Insecurity in S-West: Yoruba must return to ancestral roles — Monarchs, traditional worshipers
•Say politicians have belittled kingship •Kings don’t speak with one voice anymore •We’ve not jettisoned traditional ways of protecting ourselves —Olugbon of Orile •Clamour for state police re-echoes •S-West govs must arm Amotekun —Monarchs •It’s time for community policing, traditional solutions —Ooni •We’re devising means to secure our communities, forests —Deji of Akureland We lack motivation from governors —Soludero hunters WHEN kidnapping and wanton destruction of lives and property abated after the introduction of the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Amotekun, people in the South-West heaved a sigh of relief thinking they could now sleep with two eyes closed. But the sudden resurgence of the heinous crime which culminated in the killing of two kings in Ekiti State by bandits, has increased their fear. With the cases of the two monarchs in Ekiti and another in Kwara in mind, they continue asking, if fire can consume a tortoise with an iron coat, what will it n...