A civil society organisation, the Initiative for Youth Growth and Peace Advocacy, IYDPA, has questioned the alleged deployment of Osun Amotekun Corps operatives to a personal power facility in Ondo State, whereas the safety outfit has dismissed the claims as false and politically motivated.
The controversy centres on allegations that personnel of the Osun Amotekun Corps had been stationed at Pacific Vitality Firm in Omotosho Village, Ondo State, a facility reportedly owned by Dr Deji Adeleke, elder brother of Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke.
In a press release issued in Osogbo, IYDPA known as on the Osun State Authorities to present a full rationalization concerning the alleged deployment of operatives exterior the state.
The organisation, by means of its Director Basic, Abdulrahman Al Amin, and spokesperson, Akinwale Kehinde, alleged that no fewer than 50 Amotekun operatives had been assigned to the facility situated alongside the Benin/Ore Street.
In accordance to the group, the reported deployment raises considerations concerning the priorities of the federal government at a time when many communities in Osun State proceed to face safety challenges, together with kidnapping, armed theft and different prison actions.
“The individuals of Osun deserve to know why a safety outfit funded by taxpayers is allegedly getting used to defend a personal industrial enterprise exterior the state whereas insecurity stays a priority in many communities,” the assertion mentioned.
IYDPA additional argued that the Amotekun Corps was established to complement typical safety businesses in defending lives and property inside Osun State and shouldn’t be diverted to assignments past its jurisdiction.
The organisation additionally expressed concern over stories that one of the operatives allegedly deployed to the facility sustained extreme accidents in an accident whereas travelling to Ondo State and was not adequately supported afterwards, a state of affairs it claimed resulted in the officer’s dying.
Responding to the allegations, the Osun Amotekun Corps issued a press release by its Public Relations Officer, Yusuf Idowu Abass, rejecting the claims in their entirety and describing them as false, baseless and deceptive.
The Corps mentioned it had not deployed 50 operatives or any of its personnel to an influence plant in Ondo State and maintained that the allegations had been aimed toward dragging the safety outfit into political controversy.
“The Corps describes the allegation as fully false, baseless, deceptive, and incapable of withstanding any goal scrutiny,” the assertion mentioned.
Amotekun acknowledged that it’s a safety establishment established by regulation to defend lives and property throughout Osun State and doesn’t serve the pursuits of any political social gathering, particular person, personal organisation or enterprise entity.
The Corps mentioned the “officers whose names had been reportedly linked to the allegations had been finishing up their lawful duties at its headquarters in Osogbo and different designated places inside the state.”
It added that “all personnel remained on operational standby and lively obligation in Osun in the course of the interval in query and that no deployment exterior the state occurred.
“The declare that fifty operatives had been mobilised exterior the state is totally fabricated and unsupported by information. Studies of an officer being concerned in an accident whereas travelling to Ondo State had been additionally “false and fictitious.”
The safety outfit urged members of the general public to disregard the allegations and reaffirmed its dedication to neutrality, professionalism and the safety of lives and property throughout Osun State.
