WE HAVE FAILED TO DEFEND THE PEOPLE - GOV. AKEREDOLU

"We have failed to defend the people," Governor Akeredolu says as victims of Owo sheeting are laid to rest.

The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has said that the government failed to defend the victims of the terror attack at St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State.

The governor said this on Friday, June 17, at the victims' funeral mass which held at the Mydas Resort and Hotel, Owo.

Fighting back tears, Akeredolu said. "We have failed to defend these people. Not because we have not tried. But because these forces on the other side are evil and they have supports. They will not triumph over us forever

When I see the sea of heads that are here it speaks volumes. What has happened to us in Owo in Ondo state is indescribable. A lot of words are used to qualify it. Dastardly, horrendous. But still believe there are words to use to describe it but I still short of those words.

We have just 22 (deceased) in this hall. A few of them have been buried. Because the relatives couldn't wait till today. But as at the last count, these animals came to the church and murdered 40 people."

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