Recently, the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, said at an event that he was waiting for the Federal Government to approve the creation of state police. This happened days after the abduction of teachers and pupils from two schools in the state. His comment came at a time I had been wondering what happened to the Amotekun Corps, the state-owned security outfit. At the time Amotekun was created years back, I stated a few things on this page. One of them was that I hoped Amotekun wouldn’t go the way of most government agencies after they were created. I also expressed the hope that Amotekun’s personnel, like those of other security agencies, wouldn’t start seeking to be posted to only towns because they didn’t want to go to rural settings.
I made this observation at the time because some of the problems, such as kidnapping, which made South-West governors
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