The lawmaker representing Oyo South Senatorial District, Senator Kola Balogun has called on the Federal Government to grant the South West Security Network popularly known as Amotekun the license to bear arms.
Balogun made the call on Monday when he featured as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“Let me also say that I am aware that the Amotekun personnel have requested that the Inspector-General of Police grant them the license to be well-equipped. As we speak now, they are not as equipped as these invaders who are savages and who go on the rampage,” Senator Balogun explained.
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“I appeal to the IG and the police to grant them (Amotekun personnel) the license to be well-equipped as long as what they are doing is in support of what the police is doing.”
Over the weekend, gunmen attacked Igangan community in Oyo State, killing at least 15 people and destroying properties.
Reacting, the senator said:
“Amotekun is active and Amotekun is working even with the police. As a matter of fact, the situation would have been worse but for Amotekun and other local security outfits because from the report that I got, the people that came to invade had bigger plans than what happened,” he added while noting that Amotekun now has a joint patrol across the region.
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“It was the community, the Amotekun, the local vigilantes that were mobilised in the middle of the night even though they were ambushed because they were not expecting them but they actually mitigated the effect of the damage.”
