Bolu Adeosun welcomes the recent launch of the South-West Security Network codenamed Amotekun in Ogun State
To say the very least, Nigeria is currently at a crossroads security-wise. Only this week, hoodlums invaded the fortress housing the Imo State police command and the Owerri prisons, setting buildings and vehicles ablaze and freeing inmates. According to reports, policemen in the South-east geopolitical zone are afraid to put on their uniforms, and attacks on police and military formations are heightening in the South-south, North-west, North-east and North-central zones. The North is groaning under the weight of banditry and kidnapping while the South-west, the focus of this piece, has become the site of ceaseless rampage by nomadic herdsmen who abduct, rape, mutilate and butcher people at will, particularly on farmlands. Food insecurity worsens by the day as life becomes nastier, shorter and more brutish.. It is therefore trite noting that the reality of the moment has made i