Ondo State Government has inaugurated the State Security Network Agency popularly known as Operation Amotekun.
Amotekun’s top brass
Speaking on Tuesday at the inauguration, Ondo state governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, assured that no criminal element shall trouble the relative peace enjoyed in the state as Amotekun begins Operation.
The Governor stressed that with a workable synergy among the leadership of the security agencies and that of Amotekun, a water-tight strategies capable of arresting crimes even before they occur would be deployed.
The Governor recalled that many people felt he was putting his second term ambition on the line when the Amotekun Corps was launched in Ibadan in January this year.
”And I told them, time and again, that my ambition is not worth the insecurities that our people are confronted with, where at some point, people were afraid of travelling out of the State.”
“It was so horrible that marauders laid siege to the highways, as well as in the farmlands, waiting to devour anyone in sight. With the launch of Amotekun, we resolved that it shall be no retreat, no surrender. We are not going to be intimidated or blackmailed,” Akeredolu said.
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