Amotekun bill scales second reading in Ekiti
The bill proposal for creation of the Ekiti State Security Network Agency otherwise called ‘Amotekun Corps’ on Thursday scaled second readings few hours it was presented to the House of Assembly.
It noted that the security outfit was in consonance with Section 33, 24, 40, 45 that imposes clear responsibility on citizens to ensure security of their lives and property. ” We are still on course and in line with procedures of legislative process. We have not breached any procedure and we won’t breach the procedure in passing the bill into law”, he said.
The Speaker admonished the committee to be painstaking in the passage, saying: “we all know that internal and external migrations had caused banditry, kidnappings, robbery and insurgency in some African Nations, Nigeria inclusive and solution to it by law is protection of lives and property. “The high level of displacement and migration from war-torn regions, robbery, kidnappings, herdsmen-farmers clashes, insurgency and terrorism had made things difficult for our conventional security architecture.
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