Governor Seyi Makinde has said that the greater part of the negative reports about the Oyo state section of the Western Nigeria Security Network, Amotekun, are bogus.
Makinde who said this at the public authority house in Agodi on Wednesday, January 14, asserted that the individuals who need Amotekun to fizzle are behind the untruths. He additionally told those with proof of bad behavior allotted against them by Amotekun to shout out.
He said;
“Amotekun isn’t working in a vacuum. They are making of the law of the state. The Nigerian Police is a making of the Constitution of the government republic of Nigeria. Ordinarily, we have entombed and intra office grating where conceivable, yet we will get everyone together and look for arrangement towards a similar end fundamentally.
“For as long as about a month and a half that the Amotekun was conveyed, we have seen different reports in the news. The vast majority of these reports are acceptable and a couple is terrible. What’s more, of the awful, a lot are bogus data and phony news.
“For instance, a few papers conveyed the news that Amotekun slaughtered seven Fulani herders in Ibarapa. Such a story was flowed to stir up the ethnic strain. While, the genuine story was that Amotekun worked with the local area individuals, including real herders, to flush out terrible components in that zone.
“I need to disclose to you that there are individuals among us that don’t need Amotekun to succeed and they will utilize untruths and disinformation to push their plan. We should acknowledge where we are coming from and where we truly need to be.
“Local area policing is the path forward and we need to make it work. On the off chance that someone says he is manhandled by Amotekun and can’t pinpoint the Amotekun workforce in such a zone, you are presumably not from that area and you are a phony news transporter.
“Along these lines, as I generally state, I realize we do have a trust shortage between the individuals and the specialists, and this makes it simpler to think the most noticeably awful of individuals in power. However, we ought not to slice our nose to show disdain toward our face. We should discover an equilibrium so we don’t turn the individuals attempting to ensure us to our foes.”