Amotekun: Lagos Assembly passes bill into law

Amotekun: Lagos Assembly passes bill into law

- Lagos state assembly has passed Amotekun bill

- The House amended an existing law on the Neighbourhood Safety Corps to accommodate Amotekun

- Meanwhile, other states House of Assembly enacted theirs as a new bill

The Lagos state House of Assembly on Tuesday, March 3, passed the bill on Amotekun after it scaled the third reading by the lawmakers.

Before it was passed into law, Speaker Mudashiru Obasa and his colleagues took a close and final look at the bill, which seeks to unify the proposed law that would guide the security outfit jointly established by the governors from the southwestern zone of the country.

While the other states House of Assembly enacted theirs as a new bill, the lawmakers at the Lagos Assembly agreed to amend an existing law on the Neighbourhood Safety Corps to accommodate Amotekun.

At plenary, the bill was announced by the majority leader of the House, Sanai Agunbiade, shortly before its passage.

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Days before its passage, the state House of Assembly had held a public hearing where arguments and memoranda were considered and taken in relation to the bill, part of which included that the operatives would carry licensed arms.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that Oyo state House of Assembly on Tuesday, March 3, passed the Oyo State Security Network Agency Bill, 2020 codenamed Operation Amotekun.

The Nation reports that the bill was considered clause by clause before the third reading and final adoption and passage.

Legit.ng gathers that the lawmakers added local and traditional flavour to the historic bill as many of them wore customised outfits in the shade of leopard skin.

Some of the lawmakers allegedly wore amulets, armbands depicting combat-ready atmosphere, while they unanimously reechoed the whining of the leopard the moment the speaker, Adebo Ogundoyin hit the gavel passing the bill into law.

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Earlier, Legit.ng reported that a single legal document for the operation of the Amotekun security outfit had been adopted by the six Houses of Assembly in the southwest on Wednesday, February 26, across the region.

Bamidele Oleyelogun, the speaker Ondo state House of Assembly disclosed this information after a meeting with all six attorneys-general from all the states in Ibadan.

Oleyelogun, who also doubled as the chairman of the conference of speakers of southwest states, said the uniformity of the bill would ensure synergy of operation in terms of working relationship, intelligence sharing, training, and others among the Amotekun Corps in the six southwest states.

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