The pan Yoruba organization issued a 14-day ultimatum to militants – OPC issued the warning in reaction to recent attacks The
reformed Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) has issued a 14-day ultimatum to suspected Niger Delta militants. Niger Delta militants have been advised to stop attacking communities in the Southwest. OPC warned the militants to desist from attacking communities in the South West, else the Ijaw people in the region would gear up for reprisal attacks. The pan-Yoruba organization issued the threat while reacting to recent attacks by suspected militants on Imusin and Ogijo in Ogun and some riverine communities in Ikorodu area of Lagos state.
Daily Post reports the group in a statement by Comrade Dare Adesope entitled,‘‘Incursion of Ijaw militants into Yoruba land: Enough is enough,’’threatened reprisal attack if the suspected Ijaw militants failed to end the incursion into the South-West at the end of the ultimatum. According to the group, the attack in the South- West was an affront on the Yoruba nation and it would not be accepted. The statement reads in part:“Enough of these invasions, killings and kidnapping of our people right on our own soil. We of the Oodua Peoples Congress (Reformed) have waited for this long, hoping that the government would curb the deadly acts of the Ijaw people on our kinsmen in their fatherland in Ogun and Lagos states. But, it has now dawned on us that the lives and properties of our people and, indeed, the masses are of no importance to those in authorities and the marauding militants.
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