While giving a verdict to the controversial case involving the Amotekun and its election duties, a Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, has finally slammed a restraint on the Osun Security Network which has been codenamed Amotekun Corps from participating in Saturday’s gubernatorial election.
The court order had also mandated that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should avoid making use of the Amotekun Corps as part of the personnel to be deployed to provide security in the election.
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The order warned Amotekun not to serve as either security personnel or volunteer in the guber election.
Part of the order reads, “That the 1st defendant (INEC) is hereby restrained from requesting the deployment of the second defendant (AMOTEKUN) as part of the security personnel deployable for the purpose of Osun 2022 governorship election pending the determination of the originating summons filed in the suit.”
Speaking on the court order, Hashim Abioye stated, “With this order, it is forbidden for the INEC to make use of Amotekun as part of the security personnel to be drafted for the election.
“As I speak to you, those concerned, the INEC, police and other relevant agencies, have been appropriately served.”
In another report, the Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has asserted that members of the South West security outfit, Amotekun, would no longer wait for herdsmen and bandits terrorising the state to attack the people, but have resolved to take the battle to them in the forest.
He also noted that since the criminals acquired prohibited and sophisticated arms to carry out their nefarious activities without check, the governors may be compelled to acquire their own weapons to confront them headlong.
Speaking during the Politics Today programme on Channels Television, on Monday which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York.
Akeredolu decried a situation where criminals are left to acquire illegal weapons, while Nigerians are disposed of their legally acquired weapons. ‘We cannot continue like this any longer. The governors will adopt their own ways to get arms to defend their people,’ he added.
He equally noted that if the worsening security situation is to be controlled, Nigeria must begin to seriously consider the issue of state police, because that is the only way out of this insecurity mess in Nigeria: ‘We know the limitations of our security agencies, which is caused by our perverted federalism. We cannot secure Nigeria with a central police command. We need to have state police. A situation where one command sits in Abuja to give orders to the rest of the country is no longer factional now,’ he said.