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The intentions of the Southwest governors are good. However, some people have expressed fears about the regional security force.

Olalan:
It's high time we start having critical discussion in this country cause the outcry from the north on this initiative seems mishecvious........How do you condemn an initiative engineered towards protection of human lives and properties

ChiSomtoChi:
Circumcision was forced on us? You are dumb. Olaudah Equiano born in 1745 that the Igbos practiced Circumcision in his book THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVUS VASSA THE AFRICAN WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

See your reasoning. Biko I'm a Jew.

Note- All Biblical ISRAELITES were Black negroes. Those ones you've seen or still seeing in Israel today are Imposters.


Simple!

The hisbah operate openly and are easily recognizable: they are provided with uniforms, vehicles, and an office, usually by the local or state government. In some states, the government pays them a small salary. The hisbah have structures at local government and state level. Some are directly supported by their local government (materially and financially), while others, such as the hisbah in Kaduna, claim that membership and participation are voluntary and unpaid. The hisbah operate with the full consent and support of the state government, although the exact nature of their relationship with the state government varies and mechanisms for accountability are not always clearly defined.

State government officials and other individuals interviewed by Human Rights Watch claimed that the activities of the hisbah were governed by regulations and a code of conduct, developed at the state level; however, despite many inquiries in several states, Human Rights Watch was not able to find any legislation governing their activities by mid-2003. Human Rights Watch was told that state governments had only issued “legal notices” to set up the hisbah—a form of subordinate legislation issued by the state governor, which, unlike laws, are not submitted for debate to the state houses of assembly.207 Eventually, the Kano State House of Assembly passed a law in late 2003 regulating the hisbah; it includes the creation of a board composed of representatives of the main security agencies (including the police and the intelligence services) to oversee the hisbah and ensure that they are carrying out their duties properly.208

Shari’a implementation committees were set up just before the Shari’a legislation was introduced. They were given responsibility for overseeing the activities of the hisbah. Their members were selected by state governors and include religious leaders, lawyers, and civil servants. In addition to supervising the hisbah, they also advise state governors on the implementation of Shari’a.

In late July 2003, the Zamfara State governor announced the creation of a new hisbah commission and several other commissions to regulate and monitor the application of Shari’a in the state. At a public gathering in Gusau on July 28, he outlined the functions of the hisbah commission. These included, among others, monitoring the implementation and application of laws relating to Shari’a; ensuring proper compliance with the teachings of Shari’a by workers in the private and public sector; monitoring the daily proceedings of Shari’a courts to ensure compliance with the Shari’a penal code and code of criminal procedure; reporting on all actions likely to tamper with the proper dispensation of justice; keeping a record of all people in prison with pending hudud cases; taking every measure to sanitize society of all social vices and whatever vice or crime is prohibited by Shari’a; taking every measure to ensure conformity with the teachings of Shari’a by the general public in matters of worship, dress code, and social and business interaction and relationships; and enlightening the general public on the Shari’a system and its application.209

Despite the absence of legislation governing their activities in most other states, hisbah members and members of the general public in the areas where they operate interviewed by Human Rights Watch appeared to share a common understanding of certain rules governing their behavior, even if these are not always observed in practice. For example, it was understood that the hisbah effectively have powers of arrest if they catch a person in the act of committing a crime, and are supposed to hand the suspect over to the police. They are not supposed to take the suspect straight to court or administer the punishment themselves. While they are expected to arrest criminals, they are not supposed to enter people’s private homes or spy on them merely on the basis of suspicion. In practice, however, the hisbah have often disregarded these and other guidelines and violated people’s right to privacy. For example, residents reported that the hisbah would sometimes go from house to house, checking that people were not committing offenses, and in some cases searching for particular individuals on the basis of denunciations from other residents. Similarly, as in the cases of both Amina Lawal and Safiya Husseini, the hisbah were instrumental in apprehending the women after people had denounced them to the hisbah for committing adultery—even though they do not have the right to question women on how they became pregnant.

Bringback9ja:
Recently, South-West governors launched Amotekun a security outfit to fight and curb crimes like kidnapping, robbery and killings of innocent people in the region.

Miyetti Allah came out to against this saying the security is against their members. Are Fulani's criminal? Other tribes in Yoruba are not complaining but Fulani's.

Are you guys Criminals?

tonididdy:
Every arm of the Nigerian Government have a way of shunning their 'supposed duty' and diverting into something or anything else personally lucrative.

Power is bad in the black man's hand. This amotekun will be hijacked into a yahoo-boys chasing apparatus.

... For me I am against it.
PS: I am neither a Muslim nor a northernern, already we have more than enough to chew with the NPf

BuhariLooter:
Why did the Oyoruba governors not seek legislature backing from their respective state assemblies when setting up the vigilante movement?

Malami will argue that Sharia and Hisbah came about through legislation by the state assemblies.

Are the current crop of Oyoruba governors so daft not to know that laws created at state level can not be overruled by the FG?

Why did Malami not declare Fayose's anti grazing bill and the security outfit he setup to enforce the law illegal?

