- To agree on legal framework for regional security network
Iyobosa Uwugiaren, Omololu Ogunmade, Alex Enumah in Abuja and Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan
The federal government and governors from the South-west yesterday found a political solution to the growing rift over the regional security outfit, Amotekun.
They both agreed to develop a legal framework for the outfit, whose launch has pitted the people of the region against the federal government, especially in the wake of the declaration by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), that it is illegal.
They also agreed that the regional security network would have to be aligned with the federal government’s community policing policy.
Malami had insisted earlier yesterday that any security arrangement not supported by law remained illegal.
But speakers of Houses of Assembly in the geo-political zone rallied behind the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), code named Amotekun, pledging…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
