The Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association (YYSA) has vowed to defend the Southwest region and its heritage against any external forces that may threaten peace, unity, and development in the region.
YYSA gave this assurance following the planned protest against hardship in the country by some groups scheduled to hold in August.
In a statement on Friday in Ibadan, National President of YYSA, Olalekan Hammed, and the National Secretary, Olawale Ajao, said they had uncovered secret plans by unscrupulous elements to take advantage of the impending nationwide protest to perpetrate evil acts.
According to the youths, there is a plan to set major economic development facilities ablaze in the Southwest. “We have uncovered some secret plans by unscrupulous elements to take advantage of the impending nationwide protest against hardship to perpetrate evils by setting ablaze all our major economic development facilities in the Southwest. Besides that, they have also mapped out some strategic areas to ensure that they navigate easily to palaces menacingly and burn them to ashes,” they alleged. They added that local government secretariats were also among the public properties targeted for destruction.
“Moreover, it is our prerogative to defend the Southwest region and heritage against all external forces that may threaten peace, unity, and development. For this reason, we hereby unequivocally declare that the scheduled mass protest has been put on hold to secure and protect Yoruba land from enemies of progress disguising as students and activists to put us into peril socially and economically,” they said.
Meanwhile, the Yoruba group commended the President Bola Tinubu-led administration for