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Amotekun: ‘You ‘re talking rubbish, declare Hisbah, others illegal’ – Afenifere replies Malami

Chief Olawale Oshun, the Chairman  of Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has described Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami’s statement that a Southwest security outfit codenamed ‘ Amotekun’, is illegal as rubbish.

Speaking at the launch of the Western Nigeria Security architecture – Amotekun in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital recently, the Southwest governors insisted that the security of lives and properties of the people in the zone remained paramount to them.

The Governors also clarified that the new outfit would in no way hinder the federal security agencies from performing their constitutionally -assigned duties.

They noted that Operation Amotekun was a community policing response to the security challenges in the South-West and a complementary confidence-boosting strategy to secure the territory.

According to the information scooped from the Nations Newspaper, Chief Oshun further challenged Malami to declare Hisbah Corps, (a religious police force responsible for the enforcement of Sharia) and Civilian Joint Task Force among others in the Northeast illegal.

“He is talking arrant nonsense. Let him declare Hisbah police in the 10 Northern states illegal and also let him declare the Civilian Joint Task Force in the Northeast. He is talking rubbish, arrant nonsense. Those are not Nigerian police institutions and they are not Nigerian security institutions but they were created because there is a need; Amotekun was created because there is a need for it. He is talking nonsense,” the Afenifere Chief submitted.

He, however urged the governors of the Southwest to go ahead with the implementation of the Amotekun.

“That is what the people of the region want. The governors must go ahead. This country belongs to all of us. They must go ahead,” he concluded

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