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Two democratic institutions of the United States – the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and International Republican Institute (IRI) – have expressed concern about the activities of separatist groups and informal security outfits in the South-east and South-west of Nigeria, warning that they could be recipes for election violence in 2023. The international delegation of the […]
Continue ReadingSoldiers detailed with the Joint Security Task Force (JSTF) in Oyo State codenamed Operation Burst and personnel of the Amotekun Corps have started combing forests in the Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo State for criminals. The security agents were deployed after the abduction and killing of a final year student of Ladoke Akintola University […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Amotekun Corps in Ondo State, Nigeria, have intercepted a bus loaded with 500 pieces of daggers concealed under the seats. Also intercepted were weapons with different seizes of knives and guns concealed inside Tigger nut bags. 18 people suspected to be bandits were arrested with the vehicle while two other buses escaped. […]
Continue ReadingAll the South-west governors sat and agreed to set up Amotekun, a regional security outfit over a year ago. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu keyed into that agreement on behalf of Lagosians. But several months down the line, Sanwo-Olu has failed to establish Amotekun in Lagos State. Of the six South-west governors, he is the only one […]
Continue ReadingRecently, the five South-East governors announced the launch of a security outfit codenamed Ebubeagu. Like the use of Amotekun by the South-West governors, the choice of the name “Ebubeagu” generated a controversy over its meaning in English. It was variously interpreted as “the aura of the lion/tiger/leopard.” When Amotekun was launched last year, there were […]
Continue ReadingLagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has explained why Lagos state does not have Amotekun like other South-West states. In an interview on Channels Television, Sanwo-Olu noted that Lagos state has over 7,000 neighbourhood watch personnel who are doing exactly the same thing Amotekun operatives are doing. He added that apart from community policing, the LNSC also […]
Continue ReadingVirtually everything in Nigeria no matter how well-meaning ends up getting ethnicized, or politicized, or religionized. So it is with Operation Amotekun: the Western Nigeria Security Network whose recent launch by the Governors of the South West, on January 9, has thrown up key questions at the heart of the Nigerian dilemma as well as […]
Continue ReadingSince the introduction of Shari’a law in Zamfara state in January 2000, nothing else has tested the sanctity of Nigeria’s practice of federalism like the launch of the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), better known as Operation Amotekun (the Yoruba word for leopard), by the south-western states on January 9, 2020. The stated aim of […]
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