Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections has thrown his weight behind Operation Amotekun, saying states have the right to employ different measures to secure the lives of the people.

In a statement on Sunday, Atiku, a former Vice President said “As enshrined in the Nigerian constitution, the primary responsibility of government, at any level, is the protection of lives and property of the citizen.

In carrying out this function, the state employs different layers of measures to ensure effective and efficient policing.
It is without a doubt that in the past decade particularly, the current policing administration in our dear country had been stretched to its limits and it is obvious that the reality of our domestic security upheaval will demand of us to recalibrate our police systems.

In the First Republic, before we gravitated too much to the center, policing was done federally with each native authority and region having some mechanisms to deal with little upsets that were the security concerns of those times.

In the present day Nigeria, there is hardly any state of the federation that does not contend with some type of security challenges.
Because our security challenges are diverse in forms and impacts, it is thus incumbent that centrally controlled police architecture cannot exclusively deal with those challenges.
Consequently, there is need for the creation of additional policing structures in the country to address the rapidly growing challenges of insecurity and crime.
The time is ripe to seriously confront the reality of insecurity in the country by addressing the urgency of introducing state police, zonal police and community policing to complement the efforts of the current federal police.
It is obvious that current levels of insecurity in the country are giving rise to major initiatives such as Amotekun and the issue need not be controversial in the first place.
The police are likely to be more effective if they constantly operate in the same local community or local government because such closeness might create a bond with the local people, thereby enabling community cooperation and participation that would engender proactive outcomes in crime prevention.
Nigeria is a vast country facing enormous security challenges and, therefore, there is the urgent need to create more security structures at the local levels to reduce the burden on the federal police.
The issue of security shouldn’t be politicised and monopolised in the face of our current alarming security challenges characterised by the fear of even travelling on our highways by the citizens who might be intercepted by kidnappers and taken hostage for ransom.
Local policing shouldn’t be mistaken for an effort to hijack the role of the federal police or a competition with the federal government.
The obvious inadequacies of the federal police to effectively deal with these rapidly growing security challenges make local policing not only desirable, but also necessary.

The police are more likely to be effective in areas where they are well known and trusted by the local communities who in turn are willing to share information about known criminals and criminal activities, thereby foiling those crimes before they are even carried out.
It is a given perception that when people have a role in their own security, they are going to help to defeat the criminal in their tracks and that the more they are involved, the more likely they would perceive the police as their friends.
In the envisage new order, states and local governments shouldn’t be reduced to peripheral players in policing and security matters. When local police structures are closest to the grassroots, emergency response will be more effective than the current unwieldy chain of command that renders local government chairmen ineffective when their people are under attacks.
As a matter of fact, it is refusing to adopt new ways of doing things that poses a threat to the unity of the country.
Therefore, Atiku Abubakar supports Community, State and Zonal Police to complement Federal Police to deal with insecurity in the country. It has never been this bad to the extent of threatening the unity of the country.
https://www.independent.ng/atiku-backs-amotekun-says-controversy-unnecessary/

Northerner by tribe but sourtherner by thinking and reason

Mark of a true leader


Not the terrorist King in Aso rock

Timatayo1:
Northerner by tribe but sourtherner by thinking and reason

Southerners do not marry multiple wives from all tribes. Southerners do not sleep with both men and women, that's bisexualism. Southerners do not carry just university Diploma as highest educational qualification.

Good one if he isnt cashing out on sentiments as usual for political gains

Speak this truth to the north is all we want

Mikecold:
Good one if he isnt cashing out on sentiments as usual for political gains

Speak this truth to the north is all we want

He will never speak the truth to the North. He will tell the North what the North wants to hear and tell the South what the South wants to hear. Useless Cameroonian bisexual who cannot keep his dirty diick in one pussssy.

He was VP when Tinubu and Afenifere were fighting for restructuring and devolution of powers to the states. The idiot homosexual and his incest boss Obasanjo who has been sleeping with his daughters and sons' wives opposed restructuring, now the bastard is deceiving some people with a promise to restructure

lies

efighter:


He will never speak the truth to the North. He will tell the North what the North wants to hear and tell the South what the South wants to hear. Useless Cameroonian bisexual who cannot keep his dirty diick in one pussssy.

