Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has faulted the approval given to Katsina State security force to bear sophisticated weapons by the Federal Government, while other parts of the country are denied such approvals.
Akeredolu noted that Katsina was able to arm its state security force, with the display of AK47 means the country is merely nominal as one entity but operating two systems.
The governor, in a statement he personally signed on Thursday, said the video making the rounds showing the equivalent of the Western Nigeria Security Network (Amotekun Corps) in Katsina, obtaining the approval of the Federal Government to bear arms is fraught with great dangers.
According to him, denying Amotekun the urgently needed rights to legitimately bear arms is a repudiation of the basis of true federalism which we have been clamouring for.
He noted that “If the Katsina situation confers advantages on some, in the face of commonly faced existential threats, it means that our unitary policing system, which has failed, is a deliberate method of subjugation which must be challenged.”
He added that: “The Independence agreement was based on a democratic arrangement to have a federal state and devolved internal security mechanics.
“We must go back to that agreement. Denying Amotekun the right to bear arms exposes the Southwest to life-threatening marauders and organized crime.
“It is also a deliberate destruction of our agricultural sector. It is an existential threat.
“We want to reiterate that what is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander. Ondo State government under the doctrine of necessity has decided to fulfil its legal, constitutional and moral duty to the citizens of the state, by acquiring arms to protect them.
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