In Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, some youths from six States in the Southwest region, yesterday protested against the formation of Amotekun, the Western Nigerian Security Network.
The group under the banner of ‘Yoruba Appraisal Forum’ that spearheaded the protest, wanted Amotekun scrapped across the six states of Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Lagos, Ondo and Ogun States to avoid future calamity.
However, it was revealed by the group that they had uncovered alleged plot to use Amotekun to destabilize the South West and ultimately the entire country, in 2023.
They demanded that the entire Yoruba race would be endangered in 2023 with the existence of Amotekun. They even predicted that the network will be hijacked by politicians for insidious mission in the coming elections.
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Some of the placards they flaunted read:
“Amotekun Will Turn our Youths to Militia Group”,
“Amotekun Can Bring Proliferation of Arms”
“Amotekun Motive, Shine Your Eyes”
While addressing journalists at Ajilosun area where the protest was held, the group’s coordinator, Mr. Adeshina Animasaun, said the project of Amotekun was a laudable one, but insisted that it has been hijacked by those nursing ambition in 2023.
Animasaun appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to rejig the country’s security architecture to prevent resurgence of what he called ‘militia groups’ with tendencies to pose dangers to the lives of the people.
“We call on President Buhari to use his good office to call the Southwest Governors to order by prevailing on them not to sign the Amotekun bills into laws yet, until proper checks about such security are done”, he said.
The group faulted the hurried manners at which the governors conducted the public hearings leading to formation of Amotekun, saying: “it ought to have been done senatorially, rather than bringing few people to the state capitals to contribute in a programme that lasted for 30 minutes”
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“The Southwest governors should be dissuaded from innocently equipping and funding a security outfit that some unscrupulous and wicked individuals have planned to use against the same people the governors have sworn to protect.
“The governors should be made to realize that they should not allow themselves to be railroaded into taking an action they will regret later.
“The nation’s security agencies like police National Intelligence Agency, Defence Intelligence Agency, Department of State Services (DSS) need to profile the current promoters of Amotekun security outfit with a view to ascertaining its real membership and their original intention”, he said.
The group urged the handlers to take note of the warnings issued by Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, former Kaduna State Government, Balarabe Musa, and the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore and others about the hazards inherent in Amotekun.
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