Fayemi meets Amotekun Corps’ Governing Board members

From  Victor  Akinkuolie
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In a bid to enhance adequate security and safeguard the lives and property of the citizenry, Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi at the weekend presided over the maiden edition of the meeting of Governing Board of the newly established Ekiti State Security Network (Amotekun Corps) .

Speaking during the meeting, the Governor reiterated the readiness of his administration to collaborate more with the police and other security agencies to ensure adequate training of Ekiti indigenes to guide and police the various communities in the state.

The Governor expressed his dissatisfaction on the way hoodlums are taking over the forests and communities, urging the security network to go all out at ensuring that every part of the state was safe for all residents.

He asserted that the state would continue to collaborate with other states in the southwest region to share intelligence and ideas to ensure that bandits are not allowed to infiltrate the state borders noting that crimes don’t recognize boundaries.

Fayemi, noted that the board consists of people who had wide experience in the security architecture representing critical stakeholders alongside the traditional security outfits like the police, State Security Service, NCDC and others.

The Governor explained that the meeting was not a formal inauguration, but a meeting called to rub minds together with the stakeholders pending the time the structure would be formalized with the endorsement and clearance of the state House of Assembly.

Earlier, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Barr. Wale Fapohunda said the board was set up in accordance with Section 4 of the Ekiti State Security Network Agency Law of 2020 that there shall be established for the agency a governing board which shall comprise of a chairman who shall be a person of proven integrity with cognate experience in security matters.

Members of the governing board led by its chairman, Mr Akin Aregbesola pledged their unflinching support to the efforts of Governor Fayemi at ensuring security of lives and property of the residents of the state and assured the government that they would all bring their experiences to bear at ensuring a crime free Ekiti State.