Former Chairman of opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Atonavod Yoruba land, Chief Olabode George, has said that only lawless marauders and hit men in the country should fear the emergence of South West Security outfit, Amotekun.
In a press statement by his media aide, Uthman Shodipe, he said that the outfit was borne out of extensive consultation by governors from the region because of her security challenges.
Said he, “the security initiative of the six Southwest states that gave birth to a protective cordon codenamed, Amotekun, is largely a necessary and proactive response to the widening insecurity, the seemingly loose banditry and the marauding licentiousness that have ravaged virtually all parts of Yorubaland.”
According to him, the South west governors, “did not jump into the fray in some hurried unreflection in the creation of this self-protective, self-preservation security umbrella across their region. ”
He maintained further that contrary to some beliefs, “The initiative is a product of over six months deliberations by various stakeholders on how best to protect their people who are murdered in their farmlands, savaged on the roads, kidnapped on the fields, cudgeled and ravaged in the sanctity of their private hearths.”
George declared further that the new security outfit, Amotekun, is not some unthoughtful fancy of the governors trying to create a nebulous counterforce to the existing security structure as some uninformed would put it adding that,” It is largely to enhance and strengthen the subsisting law enforcement agencies as it is already well established in most parts of the North.”
The former chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority observed that as of now, the country is already on the very edge of tenterhooks.”
He cautioned that the prevalent atmosphere of suspicion and what he described as, “the vile alarm about some secret agenda or the vain recourse to some ethnic national appropriation do not augur well for anyone.”
He, however, declared that the outfit is a threat to those he described as, “the wandering marauders, the murderous goon-squad and all kinds of assorted outlaws whose actions make the Nigerian Union itself vulnerable and wobbly.”
As a result, he called on all to support the Amotekun ” in that pristine design as a deterrent to roguish outlaws roaming Yorubaland. “
