By Benjamin Omoike More than one year after the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), codenamed Operation Amotekun, was formally launched in Ibadan, Lagos has remained the only state in the region where the outfit is yet to take off. The development, according to observers and analysts, is owing to some powerful political forces bent on […]
The Ondo State Government has inaugurated Operation Amotekun as the State’s Security Network Agency. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu inaugurated the security agency on Tuesday, August 11 at the Gani Fawehimi Arcade in Akure. ALSO READ Amotekun Bill not for Ekiti people alone, but for everybody – Fayemi Akeredolu said with the security agency in operation, there […]
Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun state has described the South-West Security Network, codenamed ‘Operation Amotekun’ as a child of necessity. He said that with the emergence of ‘Amotekun’, the south-west zone has become a safe haven. The governor said this while receiving the leadership of Yoruba Unity Forum who were on a courtesy visit to […]
The approval for the Southwest security outfit code-named “Operation Amotekun” was on Wednesday approved by the Ogun State Government. Ekiti Attorney General submits draft bill on Amotekun to Fayemi The approval took effect at the State Executive Council meeting held at the Executive Chamber of the Governor’s office, Oke Mosan secretariat, Abeokuta. Details shortly…
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi and the Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Adams, have thrown their weights behind the immediate legislative backing for the South West security outfits, code named “Operation Amotekun”. The duo spoke at the 2020 edition of Oodua Festival in Ile-Ife, Osun State. The foremost Yoruba Monarch, however, admonished […]
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has revealed what it hate in the new Southwest States security outfit called Operation Amotekun. MURIC in a statement on Monday by Prof. Ishaq Akintola decried the naming of the security outfit as Operation Amotekun saying “Why ‘Amotekun’ as a name for crying out loud? Research has revealed the biblical […]
The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as The Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor ‘Tunde Bakare, has said that the formation of the newly instituted Western Nigeria Security Network, code-named ‘Operation Amotekun’ and the controversy that greeted it presents an opportunity to examine the foundations of Nigeria’s nationhood and trash the lingering […]
Senate Deputy Minority Leader, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, representing Taraba South Senatorial District on Sunday voiced his endorsement of ‘Operation Amotekun’ recently launched by governors in the south-west zone. He advised other zones to borrow a leaf from the south-west by coming up with their various security networks for a more secured Nigeria. Sen. Bwacha gave […]
The Federal Government has declared the Southwest Security outfit, Operation Amotekun, as an illegal entity not known to the constitution of Nigeria and which can never be allowed to stand. The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, made the declaration in Abuja in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Dr. Umar Gwandu […]
…Says Police stretched to the limits …’Local policing not an effort to hijack role of federal police or compete with FG’ As controversy over the legality of ‘Operation Amotekun’, the security outfit set up by governors of the South West rages, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has thrown his weight behind the decentralisation of policing […]
As controversy over the legality of ‘Operation Amotekun’, the security outfit set up by governors of the south west, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has thrown his weight behind the decentralization of policing in the country. The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) backs the floating of community, state and regional security outfits […]
Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) has counselled the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) to go beyond pronouncement and take the six south west governors to court over the inauguration of the joint security network called ‘Operation Amotekun’. Babalola said it would be tantamount to illegality for Malami to constitute […]
Lagos – Some community leaders in Lagos on Sunday lauded the South West governors’ initiative of launching the “Operation Amotekun” to curb security challenges in the region. Lagos that the new security outfit would help to strengthen the operations of regular security outfits. Governors in the region had on Jan. 9 launched the security outfit […]