It has been described as absurd and ludicrous by the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) for Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami to Call illegal the initiative (Amotekun) aimed at securing the lives and property of people who voted the governors to power.
Agbede said ‘Amotekun’ ‘’is a Yoruba project and that what the governors did had the blessings of every son and daughter of the Yoruba nation.
Malami on Tuesday described the Yoruba Security Network codenamed Amotekun as an illegal outfit.
The AGF posited that the Amotekun initiative was against the provision of the constitution which vests the power to secure the nation in the Federal Government alone.
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But Col. S. Ade Agbede (rtd), who spoke on behalf of the Senior Elders Forum said: ‘’It sounds absurd and ludicrous that a security initiative made to secure the lives and property of the people that voted the governors into power could be declared illegal.”
‘’Amotekun has come to stay as an outfit to ensure that our people live peacefully and move freely within our God-given space and as law-abiding people, the outfit will operate within the ambit of the law, cooperate with the government security agencies for as long as our rights are not trampled upon.”
He decried that whereas the marauders parading themselves as herdsmen, who have been kidnapping, killing, maiming and assaulting the Yorubas have been moving about freely.
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‘’The Minister would have to tell the whole world the legal instrument that empowers nomadic herdsmen going about with AK 47 without any form of arrest or caution by our security agencies or the Sharia police that are in operation in some states in the northern part of the country,” Agbede said.
Agbede, who described Amotekun as a child of necessity, recalled the gruesome murder of the daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti (Mrs. Olakunrin), the abduction of Chief Olu Falae, the incessant kidnap and killings of other Yoruba sons and daughters too numerous to mention as part of the reasons that made the initiative more compelling.
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Amotekun was launched in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital last Thursday by the six governors in the Southwest zone of the country- Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, and Ondo states.
