Youth Group Urges FG, S’West Leaders To Ensure Citizens’ Security, Welfare

The Yoruba Youth Assembly (YYA), an umbrella body of Yoruba youth groups globally, yesterday, appealed to the Federal Government and the South-West governors to upgrade communities’ security architecture to tame COVID-19 lockdown induced crimes.
The National President of the body, Mr Olarinde Thomas, the National Secretary, Mr Deji Oso, and Mr Nathaniel Oduyemi its Publicity Secretary respectively made the call in Lagos.
The organisation said the appeal became imperative because of escalated level of hunger and crime in Lagos and Ogun states arising from the COVID-19 lockdown.
It said increased level of security architecture in these states would safeguard the health and lives of the people.
The group lamented the failure of governments to reach the actual vulnerable people, adding that some politicians distributed “paltry and ridiculous items’’ as palliatives and along party lines defeating the essence of.
“YYA appeal for transparency in the distribution of palliatives by both the federal and state governments, while calling for an audit of the processes to ensure accountability.
“Our people in the Southwest are suffering and agonising not because of the fears of COVID-19 anymore but as a result of the prevailing terror of hunger that is openly staring at them in their state of isolation and deep-seated generic impoverishment,’’ YYA said in a statement made available to newsmen.
The group said that security architecture in the region should be upgraded to curb crime and criminality to ensure success of the lockdown.
“The Federal Government and the state governments in the South-West, Nigeria should empower the Amotekun Security outfit to commence action, especially, during this period of global health emergency,” he said.