Amid the growing concerns over the spread of banditry, insurgency and other violent crimes in the country, a foremost Yoruba advocacy group, the Yoruba Leadership, and Peace Initiative (TYLPI) is to hold a high-level workshop on safety and security in the region.
The workshop with the theme “Safety and security in Yorubaland: An advisory for stakeholders “ will hold at the Conference Hall, Lead City University, Ibadan on Wednesday, January 25, 2023.
Speakers at the programme will include His Royal Majesty, the Orangun of Oke-Ila, Osun State, Oba Adedokun Abolarin; Rear Admiral Leye Jaiyeola (rtd), formerly of the Nigerian Navy Intelligence Corps; Brig Gen Kunle Togun, Commander, Oyo State Amotekun Security Corps; Chief Tunji Alapini, a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police and Dr. 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 decentralized 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 President of TYLPI, Mr. Olusegun K. Ahmadu will deliver an address of welcome at the workshop at which member organizations of the South West Development Forum (SWDF), women groups, top academics, civil society organizations, faith-based groups, and community leaders are expected to be in attendance.
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