Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade. Credit: Palace Media
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, on Sunday called on the Federal Government to take a holistic approach to intelligence gathering and native intelligence mechanisms as part of efforts to address insecurity.
He gave the advice in a statement released by his Director of Media and Publicity, Bode Durojaiye, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, following terrorist attacks and abductions in four villages in the Ogbomoso area on Friday.
The Alaafin urged the government to abandon reactive approaches to insecurity, saying this would require making credible investments in intelligence capabilities that identify threats before they materialise, hardening soft targets such as schools and communities, and cutting off the financial and logistical networks sustaining criminal groups.
This, according to the monarch, means working with communities to build trust and gather intelligence rather than treating them as collateral damage in airstrikes.
