“We will never allow foreigners to take over our land and start killing us unnecessarily. We are tired of bloodletting. Nigeria is for us all, not for a certain section of the people. We are here in our own land and we have the sense to accommodate anyone that comes to the southwest for commerce and other things. But we won’t allow anyone to come here to rape our wives and destroy our land.”

In other countries of the world, there are state police and county police. When you go to other places, you see local government police. This is what we have been asking for in a very long time. Restructuring of the country is inevitable. We don’t owe anybody any apology for trying to protect ourselves. Nigeria belongs to us all.”-Dr. Kunle Olajide, General Secretary, Yoruba Council of Elders,