Anti-Amotekun Protest Rocks Ekiti
…Says Plans Uncovered to Use Outfit for Political Interest in 2023
POLITICS DIGEST – Barely 24 hours after the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Amotekun was signed into law by Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, youth group from the six states in the South-West region on Tuesday protested in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital against the Security Outfit.
The group under the aegis of ‘Yoruba Appraisal Forum’ protested that the outfit be stopped across the six states of Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Lagos, Ondo and Ogun States to avoid undue tension and calamity.
The group said they had uncovered an alleged plot to use Amotekun to destabilize the South-West and ultimately the entire country in 2023.
It, however, demanded that the entire Yoruba race would be endangered in 2023 with the existence of Amotekun, predicting that the network would be hijacked by politicians for insidious mission in the coming elections.
In its placards, the group said “Amotekun will turn our youths to militia group,” ‘Amotekun motive, Shine Your Eyes’, ‘Amotekun can bring proliferation of Aarms’, among others.”
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Addressing journalists at Ajilosun area where the protest was held, the group’s coordinator, Mr. Adeshina Animasaun, said although the project of Amotekun was a laudable one, it had been hijacked by those nursing ambition in 2023.
Animasaun appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to rejig the country’s security architecture to prevent resurgence of what he called ‘militia groups’ with tendencies to pose dangers to the lives of the people.
He said: “We call on President Buhari to use his good office to call the southwest governors to order by prevailing on them not to sign the Amotekun bills into laws yet, until proper checks about such security are done.
“The public hearings leading to formation of Amotekun ought to have been done senatorially rather than bringing few people to the state capitals to contribute in a programme that lasted for 30 minutes.
“The southwest governors should be dissuaded from innocently equipping and funding a security outfit that some unscrupulous and wicked individuals have planned to use against the same people the governors have sworn to protect.
“The governors should be made to realise that they should not allow themselves to be railroaded into taking an action they will regret later.
“The nation’s security agencies like police National Intelligence Agency, Defence Intelligence Agency, Department of State Services (DSS) need to profile the current promoters of Amotekun security outfit with a view to ascertaining its real membership and their original intention.”
