OPINION: AMOTEKUN CORPS: A MODEL FOR JOB CREATION AND EFFECTIVE SOLUTION TO INSECURITY IN OYO STATE

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. The issue of security is always at the heart of the Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things. Oyo State Government has raised the bar of security network in Oyo State. With the state of the heart security architectures; acquisition of 100 security car with operational number for crime alert; recommissioning of the expanded security control room and city watch facilities at the Oyo State Security Trust fund headquarters;
Ago-Are 72 squadron mobile police base; security committee in each local government and the new phase which is Amotekun.

Security is one of the pillars of this administration, Oyo state is a very large area, Governor Seyi Makinde is doing everything possible to secure our state.

The state’s Security Network Agency, code-named Amotekun Corps has provided job for 1500 family in Oyo State. The 1,500 pioneer Amotekun Corps who passed out at Emmanuel Alayande College of Education Sports Complex, Main Campus, Oyo will be engaged and carry out their activities in 351 wards in Oyo State.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence. With this new employment trend in Oyo State, the Amotekun corps will work to the nooks and crannies of Oyo State and this will reduce the crime rate.

Governor Seyi Makinde also reiterated his administration’s commitment to making Oyo State safe and secure for all within the town, cities and its borders.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspirations and expectation. With the effective roadmap being displayed, Oyo State is widely accelerating into good developed state.

Bashorun writes from Àgbókojó, Ibadan.