Yoruba community in Ghana condemns govt over Lekki shootings

President of the Greater Accra of the Yoruba Community Ghana, Amb. Oloye O. Fatuyi FIIM

The leadership of the Yoruba community - Greater Accra condemned in its entirety the Lekki toll gate massacre by the Nigeria Army. According to it, the situation back in the country is "horrific".

According to the community, the killings are beyond words that a military that is paid by tax-payer will be responsible for the killing of unarmed protesters.

In any civilized society protest is a legitimate approach for a citizen to express their grievance or draw the attention of the government toward any policy or unwanted situation in the country.

Unfortunately, the APC-led government of Muhammadu Buhari has shown they lack the needed leadership competence to manage the affair of the country considering the body language of our president especially the refusal to publicly address the aggrieved youth protesting the end of Sars brutality and others demands.

The President has the opportunity to write his name in gold if he had responded swiftly as a father figure, not just the president.

As a community we feel this heinous incident was a premeditated attack not only on the youth but on the south-west as a region and all Yoruba leaders should not sit aloof.

This is an agenda well scripted and duly orchestrated by the northern elite to undermine the honor of the Oduaa nation. The question is why is Lagos the only state that government sent the military to attack protesters when truly there is unrest in Kano, Nasarawa and the rest, there is more to this than meet the eye.

As a matter of urgency, we advise the government with immediate effect order the military return back to the barrack so the police saddle with the constitutional mandate to handle civil unrest/protester.

The government should also make effort to win the trust of the citizen through the honest implementation of all the demands made by the Nigerian.

Those of us in the diaspora shall continue to act as a watchdog on the development at home to ensure peace reign in our beloved country Nigeria.