The southwest has perfected its security plan to secure the lives and property of it’s people with Lagos, Osun, Ogun, Ondo and Oyo States Houses of Assembly passing the South-west Security Network (Amotekun) Bill into law.
Ekiti State House of Assembly was first to pass the security initiative bill into law while the Lagos State House of Assembly at plenary yesterday passed the bill to create Amotekun Corps as a special unit of the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps.
The lawmakers passed the bill after taking the third reading of the amendment to the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps Agency Law 2019.
The amendment bill had successfully gone through all the different stages of law making, which include first and second reading, public hearing, laying and presentation of committees report, adoption of report by House, third reading and finally passage.
Oyo members of the state House of Assembly, turned out dressed in leopard skin regalia, yesterday to pass the Oyo State Security Network Agency Bill, 2020, codenamed Operation Amotekun.
The session which started with a clause-by-clause consideration of the bill, eventually led to third reading and final adoption and passage.
Some of the lawmakers wore amulets and arm bands to demonstrate combat readiness.
The lawmakers made it dramatic by adding color to the session when all of them growled like leopards the moment the Speaker, Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin, hit the gavel passing the bill into law.
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