The Yoruba Leadership and Peace Initiative (TYLPI), has asked the six South-West governors to adopt the principle and ideal of the quasi-regional security outfit, code-named Amotekun Corps, to address the scarcity and challenges of basic responsibilities that were handled by the Federal Government.
The Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural think-tank and advocacy organisation, comprising prominent intellectuals, scholars, technocrats and entrepreneurs, gave the charge in a congratulatory letter to the Chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum and his Ekiti, Osun, Oyo, Ogun and Lagos colleagues on the successful launch of the security outfit in response to a surge in insecurity and violent crime wave in the region last year.
The group highlighted that prior to the establishment of Amotekun, the surge of violent criminal acts and alarming rate of insecurity devastating the region alongside various parts of the country, including herdsmen clashes, kidnapping and banditry, had persisted without the police and security agencies being able to address the situation or bring the perpetrators to justice due to over-centralisation of authority in the nation’s internal security and federal policing system.