Governor Akerodolu Inaugurates Indigenous Security Outfit, Amotekun (Photos)

Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has inaugurated an indigenous safety net called "Operation Amotekun".

Akeredolu led the opening ceremony of the "Ondo State Security Network Agency" which was placed yesterday, August 11, 2020.

This is approaching several months after the bill establishing the security point was approved by the State Assembly House and signed by the Governor.

Speaking during the opening ceremony, Governor Akeredolu assured that with a viable synergy between the leaders of the security agencies and that of Amotekun
, a water-tight strategy capable of arresting crimes even before they occur would be deployed.

Akeredolu who reassured people of the state that the forthcoming election in the state would be very peaceful in the ceremony in which no fewer than 192 recruited members of the corps were inaugurated, stated that community policing became necessary to curb all forms of insecurity in the state.

In his words… “It was so horrible that marauders laid siege to the highways as well as in the farmlands waiting to kidnap or devour anyone in sight. With the launch of the Amotekun, we resolved that it shall be no retreat, no surrender. We are not going to be intimidated or blackmailed.
“It is incontrovertible that the existing security framework is being overstretched and we had to devise a means of confronting the challenge of insecurity head-on. That was when the concept of Amotekun came up. As Yorubas, we are not known to surrender to our adversaries and if our forebears did not, we should not.

“On 4th March, this year, just two months after the launch of Amotekun in Ibadan, the Bill setting up the Corps was signed into law, after diligent and thorough work by the State House of Assembly. The import of this is that the Amotekun Corps is now a legal entity, not just the idea of an individual.
“I am saying it 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.”

See more photos from the inauguration ceremony below…

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