Nigerian Federalism and the Legality or Otherwise of Amotekun

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dc.contributor.authorAdebayo, Bamidele Olasehinde
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-29T14:01:41Z
dc.date.available2022-07-29T14:01:41Z
dc.date.issued2020-03
dc.description.abstractThe enormity of security challenges in Nigeria has gone beyond the control of the Nigerian Police Force. Several thousands of innocent Nigerians have lost either their lives or properties as a result of the security inadequacy. The fall out of this is that individuals, groups and even organizations have put in place some measures to assist the police who obviously appear incapable of effectively policing the entire country. One of such arrangements is the birth of Amotekun, which is the security network or outfit recently launched by the six governors of Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti, Lagos and Osun of the South West. The emergence of Amotekun has led to the pronouncement of the outfit as illegal by the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami. This pronouncement has sparked a lot of arguments, debates and even outright condemnations across various segments of the country and most especially, from the people of the South West who are directly concerned. Sequel to the above, this paper discusses the legality or otherwise of Amotekun especially in a heterogeneous country like Nigeria that professes to be practicing federalism as a system of government. The paper will consider whether Amotekun is legal or not within the ambit of the provisions of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and within the federal structure of the country.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.run.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/3533
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Jos Law Journalen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. 14, No. 1;
dc.subjectFederalismen_US
dc.subjectLegalityen_US
dc.subjectAmotekunen_US
dc.titleNigerian Federalism and the Legality or Otherwise of Amotekunen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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