The presidency has declared that the western Nigeria security
outfit codenamed Operation Amotekun will be
structured based on frameworks determined by the Inspector-General
of Police, Mohammed Adamu.
This position was made known on Tuesday by Mallam Garba
Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President
Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity during Channels
Television’s Sunrise Daily programme.
retwtr.com recalls the Governors of the
Western states had jointly created the Western Nigerian Security
Network a.k.a Operation Amotekun as part of efforts to combat
kidnappings, banditry, and other forms of insecurity in the
region.
The presidential spokesperson has now suggested that the
operation of the group and other similar outfits will be controlled
based on community policing guidelines to be put in place across
the country by the Inspector-General of Police.
“Whatever name they go by, Amotekun or whatever, will be
streamlined and they will be run in accordance with the structure
as defined by the Inspector-General of Police. They will be
localised, they will be owned by local communities, they will be
managed by them.”
“You know the constitution of the committees will be defined
as including council chairmen, traditional rulers, religious
leaders, civil society groups and all of that. So, you are going to
have a single type structure of community policing permitted all
across the country and whatever is not in line with this does not
have a place in the scheme of things. That is my
understanding.
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They can choose their nomenclature, it doesn’t make a
difference. Structurally, there is a governance structure for all
state and local council policing mechanisms and this should abide
in all of the states.
“Mind you, even in the case of Amotekun, there is no law
that is regionally binding on the mechanism put in place. Each
state parliament put together their own legislation, yes there are
similarities in so many ways but it doesn’t take away the fact that
each state Amotekun is an initiative of a given state in the
South-West.
“Ownership is meant to be by communities, by local councils,
by the states. Yes, it is in response to agitations for state
police but then it is the answer we now have given all the
experiences we have in the country. The N13bn approved by the
Federal Government for community policing will be used for
training, public enlightenment, and equipment,” Shehu
said.
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