The Government Should Not See Amotekun As A Threat – Bode George

Posted by: Folamidavid in News, Politics Jan 17, 2020

Ex Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George, has said Amotekun should not be used as an agenda to push Nigeria to war, even if it has to be supported.

According to him, Amotekun has to be accepted and not blasted by some Northern groups.

He believes Amotekun is a compulsory and proactive response to the insecurity issues in the Southwest part of Nigeria.

He added that the new group should not be seen as a threat by the government.

His words, “The security initiative of the six Southwest states that gave birth to a protective cordon codenamed Amotekun is largely a necessary and proactive response to the widening insecurity, the seemingly loose banditry and the marauding licentiousness that have ravaged virtually all parts of Yorubaland.

The governors did not jump into the fray in some hurried unreflection in the creation of this self-protective, self-preservation security umbrella across their region.

“The initiative is a product of over six months deliberations by various stakeholders on how best to protect their people who are murdered in their farmlands, savaged on the roads, kidnapped on the fields, cudgeled and ravaged in the sanctity of their private hearths.

“Indeed Amotekun is not some unthoughtful fancy of the governors trying to create a nebulous counterforce to the existing security structure as some uninformed would put it. It is largely to enhance and strengthen the subsisting law enforcement agencies as it is already well established in most parts of the North.

“Our nation is already on the very edge of tenterhooks. The drumbeats of suspicions, the vile alarm about some secret agenda or the vain recourse to some ethnic national appropriation do not augur well for anyone.”

“Amotekun is not a challenge or a threat to anybody save the wandering marauders, the murderous goon-squad and all kinds of assorted outlaws whose actions make the Nigerian Union itself vulnerable and wobbly. We should all support Amotekun in that pristine design as a deterrent to roguish outlaws roaming Yorubaland.”