Yoruba and Fulani would have Gone to War if Fulani Herdsmen had killed me - Olu Falae

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, has said there would have been ethnic war between the Fulani and the Yoruba people, if his abductors had killed him.

He said this on Thursday while narrating his ordeal to the immediate former Minster of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, who paid him a sympathy visit over the incident.

Falae said, “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 killed me but they did not succeed.

“I also thank God for making me to survive the ordeal because if I 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.”

Speaking, Shekarau said the only solution to the security challenges in the country was for the people of the country to embrace community policing, where everybody would be a policeman in the community.

“The issue of security should be the concern of everybody, not only the policemen. Our government 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 had served this country meritoriously”, he stated.