Soji Ajibola, Ibadan
Oyo State Government has approved the recruitment of 3,000 personnel for the State Security outfit code named Amotekun.
Chairman of the outfit and former director of military intelligence, General Kunle Togun (rtd), who disclosed this to newsmen in Ibadan on Thursday, explained that interested applicants would be expected to apply online.
General Togun stated that Oyo State had been divided into five in order to ensure effective mobilisation and training of men for the security job.
He explained that among those to be recruited are hunters, vigilance groups and Agbekoya members, who are residents in various communities and whose age ranges between 18 and 60.
The Amotekun Chairman gave an assurance that when fully operational, the people of the state would soon go to sleep with their two eyes closed.
He decried a situation in the recent past, when farmers could no longer go to their farms as a result of the invasion by Fulani herdsmen.
General Togun said that in line with the mandate given to the Amotekun Corps by the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, everything possible would be done to ensure that state is not only peaceful, l but investor-friendly.