Adeyinka Grandson called on the federal
government to grant an independent Oduduwa Republic - The president of the
Yoruba Youths for Freedom claimed resources from the south west was used to
develop the north - He said there will be organised violence against the
federal government if Oduduwa Republic is not granted Adeyinka Grandson who is
the president of the Young Yorubas for Freedom has insisted that if Yoruba
people don’t get their desired Oduduwa Republic, there will be organised
violence. In an interview with The Punch, the YYF leader who released a
trending viral video that he would use chemical weapon to fight the
Hausa/Fulani insisted that resources from the south west was being used to
develop the north. He said: “The following seven revenue generating agencies
collect 95 per cent of the Federal Government of Nigeria incomes: the Nigeria
National Petroleum Corporation, the Nigeria Customs Service, the Federal Inland
Revenue Service, the Nigeria Ports Authority, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigeria
Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas.
“From all the levies paid to the Federal
Government of Nigeria as revenue, the Yoruba pays 49 per cent of the total
revenue accruing to the Federal Government every month, but receives about
eight per cent of the monthly allocation from the same Federal Government,
whereas, the North, a region that contributes less than five per cent to the
total revenue of the Federal Government, receives more than 55 per cent of the
monthly allocation shared by the Federal Government. “We make no pretence that
if the Federal Government of Nigeria refuses to return Nigeria to true and
fiscal federalism that is based on regional autonomy on or before election, the
Young Yorubas for Freedom will declare for Oduduwa Republic and start a war
with the use of chemical, biological, and even radiological weapons against the
Federal Government of Nigeria if its President orders an attack on the
sovereignty of the Yoruba people whenever we declare for Oduduwa Republic. “The
days our parents were protesting with their fists in the face of armoured tanks
and being killed, arrested, imprisoned and exiled by the Hausa/Fulani are over.
Our generation has learned from their mistakes. It is Oduduwa Republic or
organised violence.” Grandson described Yoruba youths as gullible who have
allowed the federal government led by the Hausa Fulani to take advantage of
them.
He said: “The gullible Yoruba youth are
oblivious of the fact that small business owners with operational base in
Yorubaland have been paying corporate income tax in the Yoruba’s South-West
since 1966, but 90 per cent of the tax goes to build schools, hospitals, fire
stations, and roads for the people living in the northern regions, whilst 200
children in Yorubaland die each day from sanitation-related diarrhoea, when
revenues collected in Yorubaland fund economic growth and development in the
North. “The gullible Yoruba youths who are pro-One Nigeria can crosscheck with
the Federal Ministry of Finance that 70 per cent of VAT/Sales Tax collected in
Nigeria is from Lagos, Yorubaland. If we add Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti,
Kwara and Western Kogi, Akoko-Edo and Itsekiri in Delta State to Lagos State,
Yorubaland contributes 85 per cent of the VAT/sales tax collected by the
Federal Government of Nigeria.
The more reason Hausa/Fulani people are always
desperate to ‘capture’ power to continue to lord it over the Yoruba people. If
Yoruba youths can understand why they are wretched and miserable, they will
take up to organised violence with chemical weapons to free their homeland from
Nigeria. But because Christianity and Islam have damaged their minds and souls,
they can’t think like human beings. Before I was born, the saying has always
been that ‘the Yoruba are the most educated people in Nigeria.’ It is an
expensive joke I have heard in my adult life.”
Meanwhile, a coalition of Niger Delta agitators
told northerners and Yorubas residing in the Niger Delta to vacate the region
before October 1. The group also threatened to resume attacks on oil and gas
installation across the Niger Delta region from September 10, 2017.
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