The Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association (YYSA), has vowed to defend the Southwest region and its heritage against all external forces that may threaten the peace, unity and development in the region.

YYSA gave the assurance following the planned protest against hardship in the country by some groups scheduled to hold in August.

National President of YYSA, Olalekan Hammed and the National Secretary, Olawale Ajao in a statement on Friday in Ibadan, said it had uncovered secret plans by some unscrupulous elements to take advantage of the intending nationwide protest against hardship to perpetrate evils.

According to the youths, there is a plan by the people to set major economic development facilities ablaze in the Southwest.

“We have uncovered some secret plans by unscrupulous elements to take advantage of the intending nationwide protest against hardship to perpetrate evils by setting ablaze all our major economic development facilities in Southwest.

“Besides that, they have as well mapped out some strategic areas to ensure that they navigate easily to palaces menacingly and burn them to ashes”, the youths alleged.

They added that local government secretariats were also part of the public properties targeted for destruction by the people.

“Moreover, it is our prerogative to defend Southwest region and heritage against all external forces that may be threat to peace, unity and development.

“For this reason, we hereby unequivocally declare that the scheduled mass protest has been put on hold in order 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 ensuring that justice prevailed for all tiers of government to operate as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution.

“They are as well known as the three levels of government through which legislative lists were shared as follows; exclusively legislative list, concurrent legislative list and residual list.

“Although, the state governments that constitutionally share some powers in the residual legislative list with local governments have dominated everything, while the constitutionally recognised third tier of government has become castrated”, the youths added.

While noting that genuine development starts from the grassroot at the local government level where people are engaging mostly in primary activities such as farming, fishing, craft, hunting, petty trading and others, the YYSA said, “Essentially, agriculture products and food items are being transported to cities after successful harvest in rural areas under local administrations.’

It further explained that the issue of security can best be tackled at local level where suspicious persons can easily be identified.

helinues:
To sure. SE will never allow the repeat of end SARS in Lagos state.Meanwhile, there was a protest in Lagos state yesterday which most people don't know.....

YoungDaNaval:
Someone should remind me that popular quote by IBB again

helinues:
To sure. We will never allow the repeat of end SARS in Lagos state.

Meanwhile, there was a protest in Lagos state yesterday which most people don't know.

The message was clear, Lagosians had their peaceful protest already, the rest of the protest should be taken elsewhere

helinues:
The South South people haven't shown any interest in any protest?

The Arewa group just warned their people not to be part of any protest.

Nothing like protest from SW people.

Who then are the people behind this protest?

Tochitee:
I call on the Lagos state government to watch the ipob,s community,they are always looking for opportunities to destroy Lagos!

Racoon:
Same political psycophancy group like the hypocritical save and occupy Nigeria groups who were social moralists during 2012 - 2015 but now have today gone conscience dead just to justify the bad governance of a well known drug baron, certificate forging disaster of an account who have ended up bastardizing a nation beyond repair.

The people of Nigeria have never had things so bad and you're defending a profligate government with untenable economic hocus pocus. History beackons!