Oyo, Ogun, Lagos, Osun Assemblies Pass Amotekun Bill

The Oyo State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed the Oyo State Security Network Agency Bill, 2020 codenamed Operation Amotekun.
The lawmakers, in their dressing, had showed their readiness for the day’s business as majority of them wore customised outfits in the shade of leopard skin.
The session started with a clause by clause consideration of the bill before it eventual third reading and final adoption and passage.
While some of the lawmakers wore amulets, armbands depicting combat ready atmosphere, the lawmakers’ unanimously re-echoed the whining of the leopard the moment the Speaker, Hon Adebo Ogundoyin, hit the gavel passing the bill into law.
Local hunters’ chants and songs immediately rented the air of the Hallowed Chambers with lawmakers congratulating each other on the extent of the job done.
In Ogun State, the state House of Assembly also passed the State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps Bill barely 19 days after receiving the bill from the Executive Arm, as part of its resolve to stem the tide of crimes, banditry and other violent acts.
The Bill titled: “HB No 35/OG/2020- “A Bill for a law to establish the Ogun State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps to Assist in Maintaining Law and Order in the State and Connected Purposes” was passed, yesterday, during a plenary presided over by the Speaker, Hon Kunle Oluomo.
The passage followed the presentation of report of the Special Ad-hoc Committee on Security and Strategy by the Majority Leader, Hon Yusuf Sherif.
Sherif, who moved the motion for the adoption of the report, was seconded by Hon. Musefiu Lamidi and supported by the Whole House through a voice vote after which the bill was later read and adopted Clause – by – Clause by the Committee of the Whole House.
The motion for the third reading of the bill was later moved by the Majority Leader, seconded by Hon. Olusola Adams, while the Acting Clerk of the Assembly, Deji Adeyemo, did the third reading of the bill.
Oluomo thereafter directed that a clean copy of the bill be forwarded to the Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun for his assent.
In Lagos State, the state House of Assembly at plenary, yesterday, passed the bill to create Amotekun Corps as a special unit of the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps.
It passed the bill after taking the third reading of the amendment to the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps Agency Law 2019.
The amendment bill had successfully gone through all the different stages of lawmaking, which includes first and second reading, holding public hearing, laying and presentation of committees report, adoption of report by House, third reading and finally passage.
In Osun State, the state House of Assembly, yesterday, passed the Osun Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps Establishment Bill 2020 after it was read for the third time.
The Amotekun bill was presented to the Osun Assembly on February 27 where it passed the first reading.
Subsequently, a public hearing was held by the Osun Assembly on February 24 to inject stakeholders contributions and suggestions into the bill.