Insecurity: Time for Amotekun to start operating
Punch Newspapers Sections Published 13 December 2020 SUBJECTED to a new wave of savage criminality, the high expectation of citizens that the Western Nigerian Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun will bring succour their way is fading. Except in some isolated cases of rescue, the initial show of great bravura that accompanied Amotekun’s formation has translated to despondency. While still embroiled in taking-off rituals, the targets of the agency, especially kidnappers, have returned with ferocity across the region, maiming, abducting, destroying farmland and killing. That is dangerou...