Govs Will Not Pay Community Policemen Says – Akeredolu

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu says the Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Operation Amotekun, will not be absorb under the community policing arrangement of the Nigeria Police Force.

He also insisted that governors would not pay community policemen.

Before now, states across the country had clamoured for independent police systems to tackle peculiar security challenges in their localities.

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Earlier in the year, six states in the South-West region came together to form a regional security operation code-named Operation Amotekun, which has since been backed by law in the respective states.

But with the recent approval of N13.3bn by the Federal Government for the take-off of the community policing initiative across the country, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Research and Planning, Adeleye Oyebade, said on Tuesday that all other security arrangements in the country would fall under the community policing set-up of the federal government.

“I am going to tell you straight away. By the time the community policing strategy and implementation come fully into operation, everybody will follow suit. Everybody will join us and follow what we are preaching and what we practice,” Oyebade said.