Amotekun: AGF is talking rubbish, says Afenifere Chief

*Yoruba leader: nobody questioned Hisbah creation

Chairman of Afenifere Renewal Group, Chief Olawale Oshun has
described Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the
Federation, Abubakar Malami’s statement that a regional security
outfit, Amotekun, is illegal as rubbish.

Chief Oshun said Malami should also declare Hisbah Corps, (a
religious police force responsible for the enforcement of Sharia)
and Civilian Joint Task Force in the Northeast illegal.

“He is talking arrant nonsense. Let him declare Hisbah police in
the 10 Northern states illegal and also let him declare the
Civilian Joint Task Force in the Northeast. He is talking rubbish,
arrant nonsense. Those are not Nigerian police institutions and
they are not Nigerian security institutions but they were created
because there is a need; Amotekun was created because there is a
need for it. He is talking nonsense,” Chief Oshun said.

The former Chief Whip of the House of Representatives urged the
governors of the Southwest to go ahead with the implementation of
the Amotekun.

“That is what the people of the region want. The governors must
go ahead. This country belongs to all of us. They must go ahead,”
he said.

Leader of the Yoruba World Congress, Prof. Banji Akintoye, said
Malami’s statement shows one thing very conclusively that the
people controlling Federal Government do not have the welfare of
the people Southwest at heart and “we will look at that and decide
what we want to do.”

Akintoye, a renowned historian, the Northerners have created
many society-controlled organisations in the north.

“They went to create Sharia policemen that can arrest anybody.
We, in the south, never questioned that; nobody in Nigeria
questioned that. What we have set up is not another police force.
We have not set up anything that conflicts with what the
constitution provides for and so, we are in a good condition to
defend our interests now, that all. The Yoruba people must be ready
to defend their interest under the law,” he said.

He told the southwest governors to the bull by the horn.

“This does not mean a confrontation with the Federal government.
Lead us now, and we will follow you. Can a man elected by a people
from x states refused to defend his people when they are under
pressure? The answer is No. the governors have a job to do and we
look forward to them to do it and as they do it, they are assure of
our supports,” he said.

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