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'We Will Procure Arms For Amotekun', Akeredolu Blasts FG

‘We Will Procure Arms For Amotekun’, Akeredolu Blasts FG

September 23, 2022 12:32 am

Chairman, Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has chastised the Federal Government on its alleged approval of arms for a state-owned security outfit in Katsina.

Akeredolu accused the Federal Government for being sectional in its activities, saying for the Federal Government to have approved arms for the Katsina State-owned security outfit and deny the same for Amotekun showed sectionalism.

Notwithstanding, the non-approval of the Federal Government for Amotekun to carry arms, Akeredolu said his government would go ahead to procure arms for the security outfit.

He said: “We want to reiterate that what is …

Amotekun Apprehends Weed Sellers In Ogun

Amotekun Apprehends Weed Sellers In Ogun

August 23, 2022 5:46 am

The Amotekun Corps in Ogun State has announced the arrest of about seven suspected Indian hemp sellers while fighting over customers in Ogun State.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the arrested suspects are also members of Eiye and Aiye cult groups.

The Amotekun Commander in Ogun, David Akinremi, identified the suspects, who are all men between 25 and 40 years, to include: Alimi Raimi, Ayotunde Onakoya, Ogunmade Seun, Ayodele Oreoluwakintan, Taofeek Shita-bay, Ibikunle Gbengas, and Ebiruga Oluwaseun.

Akinremi revealed that they were nabbed in connection with a case of conspiracy and cultism.

Read Also: Amotekun Nabs Man Impersonating

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Nigerian Soldiers And Amotekun Fought Over Seized Cows

Nigerian Soldiers And Amotekun Fought Over Seized Cows

April 6, 2022 1:38 am

As a result of the seizure of 100 cows in Akure by the Ondo State Security Network, collectively called the Amotekun Corps, there was some sort of conflict between the 32 Artillery Brigade and the Ondo State Security Network on Tuesday.

Africa Daily News, New York reports, that the cows were taken because of a state law that prohibits open grazing.

Read Also: Tension As Amotekun Arrests 400 Cows In Ondo

The cows were seized after Amotekun’s operatives responded to farmers’  distress signals.

Farmers from Akure’s Oke Aro area reported that the cows had nibbled on their crops and …

Nigerian Soldiers And Amotekun Fought Over Seized Cows

Presidency’s Move To Control Amotekun Is Arrant Nonsense – Adebanjo

August 26, 2020 9:14 am

Elder statesman, Chief Ayo Adebanjo on Tuesday attacked the presidency for saying that the Inspector General of Police would determine the structure of Southwest regional security outfit, Amotekun.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu had said during a programme on Channels TV that the IGP would determine the structure of Amotekun.

Read Also: Akeredolu Inaugurates Amotekun In Ondo

Shehu was speaking on the approval of ₦13bn by the Federal Government for community policing across the 36 states of the federation.

He said, “Whatever name they go by, Amotekun or whatever, will be streamlined and …

Hate Speech: Igbo Muslims Fleeing Their Homes - MURIC

Leave The Fulani Alone – MURIC Warns Amotekun

June 26, 2020 12:30 pm

An Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has strongly warned the South West security outfit, Amotekun, to leave the Fulani alone and stop endangering the lives of Yoruba people living in the North and other regions of the country.

MURIC said that Amotekun must focus its attention on attacks on the people of Ile-Ife by thugs sponsored by illegal miners and not on Fulani herdsmen. MURIC, however, commended Amotekun for its alertness, but tasked it on professionalism and detribalized security consciousness.

Read Also: Amotekun: MURIC Reveals Plots To Create Oduduwa Republic

The organization also cautioned Amotekun …

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Amotekun Is A Beautiful Idea – Buhari Media Org.

February 16, 2020 4:34 am

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) says community policing will assist in complementing Federal Government security efforts to sniff out criminal elements in the country.

BMO Chairman, Mr Niyi Akinsiju, said this while fielding questions from reporters in Abuja on Sunday.

