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."
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