Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu said Lagos may not need Amotekun security outfit because men of Neighbourhood Watch personnel are currently doing the work of Amotekun in the state.
The governor, who spoke on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics at the Lagos House, said: “It’s just a name change in the case of Lagos. I appreciate what my colleague governors are doing, and they also appreciate the peculiar nature of Lagos.
“I have got over 7,000 neighbourhood watch personnel in Lagos, who are doing exactly the same thing that we have Amotekun doing.
“They are there at the border post giving us daily monitoring in their localities and feeding it back to the central. They are the ones feeding us with information. But they cannot carry arms and prosecute people.
“The borders that I have in Lagos are outside of the Atlantic Ocean is Ogun state.”
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On State police, Sanwo-Olu said the country is in dire need of state police to ameliorate different security challenges confronting it.
“It is long overdue. We should make it happen. In fact, that is one of the critical things that I believe will help us. It has been said over and over again,” he added.