The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum has commended the newly-inaugurated southwest security network codenamed ‘Operation Amotekun’, saying that it will go a long way in promoting community policing in the zone. A Chieftain of the forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday, expressed support for the establishment of the agency. Shettima also distanced the forum from a Northern group which had earlier condemned the initiative by the southwest governors. If I now come out to condemn the inauguration of ‘Amotekun’ in the southwest, that will be counter-productive. He urged the Northern Governors’ Forum to come up with a similar programme constitutionally-recognised to protect the North.

Source: Punch January 12, 2020 07:07 UTC