Amotekun in a sentence

The YWC said that Yoruba nation was blessed with millions of men and women who were eager to serve Amotekun and urged that persons recruited and trained for service in Amotekun are, and must be, Yoruba.

File photo: Some of the security vehicles provided by South-West states for the Western Nigeria Security Network, Operation Amotekun.

Mr Amitolu Shittu, has announced his resignation as the pioneer Director General and Field Commander of Osun Security Network Agency, locally known as Amotekun.

Oyo state boosted the Amotekun, mobilized up to 3000 operatives and equipped them.

The Ekiti State Police Command and the Ekiti State Amotekun Corps are yet to react or speak on the matter as at the time of filing in this report.

The former Amotekun commander was said to have died on Monday evening.

The South West already has the Amotekun Corps, Lagos State has the Neighbourhood Watch Corps, Katsina just put in place its own Watch Corps.

Ahead of the yuletide periods, the Western Security Network, code named Amotekun has said nothing less than 1,200 men and officers of the corps were deployed to maintain security with collaboration of other security agencies in Ondo state.

All the Oyo State Amotekun operatives are just without any area of specialization.

A resident named Tinu described the road to Ifon as lonely and dangerous, with Amotekun forces being overwhelmed.

Dismissing fears of abuse, he said when he hosted Southwest Speakers last week: “A lot of people may not know that before we launched Amotekun, some of us went to the Federal Government.

He said Akeredolu dared the Federal Government to create the state Amotekun which could be likened to a state police.

Ondo Amotekun Commander, Akogun Adeleye Adetunji, said operatives of the corps have been deployed to the area even though the incident happened in Kogi State.

Ondo State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps, has launched ‘Operation Safe Ground’ across various parts of the state to prevent the activities of criminals in the state.

The Ogun State Security Network, popularly known as the Amotekun Corps, has thwarted a self-kidnap scheme allegedly staged by a 41-year-old resident, Enitan Awoyemi, in an attempt to evade a debt of around N1 million.

This rising invasion of herders in the Southwest region subsequently led the governors in the six South-West states, with ranking traditional rulers, to form the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed ‘Amotekun’ on January 9, 2020.

According to Kanu, Amotekun had come to stay regardless of the federal government stance on it.

According to Makinde, Operation Amotekun has not in any way violated the Constitution, but rather, it was an intervention to narrow the gaps in security in the South-West.

A file photo of security vehicles for the Operation Amotekun during the launching ceremony.

A former Governor of old Anambra State, who is also a prominent Igbo leader, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, talks about the South-East desire to produce the president in 2023, Amotekun operation and other national issues.