ads…ask South West governors to rise above politics, take urgent action
The Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), a pan-Yoruba sociocultural organisation, has called on the Federal Government to immediately deploy special forces, intelligence assets, and logistics (support) to ensure the safe and an unconditional release of the over 45 pupils, students, and teachers abducted in Oriire Local Government Area, Oyo State.
While also calling for urgent action to end the siege on schools and taking precaution against the infiltration of our land/communities, the YCE asked Governors of the Southwest States – Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Lagos to rise above partisan boundaries and deplore all available strategic resources, and inter-state cooperation to secure lives and properties.
Oladipo Oyewole, Secretary General, YCE in a statement condemned, in the strongest possible terms, the coordinated abduction of over 45 pupils, students, and teachers from Baptist Nursery and Primary School, Yaworan, Community Grammar School, Esiele; and L. A. Primary School in Oriire Local Government Area, Oyo State, on Friday, 15th May, 2026.
“This attack on innocent children and their teachers is not just a crime against Oyo State, it is an assault on the conscience of Nigeria, on the future of the Southwest, and on the sacred right of every child to learn in safety.adsads
