Group to Adeleke: Don’t politicise Amotekun recruitment

Osun State

A civil society group in Osun State has warned against politicising the recruitment process of personnel of that state security outfit, the Amotekun Corps.

Known as TOP, the group, which has the mandate to ensure equity, fairness and justice in the society, gave the warning as the state government begins the process of recruiting 1,000 Amotekun Corps cadets.

The cadets’ recruitment was approved by Governor Ademola Adeleke to beef up security across the state. The process started last week.

Giving his Monthly state-of-the-State address to reporters in Osogbo, TOP’s Executive Director, Prof Wasiu Oyedokun-Alli, said employing security personnel should not be based on political loyalty, but patriotism to the state.

He said: “The sensitive nature of Amotekun Corps as a security outfit makes it paramount that we warn the Ademola Adeleke-led administration not to make recruitment into the Corps a political affair.

“We must ensure that only those with passion to ensure security of lives and property are employed into the outfit.”

Commending the state government for its plan to recruit into the Amotekun Corps and the Imole Youths Empowerment scheme, he stressed the need to allow diversity in the process without giving priority to any political party.

While commending the state government for its plan to recruit into the Amotekun Corps and also into the Imole Youths Empowerment scheme, he stressed the need to allow diversity in the process with giving priority to any political party.

His words, “The plans to recruit into both organizations will not just provide short to long term empowerment for successful candidates, but it will also serve as a long term means of human capacity development in our State.

“Our vast population of young unemployed persons has already become a thing of worry for most concerned stakeholders in our society. Such massive recruitment is thus a welcome development.

“However, as has been noted in previous government recruitment of this nature, politics has the capacity to derail whatever good intentions government may claim to have”.

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