CRIL Urges President Tinubu To End Violence, Attacks

Centre For Righteous Living (cril), a faith-based non-governmental or­ganisation (NGO), has alarm over increasing killings, attacks and violence in parts of the country, while calling on President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to check the trend. In a statement made available to Sunday independent by the Chair­man of its Caretaker Committee, Dr. Christopher Olatunji Abolade, CRIL, a body raised to ensure and promote righteousness in govern­ment, urgec the Federal Govern­ment to act swiftly to nip in the bud the raging violence and attacks of innocent people in different parts of Nigeria.

The statement, which was part of the resolution at the end of its monthly meeting recently held in Lagos, lamented the hune number of lives and properties being lost in these attacks. Recently, some states of Nigeria like Plateau, Benue and Ondo have witnessed serious violent attacks by suspected Fulani herders and bandits, who kill their innocent hosts in their numbers. CRIL, in its statement expressed worries about the state of insecuri­ty in different parts of the country, lamenting that Nigerians could no longer live and move freely with­out the fears of intruders, bandits and kidnappers, who descend on individuals and communities, killing people and destroying their host communities.



The body, therefore, called on President Bola Tinubu to do something as a matter of urgency and should not wait until Nigeri­ans take laws into their hands by resorting to self-defence as being advocated by some people. They suggested that the Feder­al Government should get to the root of the matter by supporting thorough investigations where the sponsors of these violence would be apprehended, and the laws made to take its course without fear or favour. CRIL noted that the rate of killings was becoming too much, stressing that if the Federal Gov­ernment did not take a decisive action about it, it might not only discredit it, but might also con­sume the government.

CRIL also advised President Tinubu not to allow saboteurs to undermine his government, even as it warned of the consequences of the violence and attacks which it feared might lead to total break­down of law and order..