• Yoruba elders seek strengthening of Amotekun
• Oyo Assembly urges Makinde to constitute security trust fund board
Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, yesterday, said that all the governors of the South-West states are united on the matter of security, saying that they are collaborating on the issue.
Oyebanji stated this while receiving a delegation of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, led by Ondo State Chairman of the group, Korede Duyile, who came on a condolence visit to his office in Ado-Ekiti to commiserate with the government and people of Ekiti State over the killing of two traditional rulers and abduction of some pupils of a private school and their teachers that had since regained freedom from the kidnappers’ den.
Earlier, the Afenifere leaders, who lamented the killing of the obas and abduction of the school children and their teachers, called for the restructuring of the country to tackle security and other challenges.
MEANWHILE, the Oyo State House of Assembly, yesterday, made a passionate appeal to Governor SeyiMakinde to constitute the State Security Trust Fund Board.
The appeal was contained in the report of the House Committee on Security and Strategy on its oversight visit to the office of the Executive Assistant on Security Matters, Oyo State Security Trust Fund and Oyo State Security Network Agency (Amotekun).
The Afenifere leaders stressed the need to strengthen the South-West Security Network, codenamed Amotekun Corps, with necessary arms that would make the officers effective in tackling all forms of security infiltration into the region. They also called for an urgent review of the Constitution, which they opined had become obsolete looking at the realities of the current situation.
