Yoruba Nation agitator launches anti-kidnapping app

No Yoruba person needs to be alone again anywhere across the southwest, said Prof. Banji Akintoye while unveiling a mobile app that alerts relatives of kidnap victims.

The leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua made this known at an event in Ibadan, Oyo State.

According to him, the application, which he called Pajawiri,  can be downloaded on Play Store, and it has a feature called ‘Afinihan’ that can be used by those without android phones to link up with those with the full application.

“We have now proven to the world that we cannot be captured nor be subdued. We are too intellectually sophisticated to be subdued,” he said through Zoom from Benin Republic to a live audience in Ibadan.

“It is these innovations and intellectual powers that we will deploy to get ourselves out of the quagmires of Nigeria,” the 86-year-old said, according to a statement by his spokesman, Maxwell Adeleye.

“Those in possession of the ‘Pajawiri’ app on their telephone, will be able to activate the app instantly, whenever they find themselves in danger. By activating the app, they will be able to alert their families, their friends and their neighbours that they are in danger and that they need help.

“In that way, no Yoruba person needs to be alone anywhere on their farms, schools, market places, shops and anywhere else. Any person who finds himself threatened by danger and who is in possession of Pajawiri will be able to alert other persons for help.”

He, however, did not explain if the app only works for Yoruba citizens and only in the southwest alone.