Ekiti Assembly passes Amotekun bill into law
The Ekiti State House of Assembly has passed into law the
bill establishing Ekiti State Security Network Agency code-named Amotekun
Corps.
Funminiyi Afuye, the Speaker of the house, announced this
during the plenary today Friday February 14th and said the bill will now be
transferred to the state governor, Kayode Fayemi, for assent.
According to reports, the first two stages of passing the
bill to law were done on Thursday February 13th before the plenary was
adjourned till today. The lawmakers, who
debated the bill exhaustively in the chambers on Thursday, spoke on the
appropriateness of the proposed law in view of the security challenges facing
the state, region and Ekiti State.
A public hearing was also conducted on the Bill later on
Thursday. At the resumed sitting on Friday, the House Committee on Security
presented the committee’s report.
The report was adopted by the committee of the House, then
the Bill went into the third reading, which it passed through.
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