Aiyedatiwa: Ondo State’s Security Non-negotiable,Amotekun Inducts 500 New Men

Fidelis David in Akure 

Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has said his administration’s decision to strengthen and consistently invest in the Amotekun Corps was informed by clear-eyed realism and strategic foresight, rather than sentiment, politics or fleeting expediency. 

He cautioned that no society could prosper in an atmosphere of fear, and that no economy could thrive where lives and property were unsafe.

He added that no government could also legitimately claim success if it failed in its primary responsibility of protecting its people.

The governor disclosed this during the passing-out parade of  500 New operatives  (BR05) of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, Amotekun Corps, held at Arcade Complex in Akure. 

Describing the ceremony as symbolic, strategic and historic, the governor said the event marked a decisive moment in consolidating the state’s security architecture. 

Reminiscing about the event, he remarked that the scene evoked memories of his late predecessor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, the erstwhile Amotekun 001.

The newly recruited operatives, he noted, were well-trained, disciplined and ideologically re-oriented men and women who have willingly offered themselves in service to the peace, stability and collective survival of Ondo State.

Congratulating them on completing what he characterised as a rigorous training programme, Aiyedatiwa observed that they arrived as civilians but were departing as guardians of the homeland, ambassadors of lawful authority and custodians of community trust.

The corps, he said, was conceived and has continued to evolve as a community-rooted, intelligence-driven, law-guided and constitutionally aligned security institution, designed to complement federal security agencies while responding swiftly and effectively to local realities without compromising the Iwa–Omoluabi ethos.

According to him, BR05 represented not merely an addition in numbers but an upgrade in capacity, a reinforcement of doctrine and a strengthening of the collective resolve to secure every inch of Ondo State from forests to farms and from highways to homes.