b3llo:
An experienced elder stateman is talking and a common lizard like you is challenging and intelligent advice. Your post is full of sentiment and senselessness... am sure Ur life depends on minimum wage increment. Do you think running a security unit is cheap Nobody here agrees with your long and empty post.

darediamond:


Your Reply is acutely and hopelessly senseless!!

What is intelligent in your babangida's words in face of terrorism? I'm face of destruction of lives and properties down here in Yoruba land by those fulanis and HAUSA elements.

What??

MelesZenawi:


https://www.channelstv.com/2020/01/14/ibb-says-amotekun-not-viable-advises-south-west-governors/?fbclid=IwAR3oHj9PGPdt9gkYJYibmPV8bjkiUjQo3wEMPr1WLwRUBpa0Y0VUaDr5nFM

MelesZenawi:


https://www.channelstv.com/2020/01/14/ibb-says-amotekun-not-viable-advises-south-west-governors/?fbclid=IwAR3oHj9PGPdt9gkYJYibmPV8bjkiUjQo3wEMPr1WLwRUBpa0Y0VUaDr5nFM

MelesZenawi:



Imagine trying to challenge the words and wisdom of IBB.

Very pathetic.

b3llo:
An experienced elder stateman is talking and a common lizard like you is challenging and intelligent advice. Your post is full of sentiment and senselessness... am sure Ur life depends on minimum wage increment. Do you think running a security unit is cheap Nobody here agrees with your long and empty post.

b3llo:
An experienced elder stateman is talking and a common lizard like you is challenging and intelligent advice. Your post is full of sentiment and senselessness... am sure Ur life depends on minimum wage increment. Do you think running a security unit is cheap Nobody here agrees with your long and empty post.

b3llo:
An experienced elder stateman is talking and a common lizard like you is challenging and intelligent advice. Your post is full of sentiment and senselessness... am sure Ur life depends on minimum wage increment. Do you think running a security unit is cheap Nobody here agrees with your long and empty post.

NimrodEndOfDays:
These are the people amongst the elite that work for the British government. Why do you think that people like these only speak when it seems as if the contraption called Nigeria is threatened. These people do not want a place in the world were the black man would be respected and treated like a force amongst the committee of nation's. Behold these are the custodians of enslavement of the black people. The sooner they are eliminated,the better future we would have.

MelesZenawi:



The man is right.

Those red cars and their hunters are not viable.

IpobAntidote:
It's pathetic the way we tend to rush things in Nigeria just to satisfy public noise without really doing good home work.
IBB is right right to some extent.

What these Governors should have done is to first ask the Federal govt for State police via the executive and legislative branches of govt.
If that fails or taking too long, then why not convert all these other agencies into security apparatus such as Lasma and the other neighborhood security agency. The problem I see here is training even with Nigerian police force. Provide excellent training to those in Lasma and other agencies, rename them to Amotekun or whatever but with a mandate to tackle all sorts of law breakers from traffic, stealing, kidnapping and whatever. This way the gov does not have to pay another set of people salaries every month when they still struggling trying to pay current employees.
We do not have enough police, not even close and the ones we have are poorly trained.
Convert all these VIO, Lasma and all other useless agencies into well trained police force with arms. Add a little to their salaries and kapish you have solved many problems with what you already have.

NimrodEndOfDays:
We are not free. These agents are here on Nairaland. Because Nairaland is a medium that is used to dessiminate information by the youths of this country. Notice that there are names that are seen only for a particular cause. When ever a topic is created,you see then appear all of a sudden. There are genuine people here but this forum has been infiltrated.

DarrelCornell:
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lol what happened to Balyz

Iamgrey5:
The op is the Ipob boy running up and down over the internal security issue of a region that doesn't concern him

It's almost as if the failure of the security outfit would make him the most successful person in life

Here is a quick counter to IBB's point though

The vigilante groups that merged into Amotekun have been around for a while e.g. Opc, hunters group, village vigilante, Farmers security groups etc.

While some operate as private security firms, others operate as community police sponsored by State, local government or traditional institutions around their area of operation.

The question is Why Amotekun?

Amotekun simply brings all this various Vigilante groups under one central command for effectiveness.

The new security outfit will enable sharing of intelligence among various vigilante groups from different communities and states within the region.

Hence, a criminal can not hide and live a normal life in one community while attacking people from another community within the southwest.

So in essence the government of the south western region of Nigeria are not starting a new security outfit that would require a lot of funding, they are simply tapping into existing non formal security arrangements within the region.

LegendHero:
Some of these Northern leaders are something else.

When the Fulani herdsmen are slaughtering people in their farms, IBB was nowhere to be found to condemn their atrocities.

Now the SW took a step further in trying to curb the menace and yet IBB want us to believe that they erred in creating Amotekun network.

What IBB proposed can still be done right now. One of his proposal is that the SW governors should have lobbied the FG for some funds to cater for Amotekun workforce before creating the network.

However, the FG can still fund it right now since the SW governors already took a step. The main problem here is that the North is starting to get more uneasy for what Amotekun stands for. What do they fear in Amotekun?

Lastly, everyone should know that IBB is not a friend of the Yorubas, so his opinion belongs to the trash.

sarrki:
He’s right

No funding

Tingotoe:
who is balyz?

orisa37:
Amotekun is a Private Concern of The Yorubas, like OPC and Agbekoyas.

The Launching is a simple Yoruba ways of protesting against Fulanisation of Yoruba Land.

As Yorubas cope with OPC and It's likes in Yorubaland without FUSS, so will be Amotekun. No Constitutional State in the FEDERATION is free of Bokoharam and FULANI HERDSMEN until THE STATES START DEMANDING AS OF RIGHTS AND AUDACITY TO HAVE INDIGENES OF THEIR STATES AS COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE. RIGHT NOW THE FG IS USING WATER YAM POUNDED YAM TO LICK OUR SOUP(STATE RESOURCES) WHICH SHOULD BE AUTONOMOUS TO THOSE STATES.

orisa37:





UNDIE ADIE SHOULD GET OUT OF ONDO STATE.

WHY SHOULD FULANI YOUTHS BE PROTESTING AGAINST NOTHING IN LAGOS AS THEY DID YESTERDAY?

Tembebe:
The way you people peddle lies ehn!!!
That was how you people said sina peters is an Igbo man and that obasanjo's father hailed from the East too.

qtx:


So how have you been able to disprove that? Or you base the argument on sentiments that's all?.

LegendHero:


They know it’s not only a threat from the Yorubas alone but a threat from all southerners and part of the middle belt.

If Amotekun becomes a success, then that means governors in other regions will try to replicate the security network in their respective domain and that spells doom for these guys atrocities.

When the North established Hisbah, did IBB condemned them? Should it be a problem only when something of such is created in the south?

martin123:
The same set of leaders that took the nation 40 years back are beginning to talk again. Please watch it