He noted that states, community, villages and hamlets needed volunteered security units to complement policing activities in the country.

Akinsiju said:

“Nothing stops state, community, villages, hamlets from having volunteered security units. I support area community policing and whatever form of civil society constituted policing activities.

“Because we are as a country getting sophisticated by the day, and as a

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Ondo People Cannot Continue To Live In Fear – Akeredolu

Ondo Govt Approves Draft Bill For Scrutiny On Amotekun

February 13, 2020 1:48 pm

Ondo State Government on Wednesday approved a draft bill of the Ondo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps, codenamed operation Amotekun, for passage into law.

According to a statement issued by Mr Donald Ojogo, Commissioner for Information and Orientation, the bill would be transmitted to the State House of Assembly for legislative scrutiny after which it would be passed into law.

He explained that the details contained in the bill was presented by the Commissioner for Justice in an exhaustive session of deliberations by the state executive members.

Read Also: Amotekun Vs Shege Ka Fasa – Balarabe Musa

“The …

Former governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa

Amotekun Vs Shege Ka Fasa – Balarabe Musa

February 9, 2020 2:04 am

Former governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa is furious again. When he undertook an extravagant review of the various regional security outfits being proposed by some regional blocs last Thursday, he concluded that Nigeria was headed for anarchy.

As he puts it, the latest regional security outfit formed by the Coalition of Northern Groups which announced its presence last week was nothing but a direct challenge to the one floated by the Southwest governors.

According to Musa, “we are facing what we can compare at the moment more than what happened in Somalia and what is still …

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Amotekun: Recruit Non-Yorubas Experienced In Security

February 8, 2020 9:41 am

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party and former governorship aspirant in Delta state, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has suggested that non -orubas, who have stayed in the South West region for more than 10 years and profiled as patriotic citizens, should also be recruited into Amotekun.

Speaking with Journalists in Warri yesterday while reacting to the opposition by Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACABAN) to the establishment of the South West Security outfit, Chief Onuesoke said his suggestion was borne out of the fact that Amotekun was to protect all residents in that region and to also stave …

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Southern Kaduna: SOKAPU Vows To Duplicate Amotekun

February 2, 2020 8:29 am
To help develop their own community vigilante system and protect residents from suspected Fulani bandits, the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, says they are studying the Western Nigeria Security Network, ”Operation Amotekun”.

The union says the resolve to understudy Amotekun follows the incessant attacks and killings that have gone unabated in Southern Kaduna in recent years.

President of the Union, Comrade Jonathan Asake, disclosed that no fewer than 35 people have been killed, 10 communities sacked and about 115 persons abducted during serial attacks by bandits which commenced on January 6, 2020 alone.

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Our Gods Will Mysteriously Kill Anyone Opposing Amotekun

February 1, 2020 1:01 pm
The Are Ona kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has warned against opposing the Southwest security outfit, Amotekun.

Adams warned that anyone who opposes Amotekun would die “mysteriously” by the gods of the land.

Speaking at a South-West Security Stakeholders Group summit in Osogbo, Osun State on Friday, Adams warned that people of Southwest would not tolerate any form of threat over its decision to ensure the security of the region.

He said: “We want everyone out there to know that the people of this region would not tolerate any form of threats from any individual or groups in relation to

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‘Mbaka Not Prophet Of God, Amotekun Will Turn Terrorist’

February 1, 2020 2:37 am
Primate Elijah Ayodele, the founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, has attacked the Spiritual leader of the Adoration Minister, Enugu, Father Ejike Mbaka, saying the fiery preacher is not a prophet of God.

Ayodele, a newly appointed United Nations Peace Ambassador, also told the Sun that the newly established security outfit in the South West, Amotekun, will fail.

DAILY POST reported that Mbaka had prophesied that the governorship candidate of the APC, Senator Hope Uzodinma, will take over from Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as Imo Governor in 2020.

Mbaka’s prophecy was said to have

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