A Pan-yoruba socio-cultural group, Yoruba Koya Movement has declared Wednesday June 12 as a National Day of Protest against the ongoing killings and kidnappings across Yoruba Speaking States including Kogi and Kwara States.
The rally, tagged JUNE 12 OTOGE RALLY, backed by a Yoruba Intelligentsia group, Voice of Reason (VOR) and 26 other socio-cultural and self-determination groups will hold in all Yoruba Speaking State capitals of Ondo, Oyo, Ekiti, Lagos, Osun, Ogun, Kogi and Kwara States respectively.
The rally, according to a statement made available to news men on Monday in Lagos by the National Director of Organization and Publicity of the group, Mr. Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye is aimed at presenting the Yoruba Charter of Demands to the government of Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN) and to also present a Public Petition to the United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) over the ongoing genocide in Southern and Middle Belt Nations of Nigeria.
The group also said the rally is being organized to reawaken the people of Yoruba Speaking States to be conscious of the agenda of some ethnic warlords and reactionaries outside their domain to capture their land and enslave them while masquerading as visitors and to enjoin all Governors in Yoruba Speaking States to integrate towards economic, social and political development of Yoruba Land and to encourage them to make the security of lives and properties of their people utmost priority.
The statement also reads that the rally is meant to encourage Yoruba Legislators both at State and National Assemblies to endorse, support and move motions that will expressly indicate where the Yoruba Stands.
The rally, billed to commence at 9am, will hold simultaneously in Gani Faweyinmi Park, Lagos, Ibadan Military Cenotaph, Opposite Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, Oyo State, Pansheke Roundabout, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Fajuyi Roundabout, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, Osun State, Alagbaka Roundabout, opposite First Bank, Akure, Ondo State, kabba Township Stadium, Kabba, Kogi state and Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Ilorin, Kwara State respectively.
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