Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State yesterday said that the bill for the establishment of the Western Nigeria security network codenamed Amotekun would be signed into law simultaneously by the South west governors on February 14.
Receiving the draft from the State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Wale Fapohunda, in his office in Ado Ekiti, Fayemi reiterated that the security network was designed to protect both indigenes and other residents in the six states of the south west zone.
According to the governor, the vision of anybody who is a patriot and a democract should be to guarantee the safety, security and well being of Nigerians, wondering why a lot of people still misconceive the motive behind Amotekun.
Fayemi said that the initiative was a logical extension of the community policing initiative recently assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari and which the inspector general of police had communicated to all the police formations across the country.
“The Amotekun was put together by governors from south west so that our highways are free of banditry, of armed robbery, of kidnapping, of all forms of brigandage and criminality in our states.”
Fayemi said the six governors in the south west considered it a point of duty to guarantee the safety and security of those that legitimately and legally reside in the six states of the zone regardless of where they come from.
Source: Guardian Newspaper
