The governor also stated that the states of the South West are ready to combat crimes through the security agency, which was initially launched in January 2020 as a South West regional security outfit to combat crimes in collaboration with the police and other federal security agencies.
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The Governor explained that the security outfit was a child of necessity aimed to solve and address the various security challenges bedevilling the state and the South West zone in particular and Nigeria in general.
Chief Adetunji Adeleye, State Commander, Amotekun Corps, made this known while conducting journalists round the affected farmlands.
Chief Adetunji Olu-Adeleye, Amotekun Corps Commandant in the state, who made this known on Tuesday in Akure, said the recruitment form would attract no charges.
Fayemi, while assenting to the bill at a brief ceremony at the Jibowu Hall, Government House, Ado-Ekiti, reiterated his earlier assertion that the Amotekun outfit was not a substitute for existing security agencies, but a complementary agency that would enhance and sustain the existing security architecture in the South West region of the Country
The Majority Leader, Yusuf Sherif, had presented the report of the Committee on Security and Strategy during plenary in Abeokuta
Olakunle Oluomo, the Speaker of the House, read the Governor’s letter during plenary in Abeokuta
The Ekiti State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Wale Fapounda, on Monday submitted the draft bill on Amotekun, the South West security outfit, to the state Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.