War would have erupted if herdsmen had killed me – Falae OCTOBER 23, 2015 : ADE AKANBI

Chief Olu Falae
A
former
Secretary
to
the
Government
of
the
Federation,
Chief
Olu
Falae,
has
declared
that
if
he had been killed by the Fulani herdsmen who allegedly
kidnapped him, there would have been an outbreak of ethnic war
between the Fulani and the Yoruba people.
The elder statesman, who was kidnapped on his farm in Ilado
village, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, on
September 21 and freed on September 24, 2015, noted that he
survived the abduction through the grace of God as the
abductors attempted to take his life during the captivity .
He stated this while narrating his ordeal in the kidnappers’ den
to the immediate former Minster for Education, Mallam
Abubakar Shekarau, who paid him a visit to sympathise with him
over the incident.
“God has a way of doing His things. I know God just decided to
spare my life. God really saved my life. They tortured me,
stripped me naked and did a lot of things to me in their den.
They attempted to kill me, but they did not succeed.
“I also thank God for making me to survive the ordeal, because
if they had killed me there, many lives would have been lost too.
It would have become an ethnic war between the Yoruba and the
Fulani. So, I thank God that the matter did not get to that level.”
Expressing his sympathy to the former Minister of Finance,
Mallam Shekarau said the only solution to the security
challenges in the country was for the people of the country to
embrace community policing, whereby everyone would be a
policeman in the community.
The former governor of Kano State said there was a need for
government at all levels in the country to encourage community
policing, noting that the regular policemen could not do it alone.
“The issue of security should be the concern of everybody; not
only the policemen alone. Our governments should do
everything possible to encourage community policing.
Everybody should be a policeman; everybody should be his
brother’s keeper. We should learn how to immediately report
any act criminality to the security.
“It is very unfortunate that this kind of thing happened to an
elderly man like Chief Falae, who has served this country
meritoriously,” the former Presidential candidate stressed.

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