He was VP when Tinubu and Afenifere were fighting for restructuring and devolution of powers to the states. The idiot homosexual and his incest boss Obasanjo who has been sleeping with his daughters and sons' wives opposed restructuring, now the bastard is deceiving some people with a promise to restructure

Because Atiku is educated.

Some people will not like this.


Cc lzaa gmbuharii afamed helinues omenka gwarotango Yarimo

See dem. They want to use our head so dat a northerner will continue by 2023. Na lie. Thank u fr ur opinion bt d north can't hold power again come 2023

Now that Atiku has found his voice, Tinubu is next.

As for those SANs of Yoruba extraction in this administration who have maintained undignified silence now that it matters most, let them know that their people are taking stock.

efighter:


Southerners do not marry multiple wives from all tribes. Southerners do not sleep with both men and women, that's bisexualism. Southerners do not carry just university Diploma as highest educational qualification.

well said

State measures not regional

That's good. I don't know why the paranoia across the far north. No right thinking person would fault an effort whose objective is to protect lives.

Osagyefo98:
State measures not regional

So state measures can work in harmony with other state within the same region ?

this is not going well with buhari.

Iamgrey5:
So state measures can work in harmony with other state within the same region ?

If you need regional then let's go for constitutional amendment.

Osagyefo98:


If you need regional then let's go for constitutional amendment.

What is regional in what I wrote

JTF operates in more than one north Eastern state

Hisbah operates more than one North western state.

And they operate similar guidelines


Why not anywhere else?

Iamgrey5:
What is regional in what I wrote

JTF operates in more than one north Eastern state

Hisbah operates more than one North western state.

And they operate similar guidelines


Why not anywhere else?

They operate within their state legislation.

No other has any connection or relationship to another both operate on their own.

SW should disband Amotekun and each state adopt their own measures like Hisbah.

Atiku is becoming a gem if it truly comes from the bottom of his heart.Good one,sir.

Atiku's trajectory shows a man desperate for power and can do or say anything to get it. I wouldn't take his words serious

As a Northerner, I equate OPC to IPOB. The inclusion of OPC and any other militant agency means it is a militant agency like ipob. That will never be accepted.

Oh my goodness, I supported Buhari during last election fromy now on I will even support you ahead of that our foolish man called Tinubu.... may God bless you

SW governors inaugurated an illegal outfit to tackle Fulani herdsmen without any legal backing and it's functions will be the same thing as the police.


Let's not support an illegality because we want to tackle an illegality.

SW should coexist peacefully with Fulani herdsmenAmotekun is not only illegal but primarily set up to target the Fulanis in Nigeria.

BuhariLooter:
SW governors inaugurated an illegal outfit to tackle Fulani herdsmen without any legal backing and it's functions will be the same thing as the police.


Let's not support an illegality because we want to tackle an illegality.

Go suck cockk bitchh! Amotekun is here to stay

Amotekun is a terrorist group.



There is no different between Amotekun and boko haram.

While the North is battling with Boko-haram, the SS is battling with Niger-Delta militant. SE and SW are battling with bandits. Nobody should blame others for their woes. Why hasn't the North created a tribal security outfit to kill off Southerners because Boko-haram is causing problem in the North? The problem is that you guys are always quick to blame others for your own problems. When the people of SE were creating IPOB, they never knew that it will turn to bite them but now their elders cannot travel freely without been beaten. This is the same way the yoruba elders brought criminality to their door when they created OPC. Now members of OPC that cannot be paid have turned against your people and you want to blame the North.

efighter:


Southerners do not marry multiple wives from all tribes. Southerners do not sleep with both men and women, that's bisexualism. Southerners do not carry just university Diploma as highest educational qualification.

There's no word like Southerners in Nigeria today. There's Southeast, Southwest and Southsouth, let everyone carry his own cross biko.

Atiku Cashing out of Amotekun skin hide

Atiku is very liberal, no wonder northern Islamic terrorists doesn't like him for being decent

Yorubas cannot stop themselves from mingling with Hausa and Fulani. We are one NIGERIA and United. You cannot stop any individual from moving into and occupying any location in their own country.

Amotekun will be disbanded and proscribed. The Chief Justice has hinted so and BUHARI is his Oga.

Yorubas are just mourning early, it’s a sad pity