Shehu Sani Calls For Creation Of ‘Amotekun’ In Northern Nigeria

Former Kaduna senator Shehu Sani has called for the creation of a regional security outfit in Nigeria’s northwest.

If created, the security setup will be similar to the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), aka ‘Operation Amotekun,’ it appears.

Sani made the call in the wake of the life-claiming attacks on Abuja Kaduna trains by t*rrorist bandits.

“We need our own North Western Security Network (NWSN) to tackle bandits,” he demanded in a social media post on Wednesday.

“If you are traveling to and from Kaduna by road or rail, until you pass the villages of Rijana or Katari before you know that you have made your journey; anything short of that your life is on a scale of probability,” in a separate post on Twitter.

“If the government and security agencies can’t crush these t*rrorists and bandits k*dnapping and k*lling our people in Northern and Southern Kaduna, people should be officially allowed to carry same we@p0ns and let’s see who owns the land,” Sani demanded in another tweet on Thursday morning.

Amotekun was created to tackle security challenges in the South-West following incessant k*dnappings, r*pe, armed robberies, farm vandalism and k*llings allegedly carried out by herdsmen.

Prominent voices in the North, including ones from Aso Rock, had kicked against the move but the federal government allowed Amotekun to run after getting assurances that it would not supercede the police and other federal-government-controlled security agencies. South-West governors were also adamant.

Under Nigerian law, the armed forces, including the police, are controlled by the president.

Amotekun is, however, under state and regional control.