Group Raises Alarm, Alleges Attempt To Use Amotekun For Destabilisation Plot

MICHAEL AKINOLA

 A socio-cultural group, the Yoruba Appraisal Forum, has raised alarm over a plot by some unnamed persons to use the South West Security Network initiative to destabilise the country.

The position of the group is contained in a two page communiqué it issued in Lagos on Thursday signed by its Convener, Comrade Adeshina Animashaun.

In the document obtained by our P.M.EXPRESS correspondent, Animashaun, who stated that the euphoria that greeted the establishment of the initiative has prevented stakeholders in the region to overlook the potentials of it being used as a tool to destabilize the country by those he accused as having hijacked it.

While expressing its support for the Amotekun initiative as a healthy development for securing the region, the group added that “unknown to most Nigerians, including those in authority, some unscrupulous individuals have hijacked it for some sinister purposes.”

According to it, “Our latest findings about Amotekun are shocking and now a source of serious concern about this South West security outfit,” adding that the group has uncovered plans to use Amotekun to destabilise the South West and ultimately the entire country.

Animashaun counseled that the fears being expressed by eminent personalities who are non-indigenes of the South Western part of the country should not in anyway be discountenance by the promoters of the initiative, saying should its operation spiral out of control.                                                                          

“That it’s an incontrovertible fact that in the event of any chaos in the South West, people from other parts of the country residing in the region- Igbo, Hausa and others- will bear the brunt as no one can guarantee the safety of their persons, business and investments in Yorubaland.” The group wrote.

The group called on South West governors to show some form of circumspection in the way their pushing on the implementation of the initiative, they are ignorant of the real motive the promoters.

“That we make bold to say that the reality is that Amotekun is an instrument to perpetrate crime and make political gains for a few individuals masquerading as having the love of the people of the region at heart.” The communiqué reads in part.