Allow Amotekun to bear sophisticated weapons – Ondo lawmaker begs FG

The lawmaker representing Odigbo Constituency 1 successful the Ondo State House of Assembly, Olatunji Ifabiyi, has urged the Federal Government to let Amotekun Corps officials to carnivore blase weapons to combat insecurity.

Ifabiyi, successful a telephone interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria connected Monday, said that Amotekun would not beryllium effectual if near with the usage of outdated arms and ammunition specified arsenic Dane guns and pump action.

The lawmaker noted that members of the Corps had implicit cognition of each the terrain wrong the authorities but needed to beryllium equipped with modern information gadgets to combat insecurity.

According to him, if the Federal Government permits Amotekun to run with blase weapons, insecurity, particularly crossed the South-West, volition beryllium reduced to the barest minimum.

Ifabiyi, who is the Chairman of the Assembly’s Committee connected Security Matters, said the legislative assemblage had not relented successful its efforts to warrant information of lives and spot successful the state.

“Our efforts successful supporting the combat against criminality successful the state, is not constricted to Amotekun, but cutting crossed each information agencies.

“We person met with heads of information agencies successful the authorities and we person shown our readiness to assistance them successful immoderate capableness wrong our law power. On Amotekun, determination was nary bil...