Amotekun Corps to get insurance, pension benefits in Ogun

Members of Amotekun Corps may not just be getting security jobs, they would also be enjoying welfare packages as the Amotekun Bill, scaled second reading yesterday in the Ogun State House of Assembly.

The lawmakers in tandem with the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, are proposing a compulsory insurance scheme and standard rules of engagement for the security outfit.

The Assembly, which debated on the bill titled ‘HB.NO 035/OG/2020- A Bill For a Law to Establish the Ogun State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps’, said the bill would assist in maintaining law and order in the state.

Oluomo, while lauding his fellow lawmakers for their meaningful contributions to the debate on the bill, pointed out the need for a pension scheme for members of the corps.

In their various submissions, the lawmakers explained that the law was targeted at devising a community policing scheme to complement and collaborate with existing security agencies to reduce crimes and criminalities to the barest minimum in the state, the South-West region and the nation at large.