BOKO HARAM WILL SOON ATTACK SOUTH WEST STATES,..PAN YORUBA GROUP WARNS!

Apapo Oodua Koya

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BOKO HARAM WILL SOON ATTACK SW STATES, GROUP WARNS

Press Statement June 18, 2012 Ibadan. 

The Islamic extremist group, BOKO HAARAM is likely to attack Lagos and Ibadan before or in the month of July this year, Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA) a pan Yoruba group warned on Monday.

“Our observation is informed by the trusted information at our disposal. Boko Haram thinks the best way to get attention is through sustained attacks, but the surest way to dominate national discuss and stir critical opinions is to take the battle to the country’s economic hub, which is Lagos and Ibadan. That is the new thinking of the Boko Haram leadership” the group said in issued on Monday.

AOKOYA regrets that the political leadership of the South West unfortunately has no concrete plans to curtail the almost inevitable suicide bomb attacks that the Islamic group, Boko Haram may unleash on the largely urbanized Yoruba region, A Yoruba group said on Monday.

According to Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA), the Yoruba self-determination group, the frequent activities of Boko Haram in Kogi State, plus the last weekend bomb attacks on Kaduna city are clear indications that cities in South West Nigeria must be prepared for their own dose of suicide attacks from Islamic fundamentalists pushing for sectarian leadership of the country. The group described the bombing of ECWA church in Kaduna as a calculated attack on the Yoruba people, being the most notable worshipers in ECWA churches across the country.

“We have intelligence information that Boko Haram will attack the largely vulnerable Yoruba cities on or before the month of July this year. We fear the carnage that will result from violent attacks on Yoruba cities. It is naïve to assume that Boko Haram will spare Lagos, Ibadan, Warri or any of the Yoruba cities. At present, the Yoruba political leadership relies on the Nigerian Police and the State Security Service, (SSS). These groups are too polarized, corrupt, inept, politicized, ill-motivated and hunted by low morale to be able to offer any hope for the Yoruba people”, Adedoyin said

The group said that as Nigeria inches towards the 100 years of the forceful amalgamation of the country by imperial lords, the dissolution of the country should be a natural expectation given the tear, sorrow and blood that have characterized the history of the country since 1914. There cannot be any redeemer for a nation that is destined and designed to collapse. We urge the Yoruba people to rise up and work hard to ensure minimum casualty in our search for the inevitable Oduduwa Republic. We seek alliance with the Middle-Belt, Igbos and the South-South, for the greater future of a traumatized population that have been pushed into the cesspool of underdevelopment, hunger and starvation in the hands of a hateful social and political system that offers nothing but destruction and the spilling of human blood.

Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA) said that Nigeria  urgently needs the assistance of the international community to prevent the carnage that may arise from the inevitable break-up of the country.

 In the statement issued at Ibadan and signed by the group’s Secretary for Internal Affairs, Alhaji Mufatau Adedoyin, AOKOYA said the spate of bombings will not abate simply because the social and political contradictions of a diverse, plural society being forced to live under one law and value has reached its breaking point. “The issue is no longer whether the country will break-up, the real issue now is when and how. The people face the grim reality of either a violent break-up or ceaseless confrontation with blood and anguish in the hands of extremist forces.”