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FG, Southwest Governors finally agree on Amotekun
A meeting between Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and the governors of the South-West states that held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja seems to have resolved a long battle over the South-West Security Operations, codename – Amotekun
A tweet by Laolu Akande, Media aide to Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, indicates the Federal Government finally settled and agreed for the security operations.
Details of the meeting is yet to follow
But the agenda of the meeting was the security outfit, Operation Amotekun, recently launched by the states in the zone.
The minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, attended the meeting.
The Federal Government had opposed it as it declared it “illegal” in a statement released through Malami’s office.
The government had said it had a policy on community policing, which had been approved by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari ( retd. ), as against the regional Amotekun format.
However, the governors had insisted they would not dump Amotekun and sought rather to meet with the Presidency in the hope that the differences would be ironed out.
