A non-political group, Yoruba Development and Unity Initiatives (YDUI) has said that the recently launched security outfit in the Southwest region, ‘Operation Amotekun’ is a brilliant initiative aimed at protecting the southwest states from insurgencies.
While reacting to a statement by a northern group which described the outfit as a military wing of Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), the Yoruba Mandate Group convener, Akogun Banji Ojo in a chat with newsmen maintained that Amotekun does not in any way pose a threat to national security, neither does it tend to jeopardize the Nigerian sovereignty.
According to him: “The rising rate of insurgencies in the Southwestern states and some rampage acts of suspected Fulani herdsmen led to the urgent establishment of Amotekun.”
He added that the personnel of the ‘Operation Amotekun’ will work with relevant security agencies to combat threat to lives and properties of the Yoruba people.
He, however, urged all relevant stakeholders and groups to support the security outfit regardless of their tribes or where they belong, because it is on a mission to protect the Nation as a whole.
“Operation Amotekun is mainly to protect and defend the Yoruba mission and the country as large and that is why we must give our support wholeheartedly,” Akogun Ojo concluded.