The bandits: Awali Atine, Ibrahim Abu, Shuaib Balau, Ibrahim Musa, Abdullah Masika and Umar Aliu Masika, all of Bororo Fulani ethnic group, were arrested along Okeho-Ilua and Okeho-Iseyin Road at about 4am.
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The deceased operative, Suleiman Quadir, was said to have been killed in an ambush at the Living Farms in Fiditi on Tuesday.
Speaking during the inauguration in Abeokuta the governor noted that the operatives of the Amotekun security outfit had been carefully chosen and trained to secure lives and property.
Makinde maintained that as part of measures to improve the security situation in the state, the administration has set up a Security Task Force comprising cabinet members and heads of security agencies, including Operation Burst and Amotekun.
ASP Sunday Abutu, the spokesman of the Ekiti State Police Command, confirmed the development to newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Friday
SWSSG is an amalgam of Amotekun and all other existing security support systems and is to be led by the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams.
This was made known on Monday when the State Police Commissioner, Ngozi Onadeko, paid a courtesy visit to the Oyo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof Oyelowo Oyewo (SAN), at the Boardroom of the Ministry.
Igboho made this declaration in a video interview released in 2020.
Well, a Professor of History from the University of Ibadan, Olutayo Charles Adesina, has attempted to provide answers.
The advice came from the Nigerian Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern.
The group equally implored federal security agencies to collaborate and support the local initiative, even as it lauded Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State for his efforts in securing the state, especially the important role he played in the setting up of Amotekun alongside other governors of the South West.
The reason for the arrest was yet unknown as at press time, but it might not be unconnected with cultism activities
Igboho had given quit notice to the Hausa-Fulani in Igangan, Oke Ogun area of Oyo State, leading his supporters to flush them out on Friday.
Afenifere’s position was contained in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, on Wednesday.
It therefore voted N1.4billion for the State Security Network, codenamed Amotekun Corps, in its 2021 budget.
I believe even if the best police or security agencies in the world were transposed to Nigeria, in no time, they will become afflicted by the general societal malaise – corruption, brutality, bribery and indiscipline. Every society gets the kind of police it deserves.
The State Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Olaolu Olabimtan, stated this when he and his counterpart in the Ministry of Finance, Dapo Okuboyejo, received the National Economic Council Implementation Committee delegation from Abuja at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
Adetokunbo, a don at the University of Lagos, in a statement in Lagos on Saturday, said the invasion of states was rapidly becoming a national trend, a frightening development.
These allegations were contained in a press statement by the Director of the organisation, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, on Thursday
The Command’s spokesman, CSP Olugbenga Fadeyi, quoted the Commissioner in a statement issued in Ibadan on Tuesday as saying that the news was an attempt to portray the police as uncooperative.