Gani Adams, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland on Tuesday said that the only way to fight the growing insecurity encountered in the South-West region is to support the activities of Amotekun and not frustrate them.

Mr. Adams’ admonition comes in the heat of the growing insecurity situation in the South-west region, alleged that some Yorubas were contributing to the challenges rocking the region.

The self determination activist told Arise TV that Yorubas constitutes about 25 to 30 percent of the security threats being witnessed in the region.

Mr. Adams asserted that some citizens had worked with the killer herdsmen by providing food and information on kidnap targets of the Fulani herdsmen.

“By the time we released a statement, we realised that we have been seriously infiltrated,” he said. “Even the security threats we are having in the southwest now, we realise that our people constituted nothing less than 25 to 30 percent of the security threat.”

“Some Fulani herdsmen were arrested in Ilesa (and) in Akure, when the OPC vigilante and the Amotekun arrested them last week, we realised that the person who prepared food for them in that forest was a Yoruba person in Ilesa and we realised that the person that gave them information about the people they will kidnap is a Yoruba person,” Mr. Adams added.

He further blamed the hunger for ‘money to flash’ as big men as the reason some  Yorubas get involved in the security threatening activities with herdsmen.

“So we had to sit back and apply strategy to this issue, where is our problem coming from? who are the evil people among us that need money at any time to flash as big men in the society?” He asked.

Supporting the South Western Security Network was the only means to combat insecurity in the region, Mr Adams concluded.

“If you want to fight insecurity conventionally and we still respect the fact that we have six southwest governors in Yoruba land. The only way out is to support Amotekun to do their job and not by frustrating Amotekun,” he said.