Stakeholders at the Lagos State House of Assembly Public Hearing on Amotekun Bill, including opposition Peoples Democratic Party, on Monday pledged their support for the establishment of the security outfit in the state.
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The Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Oyo State chapter has called for the inclusion of its members in the proposed Amotekun initiative in the state.
In a statement signed by the Convener of YWC, Prof. Banji Akintoye, the group said this was imperative since the Amotekun teams would be defending their localities
The Ekiti State Ministry of Justice says it will immediately commence the translation of the laws of the state, including that of Amotekun security outfit, into Yoruba language.
Our unity only promotes hokey pokey game of cabal where millions of thoroughly tyrannised Nigerians are forced to coexist by force under the barrel of the gun
The South West Regional Security Operation, code-named Operation Amotekun, has finally been adopted by Governors of all states in the South West and the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu.
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.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s façade of buoyant optimism of winning the war against the insane recklessness of bloody insecurity is punctured by the daily servings of more tragic news of kidnappings and deadly killings by bandits in our society
The Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State has accused Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of using the personnel of Operation Amotekun to scuttle the All Progressives Congress chairmanship primaries in Owo Local Government Area.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has dismissed the speculation that his Tuesday’s meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari was meant to discuss Amotekun, the South West security outfit.
The South West chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has called on governors of the six states in the geopolitical zone to expedite action on the Western Nigeria Security Network, codenamed Amotekun, by recruiting and deploying personnel to the nooks and crannies of the region.
These requests formed part of the resolutions of the PANDEF at the end of its expanded National Executive Committee meeting in Benin, the Edo State capital
The recent furore over the creation of Amotekun and the caliphate Fulani’s bull dog reaction to its existence is a clear demonstration of their unhidden agenda to keep south western Nigeria under perpetual captivity, slavery and domination
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.
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.