Owo Church Attack: KACRAN commends Nigerian security agencies for arrest of perpetrators
The Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN), has commended the Nigerian security agencies for the successful arrest of the perpetrators of the Owo Church attack that took place on June 5th.
The association gave the commendation in a press statement signed by the National President, Honourable Khalil Mohd Bello.
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The statement reads “We the Members of Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN) are sorrowfully joining the families and relatives of the victims of the Owo Church attack and that of Herders who were innocently killed during the mourning of their beloved ones but wish to immensely thank and highly commend the Nigeria security agencies for their successful arrest of the perpetrators of Owo’s Church brutal, senseless killings of innocent Nigerians in their place of worship.
“Truly, the Nigerian security agencies did a wonderful, historic job that deserved commendation not only by Nigerians alone but by the entire civilised world. Surely their excellent performance led to the exposure and continuous arrest of the said criminals thus bringing to an end the wrongful accusation of law-abiding Nigerians who have no hand in the said barbaric act. Here we refer to the exculpation of our law-abiding Herders who are residing in Ondo State but were pointed accusing fingers that they were amongst the suspected master minders of the barbaric act as wrongly pointed by the Ondo State Governor, His Excellency, Mr Rotimi Okeredolu. This wrong accusation subjected many Herders to be victims of reprisal attacks by touts.
“It is in view of this negative development that we want to make it abundantly clear to all that, we are not denying the fact that there may be some law offenders amongst who are bad eggs being human beings but that doesn’t warrant levelling all as criminals.
“Here we want to say that majority of herders are law-abiding Nigerians who are operating their pastoral occupation in a peaceful and very useful manner as they continue to pay revenues and other taxes to the government.
At this juncture, we members of KACRAN, whose core interest is the maintenance of peace in the entire country wonder why from the initial stage a whole governor of a state, which is amongst the old respected states in the country; whose people are very kind and generous and as a father to all Ondo state people regardless of their religion, tribe, occupation or the areas they come from, will hurriedly use a highly pitiable scantly baseless information to jump into conclusion, making a hasty decision of levelling a heavy accusation against a particular tribe or occupation that resulted to the killing of the people and destruction of their properties he was supposed to protect.
“Meanwhile, in reference to the above, we are appealing to all Nigerians to stop making a hasty decision/comment or taking laws into their hands when something bad happens in their areas but rather allow security agencies to do their job professionally.
“We also appeal to Ondo State Governor, His Excellency Rotimi Okeredolu to kindly pay compensation to the victims of Owo Church reprisal attacks, whose relatives were innocently killed or lost their properties which is the source of their livelihood.
“We also want to call on our security agencies and Amotekun who were said to have made some arrests in connection to the attack and are still detaining many Herders to as a matter of fact release them since the perpetrators of the said shameful criminal act has been exposed.
“We once more appreciate the continuous arrest of many more criminals in connection to the Owo church attack by our able military men.
“We again want to express our deepest condolences to the families and relatives of the entire victims of the said incident and those who were killed innocently due to the reprisal attacks.
“We are again grateful to our security agencies for their wonderful work as we are advising all Nigerians to be steadfast in obeying laws and order and also call on our Herders to avoid reckless cattle rearing and remain law-abiding Nigerians by living in peace with their host communities as they operate their legitimate business.
The association equally called National Security Adviser (NSA), General Mohammed Mongoro (rtd), to give a listening ear to Nigerians with meaningful information to keep the country united.
“On the part of our National Security Adviser General Mohammed Mongoro (rettired) we passionately call on him to open up to listen to the humble advises by KACRAN and other meaningful Nigerians who are ready to give meaningful information/advise on how best peace will be maintained in the country.”
It also appealed to the Minister of Justice, Alhaji Abubakar Malami SAN, to execute the presidential order given to him to reclaim all encroached grazing reserves in the Northern States to end the movement of Herders to the South.
“We want to strongly appeal to the Honourable Minister of Justice, Alhaji Abubakar Malami SAN, to kindly execute the Presidential Executive Order given to him for over a year now to reclaim all the encroached grazing reserves and blocked cattle routes in the Northern States which when executed shall end the movement of our Herders to the South so that the issue of insecurity related to herders/farmer clashes will be minimally reduced in the country,” the statement added.
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