Governor of Ondo State on Tuesday inaugurated the Ondo State Security Network Agency also known as Operation Amotekun.
No fewer than 192 recruited members of the corps were inaugurated at the ceremony.
The inauguration of the agency took place at the Gani Fawehimi Arcade in Akure the state capital, speaking at the inception the Governor (Akeredolu) said with the Amotekun in operation, there would be no more room for all kinds behaviors that are contrary to the criminal law.
Akeredolu stated that with Amotekun inauguration attacks on high-ways and on farmland by bandits will be an occurrence of the past.
He also stated that the inauguration of the state force does not correlate with his second term bid, and should not be labeled as such.
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 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,” Akeredolu declared.
A bill was passed on setting up the security agency into law by the state House of Assembly, and shortly after, the bill was signed into law by the State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN.
The Amotekun corps Commander, Mr Adetunji Adeleye, said the personnel have been trained in a joint effort with various security agencies in the state.
He further recapitulated that the corps through its robust intelligence will implement Strict and uncompromising application of the law to guide and protect the people of the state.
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