Ekiti State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Wale FapohundaLagos, Ogun and Ekiti states are leading the drafting of model bills on the South-West security outfit, Operation Amotekun.
The Ekiti State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Wale Fapohunda, who gave this indication in an interview with one of our correspondents on Sunday, also said operatives of Amotekun, would have the power to arrest suspected criminals.
At the meeting, both sides agreed that each of the South-West states should make a law to back Operation Amotekun. “Power of arrest is not new. All our non-conventional forces have the power of arrest. What is important is that when they arrest, what happens to those that they arrest? The way Amotekun will work is that if they see a crime that is being committed, they will have to inform the national security forces like the police, where that is not possible, they can arrest and hand over such a person to the security agencies.
Fapohunda said there would still be consultation among the South-West attorneys general with a view to producing virtually similar laws in the states. “Once we have that minimum standard, the law will be unique, but will be responsive to the peculiarities of each state. The agenda is that the law must respond to the concerns of crime, safety and security and at the same time meeting respect for citizens’ rights.
Oyeleye, in an interview with The PUNCH, said commission would not want to preempt the outcome of the documents being put together by the attorneys general. Rather, the cleric said the way forward for the nation was “to travel downwards to revisit the constitutional foundations.” He, however, said the nation must capitalise on the Operation Amotekun debate to address its nagging foundation issue.
Oyebade, who was in charge of Oyo, Osun and Ondo states, was transferred to the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Plateau State. He was replaced with AIG Bashir Makama, who it was gathered, had resumed in Osogbo. A source who spoke to one of our correspondents in confidence said, “AIG Oyebade has been removed by the IG for allowing the protests in support of Amotekun to hold in Ibadan, Osogbo and Akure despite knowing that the government was against Operation Amotekun.
It said it needed some time to put its act together as far as the formation of screening committees was concerned.
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