“Topics slated for discussion at the workshop include insecurity in Yorubaland: the challenge confronting the security agencies, the role of traditional rulers in combating abductions and terrorism.”
January 21, 2023 7:45 PM
The Yoruba Leadership and Peace Initiative , a socio-cultural group, says it will hold a workshop on the growing security challenge in the south-west. In a statement, the group said the workshop will be held on June 25 at the Conference Hall, Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo state with the theme ‘Safety and security in Yorubaland: An advisory for stakeholders’.
Expected at the event are Adedokun Abolarin, the Orangun of Oke-Ila; Leye Jaiyeola, retired rear admiral; Kunle Togun, commander of Amotekun security in Oyo; Tunji Alapini, a retired assistant inspector-general of police; and Modupe Albert of the Department of Politics and International Relations, Lead City University, Ibadan.
“Topics slated for discussion at the workshop include insecurity in Yorubaland: the challenge confronting the security agencies, the role of traditional rulers in combating abductions and terrorism, taming the monsters of abductions and terrorism in Yorubaland, the imperatives of a decentralised security landscape in combating banditry in Nigeria as well as the challenges and prospects of the military in mitigating the crisis of kidnapping and terrorism,” the group said.
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