After meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, the military seems to have disagreed with the creation of the South west security outfit – Amotekun.
The service chiefs, after the meeting with the President in Abuja, advised all Nigerians and other “stakeholders, local and state governments, to join hands with the Armed Forces of Nigeria to ensure that our country is secured rather than looking at other methods that are likely going to negate the national community policing policy that the federal government has approved.”
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, had after the meeting briefed State House correspondents but Abubakar’s admonition is seen as a veiled reference to the setting up of the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) codenamed Operation Amotekun.
The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had declared Operation Amotekun as illegal because “it runs contrary to the provisions of the Nigerian law.”
Many Nigerians have seen Malami’s statement as illogical and inconsequential.