A civil rights organisation, the Save Lagos Group (SLG), has raised the alarm over the existence of what it termed ‘local terrorism and Yoruba herdsmen’ in Lagos.

The group said towards this end, it has resolved to meet with popular Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, to rid the state of the evil.

This is coming just as the group carpeted officials of the state government for “deliberately putting in place harsh measures against the residents of the state” whom it stated are being made to bear the brunt of bad governance.

Reacting to the attempt to arrest Sunday Igboho on Friday, the group strongly condemned the development, urging the Federal and Oyo State Governments to

fish out the security attackers.

The men of the Department of State Security (DSS), Police and the military, allegedly attacked Sunday Igboho at Guru Maraj’s area in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Friday, while he was going for a meeting with Afenifere leaders in Lagos.

SLG advised the DSS to stop denying the foiled attempt to arrest Sunday Igboho on Friday as widely reported in the media, recalling that the men of their men have tried similar action on the founder of online medium, Saharareporters.com and revolutionary,

Comrade Omoyele Sowore, at the premises of the court last year.

The group in a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday and signed by its Convener, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, lamented that findings from the research it conducted have shown that the state government has become a burden on the people whom it ought to protect and safeguard.

“The responsibility of governments all over the world is to protect and safeguard the safety and well-being of the people by putting in place measures that would alleviate their sufferings as well as those that would enhance their day-to-day living.

“Sadly, this is not the case when you see what is going on in Lagos State, where successive governments in the state have shirked their responsibilities to the people by becoming a burden on them through various punitive and exploitative measures which have come to become a yoke on the people,” SLG stated.

It disclosed that the growing fragrant human rights abuses in the state has prompted it to resolve to meet with Sunday Igboho with the hope of riding Lagos State of those whom it termed ‘local terrorists’ and ‘Yoruba herdsmen’ who have been terrorising the people with their lawless attitude.

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