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General News of Tuesday, 14 January 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Babangida speaks on Amotekun security outfit in Southwest

Ibrahim Babangida Ibrahim Babangida

Former military head of states, General Ibrahim Babangida has laid his mind bare on the establishment of Amotekun Operation.

Amotekun sucirty outfit was established by the 6 governors of Southwest to help with the security challenges in the region.

However, Babangida is of the opinion that the security outfit might not be sustainable by the region because it involves lots of funds.

Speaking to Channels TV, Babangida said: “They must equip them, you must pay them salaries. You must give them all the welfare they need. That is going to be a problem for the states. Where will they get the money to foot those bills?

“If they have succeeded in convincing the federal government to put out some part of the revenue for the purposes of that, I can understand that, but if they take it on themselves, it is going to be a problem.

“What we need to do is to have a closer look. We have a lot of security outfits; we have the army, the mobile police, the National Defence security, we have a whole load of them.

“I think they should be assigned specific responsibilities to lessen the financial burden this initiative would cost the government of the states in the long run.”