A coalition, under the aegis of the Yoruba Appraisal Forum (YAF), yesterday, petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, governors of the South-West states and service chiefs, enjoining them to urgently act to prevent the second wave of the #EndSARS protests currently being planned by some youths across the country.
YAF also petitioned the National Security Adviser, Maj Gen Mohammed Monguno (retd); Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Adamu; Director General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi; Minister of Defence, Gen. Bashir Magashi (retd); Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi; and Minister of the Interior, Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola.
The group stated that the unpatriotic activities of the masterminds of the #EndSARS protests posed serious dangers to national security, the Nigerian nation and innocent citizens. It described plans of fresh #EndSARS protests as “most irresponsible and grossly unpatriotic!”
YAF, therefore, enjoined police and other security agencies to “act immediately and waste no more time in mopping up the weapons still illegally in the hands of some of these hoodlums masquerading as youths under the aegis of the #EndSARS protests. All the culprits must be arrested now and prosecuted!”
The Forum, at a well-attended press conference in Lagos, sent a strong warning to the masterminds of the second #EndSARS protests, saying the group was ready to confront them in any part of Yorubaland they made any attempt to converge for their nefarious and unpatriotic activities.
YAF National Coordinator, Adeshina Animashaun, said the Forum had already declared those behind another #EndSARS protests persona non grata throughout Yoruba land and South-West.
YAF, therefore, vowed to defend Yoruba land with the last drop of its blood against the plan by the fresh #EndSARS masterminds, lamenting that the South-West, which recorded the worst losses during the October #EndSARS violence, could not afford another round of violence, which the fresh #EndSARS protests would only cause.