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Advises govs to keep the push for state police
The Miyetti Allah Kaute Hore has warned the governors of the south-west geopolitical region to give up the idea Amotekun, a regional security outfit created to address insecurity, or lose their bid to win the 2023 president.
You would recall that attorney-general of the federation, Abubakar Malami, had earlier declared the security outfit as “illegal”.
In an interview with newsmen, the national secretary of the group,
Alhassan Saleh, described the security outfit as political.
He advised the south-west to give up the idea of running the security outfit as it could affect the region’s chances of producing the next president.
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“This Amotekun scheme is political and is not the solution to the problem of insecurity, ” he said.
“What the south-west governors should have done is to continue to push for state police. Where did they expect to get the funding from at a time some of them are struggling to pay salaries?
“It is best they give up on this idea because it may affect the chances of the south-west to produce the president in 2023.
“The thinking is that if the south-west, a major stakeholder in this government, can be toying with this idea now, they may do worse when they get to power.”
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Saleh said his group agreed with the AGF that the outfit is illegal. He said he was unhappy that the AGF waited for the planning to reach an advanced stage before speaking out against it.
“We are in agreement with the AGF that Amotekun is illegal. In fact, we are unhappy that it took the AGF this long to react,” he said.
