Chairman of Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay, has declared the establishment of Operation Amotekun by Southwest governors as legal and in line with their constitutional role as chief security officers of their states.

His position opposed that of the Justice Minister and Attorney-general of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, who declared the security outfit illegal.

Governors from Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, and Lagos States last week Thursday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital launched a security outfit called Amotekun.

Sagay in an interview with The Nation said the Police lacked adequate manpower to effectively secure a country of nearly 200 million people, hence the establishment of Amotekun was in order.

“I am positively disposed towards it. I think it is a good beginning not to depend completely on the Federal Government for our security.

“We should begin to rely more and more on ourselves so that those who feel the pain are those who try to take control of the security situation.



“We know that the Police are few; they are stretched; we have about 250,000 policemen in a country of almost 200 million. So, I think these regional security institutions are necessary.

“I believe the police should cooperate with them and help with their training. And I believe eventually, they should even be armed so that we can have a lot more hands and local people involved in security.

“Perhaps that can lead to other benefits, such as economic cooperation and wealth creation; and gradually, we’ll begin to regain what we lost when we lost the regions in the 60s. So, yes, I support it.

“It’s not state police. I think the people who created it have been careful. Yes, there is a security outfit, but there is nothing in the Constitution that precludes either states or association of states from taking care of their security.

“There is this popular saying that the governor is the chief security officer of a state. That’s not an empty statement.

“They get a lot of money for security, and I look at this as part of the responsibility of the governors acting jointly to provide greater security in the Southwest.”

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Hisbah is Legal while Amotekun is illegal.

The effect of a Buhari presidency.

Nigeria's disintegration is imminent.

It will surely happen.

The northerners don't always know when to press pause. They always want to have their way at all cost even if it means committing an abomination.

No country can survive such.

AGF should be careful with his half baked law knowledge about certain things before he plunged the Nation into civil war.

Am a North Eastern, I see no essence in allowing Hisbah operate. Are Christians permitted to operate their own Security outfit that can enforce Christian values?

b3llo:
AGF should be careful with his half baked law knowledge about certain things before he plunged the Nation into civil war.

Am a North Eastern, I see no essence in allowing Hisbah operate. Are Christians permitted to operate their own Security outfit that can enforce Christian values?

Sorry, bro, we will open borders for people like you, but to be in the same union with the majority of your people is shocking.

Hmmm

Seems Malami is on his own on this.
But he should have been consulted on it at least to fulfill all righteousness.