Speech on the Passing Out Parade of the Oyo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun
When the tale of the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Amotekun is told, it will likely be on file that it become officially launched on January 9, 2020. However, the Amotekun journey started out earlier. In July 2019, the six states of the southwest, namely Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo States, agreed to set up this outfit.
Amotekun is indeed a primary of its type protection organisation due to the fact it's far a local safety outfit initiated with the aid of one in all Nigeria's six geopolitical zones.
History will also nation that the headquarters is here in Oyo State. Since its founding, we have been taking steps to ensure that the safety outfit kicks off operations. In March 2020, the Oyo State House of Assembly handed the Oyo State Security Network Agency Bill 2020, which I signed into law some days later.
Although COVID-19 and different logistical problems not on time the recruitment process, we ran an open and obvious recruitment process that culminated in pronouncing the 1,500 a success applicants' names in October 2020. Shortly after that, their training commenced inside the first week of November. Today we are right here to witness the passing out parade of the pioneer members of the Amotekun Corps.
Security has continually been an issue close to my coronary heart. While on the marketing campaign trail, I spoke about how we may want to address lack of confidence in Oyo State. We outlined clean plans in our manifesto, the Roadmap to Accelerated Development in Oyo State 2019-2023. And so, when we came into office, we went beforehand to make protection one of the pillars of our administration.
Our actions had been based on the fact that if our nation is insecure, we can't appeal to investment, whether overseas or local. So far, we've supported our federal protection clothes, who do their satisfactory to guard our people. We provided them with verbal exchange gadgets and patrol vehicles. More recently, we requested for and established just this past May 2020, the Police Mobile Force seventy two Squadron at Ago-Are and provided them with patrol motors for the outfit's operations.
But as I even have argued on diverse fora, for governors to sincerely play the position of Chief Security Officers of their states, state policing is the way forward. I am assured that sooner or later, we will get enough assist on the country wide level to attain that constitutional review.
But, for now, we can settle for the next exceptional factor.
The Western Nigeria Security Network, codenamed Amotekun, is an unbiased outfit. Members will answer to the state governors, however they'll be running with the federal security organizations.
Some of the primary features of the Amotekun Corps as accepted via law encompass: Collaborating with and supporting the Nigeria Police and other security corporations in accumulating records. They will be concerned in crime, the investigation of crime, arrest, and prosecution of men and women suspected of kidnapping, terrorism, destruction of livelihood, crook damage to property, cultism, motorway robbery, and some other illegal sports.
They can also be worried in habitual day and night time patrols on primary roads and faraway regions. Members of the corps can be drafted to all of the 351 wards in Oyo State. They could be our own network police in order that their presence may be felt everywhere. This guarantees that offenders are quick diagnosed, arrested, registered, and right away handed over to the nearest police station or put up. As I stated all through one in all my speeches following the End SARS protests, that is one outfit that I can boldly say maintain me responsible for the moves of the members.
Therefore, allow me state to you 1,500 pioneers of the Amotekun Corps that you have to continue to be outstanding examples in provider. You are to work for the human beings. You aren't known as to bother or intimidate the humans. Instead, showcase the highest stage of professionalism within the discharge of your responsibilities. Remember that there are limits in your authority, and constantly observe directives from the chain of command.
We have appointed certified guys as chairman and commandant of the Amotekun Corps, the people of Retired General Ajibola Kunle Togun and Retired Colonel Olayanju Olayinka. We also produce other eminent men and women on the board. I am confident that underneath them, the Amotekun Corps will stay up to their targets.
As I said at some point of the reliable launch of this outfit in January 2020, our local integration, via Amotekun, should be seen in a single mild. We are coming collectively to combat a common enemy. That enemy is not Nigeria; the enemies are the factors among us and their associates who are determined to motive commotion inside our states' borders and threaten our peaceful coexistence.
And on this notice, I declare the Oyo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun operational.
~ Governor Seyi Makinde, November 18, 2020
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