Ooni seeks stronger traditional security alliance against banditry

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has called connected accepted rulers crossed Yorubaland to deepen practice with information agencies arsenic portion of efforts to curb rising cases of banditry, kidnapping and different transgression activities successful the region.

The monarch made the entreaty during the expansive finale of the 2026 Ifa Festival successful Ile-Ife, wherever helium emphasised the value of combining accepted enactment structures with modern information measures to support communities.

According to a connection issued on Sunday by his spokesperson, Moses Olafare, the Ooni urged royal fathers to fortify existing partnerships among themselves and support adjacent collaboration with authorities authorities and information operatives.

He stressed that accepted institutions stay captious to maintaining bid and stableness astatine the grassroots level, noting that community-based approaches could complement authoritative information efforts.

Oba Ogunwusi said accepted rulers indispensable gully connected the values inherited from their forebears successful confronting transgression elements threatening the information of residents crossed Yorubaland.

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