A Yoruba socio-cultural group, Yoruba Indigenes Foundation, YIF, has resolved to hold consultations with the governors of all the northern states, with a view to averting a recurrence of the recent ethno-religious riots that rocked Jos, Plateau State.

The group, which rose on Thursday from a two-day meeting in Lagos, noted that the tour of the northern states became expedient following its discovery that many persons of Yoruba extraction were killed in the Jos riots.

In a communiqué issued after the meeting by Otunba Olu Adenodi, National Coordinator and Mr. Olumide Aderibole, President, YIF stated, "We believe that Nigeria is a federal state and as such, recent reports of ethnic cleansing as was witnessed in Jos can no longer be tolerated."

"We particularly found out that many Yoruba were killed and scores maimed. That is why we want to go up the north, hold consultations with the governors, the Emirs and the Sultan of Sokoto, with a view to averting a recurrence."

"We believe that these leaders would help a great deal in fending for our people in their domain," the group averred.

It also cautioned against ethnic bigotry, remarking that it is one of the major problems besetting the country today.

Meanwhile, the YIF in the communiqué also expressed concern over what it described as moral decadence that has fallen to its lowest ebb among Yoruba families residing in the western world.

"It is against our culture for wives to be ordering their husbands about in the matrimonial home as if they were house-helps, which is what is taking place right now among the Yoruba living in European countries and the Americas,"

"That is why we have fixed Yoruba Awareness Programme for April 30 in London, Britain to dissuade our people from such foreign practices," the group informed.

Besides, the group said it would soon take all the Yoruba states' governors on a tour of Brazil, to meet with the Yoruba in that country.

"We discovered that majority of Brazilians are Yoruba and we want the governors to market their states' programmes on tourism and economic potentials to the Yoruba in Brazil, who want to come back to their roots," the YIF declared.

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