Yaribanza, your APC governors are mocking you and were only using this Amotekun as political leverage. They are not interested nor concerned about your safety.

Where are the cows

DaBullIT:
Too stupid to understand that i am Yoruba and that i am in support of the Amotekun project while pointing out that the author of the piece didn't need to accuse FG of sponsoring Fulani herdsmen to kill every other person ??

Shame

DaBullIT:
In your really sensible sense , you strongly believe Buhari is paying herdsmen to wreak havoc on other cities and tribes in this country ?? when herder / farmer crisis happened in 2000-2003 under Obasanjo , did OBJ pay them ??

When the issue sprang up under jonathan too , i guess Jonathan was paying them to murder every hausa and Yoruba ??

You will argue , but why won't you people use common sense , Herders and farmers class didn't start yesterday if you can't process that , don't bother to reply

selemempe:
why do yorubas defend fulanis like stupid, shallow fans?

On ground, police officers posted in Benue state at the heat of Benue killings in 2016 said you dare not arrest a Fulani man in Benue for whatever offence. A direct order by the then CP of Benue.
Fulanis sacked and settled in villages for weeks without military or police moving in.

Tell me what regional effort to curb Fulani herdsmen excesses that has not been challenged or crippled by this FG? Even legal instrument like anti-grazing bills where declared illegal.
Do you see why Igbos dislike yorubas? Once Igbo takes a stance, yorubas unnecessarily take the opposing stance just to spite Igbos even if it's against their best interest. Is this type of abubaku not beneath you people? Who licks ass in the 21st century? Why why why do yorubas defend fulanis even when Fulani is fighting against them.

In the height of June 12 a yoruba man became president and spent his three months in office defending the injustice done to Abiola.
A yoruba man became VP to Abacha and spent 4 years canvassing support for him while Abiola languished.

Shame on all Abubakus. Double shame on you

DaBullIT:
Damn, as good as this writeup could have been , i sighted just one turn off

It is not really the Amotekun the Danfodios are scared of. It is the fact that a Southern region was able to find the needed UNITY and COURAGE to look beyond partisanship and other mawkish considerations by setting up a regional security outfit to protect their people from a govt sponsored terrorist group masquerading as cow herders

I immediately knew it was written by LiePod agents

Cow herding has been a business since time of Jesus Christ and these disputes and killings have been happening in Nigeria since 1999 or before i have posted this thing here before , so to say govt sponsors herdsmen to terrorize other region / tribe is just stupid

CAPITAL NO NO

ChiSomtoChi:
Please we have our history. Don't force us with your marriage!

Whenever Igbos of SE say ANIOMAS are Igbo, y'all will say let the Aniomas speak for themselves. Now, we the Igbos are speaking for ourselves. We are Jews!

ChiSomtoChi:
Useless trash. How can Igbos who practiced circumcision be related to uncircumcised hamitic Yorubas, Igalas and benins? Nonsense.

We are JEWS simple! Read this book THE EMPIRE OF THE EBOES(IBOES, EGBOES AND IGBOES) by Dr. Africanus Beale Horton James in 1868. He wrote about the Israelitish origin of the Igbos.


Get the Bleep with your African useless unbiblical religion

Realtord43:
Take a second and imagine Nigeria without fulani, just imagine it 4 a second. No miyetti Allah, No Buhari. wont that be peaceful?

LANDLORD72:
*Federal Emergency Management agency FEMA advice Nigerians*

CRIME AND KIDNAPPING IS ON THE RISE- BE CAUTIOUS!

1. Never use car stickers that says where you work, especially if you have a prestigious job.

2. Never share pictures of your kids in their school uniforms or badges. Protect your kids!

3. When you attend parties, don't let the band get you so high that you start spraying money like no man's business, use an envelope.

4. Don't be the one that tries to empty the ATM machine by making large withdrawals ...You don't need 50k in your wallet to feel like a man.

5. Always delete your bank transaction notifications, especially SMS...you really can memorize your bank balance....Shred ur POS/ATM receipts.

6. Don't go jogging while it's dark, you really should be smarter than that. If you can, get someone trusted as company.

7. Always lock your doors, even if you're only going out to switch off your generator.

8. NEVER EVER, NEVER EVER WEAR YOUR ID outside your work place. No one needs to know where you work

9. Be accountable to your spouse or parents, let someone know where you are at every point.

10. As much as you can, don't send kids alone on errand outside your house, they are soft targets.

11. Don't try to show you are the richest in the neighborhood by making large donations in your estate meetings, learn modesty.

12. When you give, give with modesty and privately, learn to say "I can't spare that amount now".

13. Don't stay late in your office long after closing hours. That deadline work can be done at home.

14. Make safety the number one factor in your decision always!

15. Mind what you post about yourself on social media.

*Wishing you a successful week ahead*
*Good Morning*

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), northern Nigeria’s foremost socio-cultural group, on Thursday said establishing regional tribal security forces such as South West security outfit ‘ Operation Amotekun’ may affect Nigeria’s unity and cohesion.

FrLukas:
Because Seun has given the everyone the luxury to open a thread here doesn't mean that everyone should actually open a thread.