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Bolu Adeosun welcomes the recent launch of the South-West Security Network codenamed Amotekun in Ogun State
To say the very least, Nigeria is currently at a crossroads security-wise. Only this week, hoodlums invaded the fortress housing the Imo State police command and the Owerri prisons, setting buildings and vehicles ablaze and freeing inmates. According to reports, policemen in the South-east geopolitical zone are afraid to put on their uniforms, and attacks on police and military formations are heightening in the South-south, North-west, North-east and North-central zones. The North is groaning under the weight of banditry and kidnapping while the South-west, the focus of this piece, has become the site of ceaseless rampage by nomadic herdsmen who abduct, rape, mutilate and butcher people at will, particularly on farmlands. Food insecurity worsens by the day as life becomes nastier, shorter and more brutish.. It is therefore trite noting that the reality of the moment has made i
• Urges other regions to create own Amotekun
Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, yesterday, in Abuja, reviewed the country’s security challenges and concluded that a sure way to tackle them is to decentralise the policing system.
Oyetola, who acknowledged community policing, argued that the intervention is inadequate as it is still being controlled from the centre.
He further argued that the constitutional provision that assigns the role of chief security officer to governors ought to have given them more powers to really and effectively perform their responsibilities as chief security officer. x
Oyetola, who spoke at the second yearly colloquium of Sultan Maccido Institute for Peace, Leadership and Development Studies at the University of Abuja, identified poverty as a key cause of insecurity.
By Kayode Fasua
Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, and Nobel Laureate, Professor âWole Soyinka, yesterday warned operatives of the stateâs chapter of the South Western Security Network (SWSN), code-named Amotekun Corps, against trampling on the rights of the citizens in the course of fighting criminality.
Abiodun has also decorated Soyinka as the Super Marshall of the Amotekun.
The governor specifically charged operatives of the Amotekun Corps to operate within the ambit of the law and diligently add value to efforts aimed at safeguarding lives and properties in the state.
Abiodun and Soyinka spoke yesterday during the official inauguration of Amotekun, which held at the Arcade Ground of the state secretariat complex, Oke -Mosan in Abeokuta, the state capital.
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