Unseal Osun Amotekun Office, Release Officials In Custody — Gov. Adeleke Tells IGP

Following the recent cases of kidnappings in Osun State, Governor Ademola Adeleke has urged the police to immediately lift the ban on Amotekun operations to combat the emerging threats.

The governor who warned against spillover of banditry and kidnapping from Kwara State into Osun pointed to another case of kidnapping at Ora Igbomina, a Kwara/Osun border community.

The governor in a statement by his spokesman, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, said the state was handicapped in its security response as the Amotekun service had remained sealed by the police with the top officers in detention without trial for several months.

The governor posited that the Amotekun service had developed the containment expertise, especially in the rural border areas, submitting that the police shutdown of the service’s operations had created a big gap being exploited by bandits and criminals.

Adeleke who called on the Inspector General of Police to charge those detained to court and unseal the service stated that further delay may endanger the rural population and open the state to further criminal infiltration.

“I am taking this matter to the public domain in view of another kidnapping at Ora Igbomina. Closing down Amotekun exposes Osun people to serious risks. I call on the Inspector General of Police to unseal Amotekun and allow its operatives to secure my people across the grassroots.

“Those officers in detention should be charged to court after several months of incarceration. Any further delay in the unsealing of Amotekun will further jeopardise the safety and security of our people”, the governor was quoted as saying after a security meeting.