The Justice Ministry needs a better head than the current Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, especially in a nether Nigerian universe of shifting political, social and security paradigms. South West, my hometown, is now the epicenter of a new, explosive and racy geopolitical struggle between saints and sinners, war and peace, freedom and lockdown, wisdom and foolishness, good breeding and barbarism, tact and stupidity.
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Usman Jahun, Commander General of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, says “Operation Amotekun” requires the backing of the Federal Government to operate legally.
The amicable resolution of controversies surrounding the “Amotekun” initiative between the South West Governors and the Federal Government shows that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is a true National Leader from the South West, says Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum.
In a bid to make sure that Operation Amotekun remains a people-centered and people-owned initiative, the Yoruba World Congress has activated a help desk, tagged: “People’s Desk,” that will collate suggestions, concerns and observations on it.
The Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, said this on Friday while briefing newsmen at the end of the first quarterly meeting of the forum’s Governance Programme Steering Committee Meeting in Abuja
The IPU, according to a statement signed by its President and Secretary, Engr. Olayinka Alli and Dr. M.B. Olatunji respectively, declared its support for the recently launched Western Nigerian Security Network, codenamed: Amotekun.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said the U-turn made by legal icon, Femi Falana, justified Federal Government’s stance that the establishment of the operation of “Amotekun” was illegal.
The meeting took place on Thursday in Abuja at the Presidential Villa.
The party said the failure to take a decisive step to stem the escalated wave of killings by insurgents; refusal to rejig the security high command; and a lack of commitment to track down and prosecute even confessed perpetrators of mindless killings are all pointers that the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress administration cannot guarantee the security of lives and property in Nigeria.
Bishop Francis Wale-Oke, the National Deputy President, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, has urged governors in the South West to properly legalise the region’s security initiative, Amotekun.
Tinubu said the foundation of the country had not been put at risk with the South West regional security outfit launched by the governors of the zone in a bid to confront the insecurity in their states.
It is now trite that Nigeria in recent times has been trailing through periods of insecurity of lives and property as well as flagrant disrespect for the rule of law, natural justice and human dignity. This fact has in recent months been unhappily emphasised
Adesankan made the clarification on Tuesday during a solidarity rally held by YWC and other groups in Ibadan, Oyo State in support of the Amotekun initiative by the South West governors.
The governor said regional security mechanisms like Amotekun were necessitated by the politicisation and collapse of the centralised national security apparatus in the country
Kolawole, Representing Ajeromi Ifelodun Constituency in the House of Representatives, said government should be open to any initiative that could help in eliminating insecurity in the community.
The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams, has called on traditional rulers in the South West of Nigeria to throw their weight behind the Western Nigerian Security Network, Operation Amotekun, to see the light of the day.
Akeredolu said this on Sunday in a statement by the Ondo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo.
Prominent Yoruba leaders on Thursday called for synergy among regional security outfits in Nigeria to ensure better security and proper coordination in the country.
I don’t think South West will have Amotekun on the basis of many false equivalents and absurd outrage from those who think they are more Yoruba than others. For all its apparent laudable objectives, it appears that the South West Governors didn’t do enough to get the support of the Federal Government on this. The whole Amotekun thing is more political than legal.
Dr. Fayemi, who delivered a paper at the Daily Trust Dialogue, with the theme: “Twenty Years of Democratisation in Nigeria: Strengths, weaknesses and Opportunities,” in Abuja, also defended the establishment of the South West security outfit, Amotekun, saying it is in line with community policing or multi-layered policing, which is very effective in safety and crime prevention.