Brigadier-General Joe Komolafe (Rtd), Ekiti State Corps Commandant of Amotekun, has said that they will use ancient, local and modern security techniques to stop kidnapping, robbery, and other forms of crime in the state.
Komolafe made the comments during a sensitization tour to Ekiti West, Efon Alaaye, and Ijero Local Government Areas of the state.
According to him, the neglect of traditional culture and patterns of exposing criminals is part of the reasons for the surge of crime in the South-West region.
He charged traditional rulers to deploy their supernatural prowess to secure the lives and properties of their people.
The commandant who stated that the security outfit would protect the Southwest from invaders who had constantly threatened the region added that they would employ ancient Yoruba tactics of securing territories and fishing out criminals from their hideouts.
On the composition of the security outfit, Komolafe disclosed that the first phase of the recruitment was to establish an intelligence-based outfit and later accommodate Amotekin ambassadors who would serve as informants of the agency.
He further stated there will be no age limit to those who make up the ambassadorial category.
Part of his words read:
We want people that can enter the bush and give us native intelligence about criminal hideouts. People before us rose and fought invaders, we also want to rise and fight invaders. These invaders came with all forms of impunity, they kill, maim, rape, and destroy people’s farm produce.”
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