Afenifere, the Pan-Yoruba Social-Political group has asked governors of the Southwest geo-political zone to liaise with their counterparts in Northcentral and South-South zones to tackle insecurity in the country.

The mainstream Yoruba organisation in a communique after the meeting held at the house of the leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti also called on politicians and political players to go about their electioneering processes peacefully.

The group in the communique signed by the Publicity Secretary, Mr Jare Ajayi said the 2027 electioneering should be devoid of violence, thuggery, and character assassination.

The group expressed concern over the security situation in the country especially and called on governors of the six states in the South West to take more decisive actions on insecurity that seems to be ravaging the land now.

Afenifere asked the Southwest governors to strengthen Amotekun, pay more attention to surveillance, and expedite actions on the setting up of state police.

These, the group said should be done in collaboration with governments of neighbouring states, especially Kwara, Kogi, Edo, and Delta which also have sizable Yoruba populations.

Ajayi said the group took note of the steps by the federal government under President Ahmed Bola Tinubu on the security situation including the meeting he held with security chiefs and took note of the efforts of the military and other security agencies on security issues in the land.

Consequently, the group recommended that the military and other security agencies be further strengthened with more equipment, morale boosting, and enhancement of kinetic and non-kinetic security measures

Also, Afenifere said “Government and security agencies, including the military, should look inward as insecurity continues to fester because there are internal collaborators.”

They said: “Such a searchlight should be beamed on local communities as there are collaborators among them as well. By this, we mean unscrupulous people who are collaborating with kidnappers, bandits, and terrorists. Confessions by some of the suspects that have been made public attested to this line of thinking.”

While commiserating with the people who have been victims of terrorism in Yorubaland and in other parts of Nigeria, the organization called on all concerned not to waste any more time in doing all that is humanly possible to put an end to what now appears to be a genocidal agenda.