The meeting took place on Thursday in Abuja at the Presidential Villa.
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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.
Adams said this in a letter he sent to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, over the Federal Government’s stance on Amotekun on Wednesday.
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, had on Tuesday declared the security outfit as illegal
The leader of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Yerima Shettima, has expressed support for the newly-inaugurated security outfit in the South West, Amotekun, saying he has been an advocate of Community Policing all along.
Ogunwusi stated this on Thursday in Ibadan during the launching of Amotekun by the governors of the South West region.
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Wednesday said the joint security outfit, “Amotekun,” initiated by the six governors in the zone would commence work on Janury 9.
The Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has revealed details of the state’s security architecture, saying the state was ready to launch the Oyo State Development Association for Socio-Economic Renaissance and the state’s Vigilante Services.
The Ondo State Government on Thursday said it would launch ‘Operation Amotekun’ to curb the security challenges in the South West Zone.