A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae has said that assuming he was killed by the Fulani Herdsmen who kidnapped him; his death would have ignited an ethnic war between Yoruba and Fulani.
Falae 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
While narrating his ordeal to the immediate former Minster for Education, Mallam Abubakar Shekarau, who paid him a visit to sympathise with him over the incident, he expressed gratitude to God for sparing his life.
He 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 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.”
Shekarau also added that security is the priority of every Nigerian.
He said “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.”