The Ondo State Attorney General, Kola Olawoye, has disclosed that after the passage of the bills on Amotekun corps, each state would apply to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, for a gun licence for the corps.
It would be recalled that the South-West governors, had at a summit organised by the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, DAWN Commission agreed to set up Operation Amotekun to address killings and kidnapping in the zone.
Though, the federal government, through the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar initially said the security outfit was illegal, but during a meeting in Abuja, the nation’s capital attended by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; the South-West governors and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, both the FG and the governors agreed that the South-West states should give a legal backing to the security outfit.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Ekiti State, Wale Fapohunda, in an interview with The PUNCH, also confirmed that the bill for a law establishing Amotekun corps provided for the establishment of a security network agency to oversee the operations of the corps.
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