided just as the intelligence units within the security organs be rejigged to weed out the fifth columnists in the army.”