Amotekun: Afenifere urges Kwara government to join security initiative

- The Kwara state chapter of Afenifere has urged the governor of Kwara state, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, to join Operation Amotekun

- The group said Kwara state is also facing security challenges similar to that of the southwest, particularly herdsmen crisis

- Meanwhile, southwest states have passed into laws the bills drafted to provide legal framework for Operation Amotekun

The Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has urged the governor of Kwara state, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, to join Operation Amotekun, the regional security initiative created by the southwest governors.

The Nation reports that the group made the call after a meeting of its Kwara state chapter which was held in Ilorin, the capital of the north-central state.

A statement by the Kwara chapter if the Yoruba group said Kwara state shares a linguistic and cultural affinity with the southwest and is also facing the challenges of the herdsmen crisis.

The group lamented that herdsmen are destroying farms in the state while the indigenes are helpless.

It, therefore, called on the Kwara state governor to key into the security initiative to "prevent unnecessary loss of lives, loss of property and anguish that herdsmen/community clashes could bring”.

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Meanwhile, the Oyo State House of Assembly on Tuesday, March 3, passed the Oyo State Security Network Agency Bill, 2020 codenamed Operation Amotekun.

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

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

Similarly, the Lagos state House of Assembly has 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.

Also, the Ekiti and Ogun states Houses of Assembly, the Ogun state House of Assembly on have passed their bills on the new security outfit.

The majority leader of the Ogun state assembly, Yusuf Sherif, had presented the report of the committee on security and strategy during plenary in Abeokuta.

He stated that the committee recommended that the bill be passed as approved by the conference of speakers of the southwest legislature.

Meanwhile, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has promised that Nigeria would begin to reap reward of the Operation Amotekun very soon.

He made the disclosure during the opening of a three-day annual general conference of Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church of Nigeria, entitled: Enlarge the place of thy tent, at the sacred Cherubim and Seraphim Church general headquarters’ secretariat, Ashi, Orita Bashorun area of Ibadan, the capital of the state.

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