{"id":34683,"date":"2021-01-09T19:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=34683"},"modified":"2021-01-09T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T16:33:19","slug":"gov-makinde-vows-to-sanction-erring-personnel-of-amotekun-over-alleged-high-handedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-makinde-vows-to-sanction-erring-personnel-of-amotekun-over-alleged-high-handedness","title":{"rendered":"Gov Makinde vows to sanction erring personnel of Amotekun over alleged high-handedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde has vowed to deal with any member of the Western Nigeria Security Network; code-named \u2018Amotekun\u2019 found to be involved in alleged highhandedness.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Makinde made the comments in a statement issued on Friday in Ibadan by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Taiwo Adisa, who informed that an investigation into the allegation is already underway.<\/p>\n<p>Adisa said that setting up of a probe panel to look into the allegation follows the recent face-off between some personnel of the Amotekun corps and some youths in Tapa town, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further noted that the government was doing everything to address the matter squarely in the interest of the security and wellbeing of residents of Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ ALSO: Gov Makinde echos Akeredolu, says FG won\u2019t control Amotekun<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the recent events in Tapa, Ibarapa North local government area, it becomes imperative that I once again reassure the good people of Oyo state that our administration is doing everything in its power to address security issues in our state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the strategies we are using to check insecurity in the state is the recently introduced Western Nigeria Security Network (Amotekun).<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI am fully aware of the alleged highhandedness by some members of the corps. We are investigating these issues to address them promptly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe welfare and security of the good people of Oyo state remain our top priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not sit back and watch any harassment or intimidation of members of the public or our security officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, I urge the good people of Oyo state to please remain calm and allow members of the corps to perform their legally authorised duties for our peoples\u2019 well-being.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me assure you that if any corps member is abusing their office, they will be dealt with accordingly,\u201d Makinde stated.<\/p>\n<p>Opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde has vowed to deal with any member of the Western Nigeria Security Network; code-named \u2018Amotekun\u2019 found to be involved in alleged highhandedness. Governor Makinde made the comments in a statement issued on Friday in Ibadan by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Taiwo Adisa, who informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1312,1165,254],"class_list":["post-34683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-amotekun","tag-makinde","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov Makinde vows to sanction erring personnel of Amotekun over alleged high-handedness - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde has vowed to deal with any member of the Western Nigeria Security Network; 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