Kwara APC Chairman Backs Amotekun

 

Kwara State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Bashir Bolarinwa, and President-General of Afonja Descendants Union, Ilorin, Alhaji Olola Kasum, on Tuesday hailed the launch of Amotekun security operation by the South-west state governors.

They, however, urged the state government and  other states in other regions of the country  to replicate same  in order to nip the security challenges of the country in the bud.

The duo spoke at different interviews in Ilorin, the state capital.

The state chairman of APC, Bolarinwa, who spoke with journalists in Ilorin, the state capital, on the sideline of his wife’s birthday where crème la crème of the APC members were in attendance, counseled other regions in the country to borrow a leaf from the Southwest in order to rise up to the occasion against insecurity in the country.

According to him, “Amotekun is a very good effort which the federal government has now accepted. We know that the security system in the country has challenges and every effort made even as an individual to improve the security situation in the country should be allowed.

"It is good that the federal government has soft-pedaled and seen good reasons. It should sit down with the South-west governors to come out with modalities to make the whole arrangement work out. I will also implore every other region to emulate the Southwest.”

Asked how he felt on the occasion, the former House of Representatives members said: “Naturally, I feel happy that my heartthrob is marking her birthday. I also feel happy and honoured with the crème la crème of the APC that graced the occasion. It shows acceptability, it shows interest and it shows that my leadership of APC in the state is respected.

“Don’t forget that women are referred to as the home fronts. It is because she is the image of any house, and the Prophet advised us to go for a good wife.

“I will, therefore, advise the young ladies here to emulate my wife and even the married ones too should adjust where necessary and see that they make their husbands, family members happy by allowing themselves to be accessible to members of the husbands’ families and the company the husbands keep.”

Also, in his comment, the President of Afonja Descendants Union, Kasum said: "I was invited to the inauguration of Amotekun by the Oyo State Government in Ibadan. We also want it in Kwara State. It’s very clear that the current security operation by the federal government is failing. All of us can see and feel it.

"We have our own security challenges in Kwara State; we have had kidnapping cases here and we just heard that some Fulani herdsmen allegedly killed a Nollywood actor on the Ilorin/Ogbomosho expressway. We must not wait until the situation get out of hands in Kwara State before we set up ‘Amotekun’ here. The state government should do the needful to nip it in the bud."