Segun Adebowale congratulates Mrs Olubunmi Olufunke Oni the 24th Oyo State Head of Service

Dear Ma,
LETTER OF CONGRATULATIONS

Please, on behalf of the Oyo State Amotekun operatives, accept my warm congratulations on your recent appointment as the new Head of Service of Oyo State Civil Service Commission under the good gesture of His Excellency Engineer Oluseyi Abiodun Makinde the Executive Governor of Oyo State and my best wishes for your success as you prepare to take up the mantle of leadership in the Oyo State Civil Service Commission and challenges of your high office as the Oyo State Head of Service.

As you resume to the office as the newly appointed Oyo State Head of Service, I wish to inform that the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps is unprofessionally administered when compare to the standard and professional regulation of the Oyo State Civil Service Commission, which is even cited as a long lasting regulation for the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps in section 39 (3) of the Oyo State Security Network Law 2020.

And also to reiterate that it is highly imperative and more advantageous for your administration to consider professionalism in the administration of the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun corps, as this shall make your administration an unforgettable one that redeem the Oyo State Amotekun operatives from the hand of poor administrators who plan no career progression and personnel development for the operatives of the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps.

Ma, you might have been briefed or may not aware of dearth of good administration confronting the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps, here are the brief of the unprofessional administration of the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps:

1. No code of conduct and operational guide line for the operatives, despite the efforts of His Excellency Engineer Oluseyi Abiodun Makinde and the impact of the Oyo State House of Assembly in provision of the Oyo State Security Network Law 2020. Though the law is being discarded by the Oyo Satae Amotekun Board of Governance and the Management team, so as to carry out their corrupt practices.

2. Disposing of the Oyo State Security Network Law 2020 by the Oyo State Amotekun Board of Governance and the Management team denied the Agency the opportunity of establishing various functional departments as contain in Section 4 (i-vi) of the Oyo State Security Network Law 2020. Which invariably give the Oyo State Board of Governance and the Management team opportunity of avoiding one of their responsibilities of grading the Oyo State Amotekun operatives as stated in section 8 (e) of the Oyo State Security Network Law 2020.

3. No proper Security Training for the Oyo State Amotekun Corps and the Board of Governance and the management team woefully failed for almost 3 years of establishment deem it fit to organize a training and retraining exercise for the Oyo State Amotekun operatives as contained in section 8 (d) and 15 (2e) of the Oyo State Security Network Law 2020.

4. All the Oyo State Amotekun operatives are placed on the same salary, even, the coordinators are not given and emolument / allowance and no monthly grant to any of the 33 Local Government of Oyo State.

5. 95% of the Local Government Coordinators can neither read nor write, which make them to reveal and handle some confidential documents carelessly.

6. Moreover, the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps failed to recognize Academic Certificate of selected few Oyo State Amotekun operatives who from time to time helped the Agency and the Oyo State Amotekuns commandant to present files and papers to the Oyo State Government on the activities of the Agency, despite the fact that the Board of Governance and the Management team are claiming that the Oyo State Amotekun operatives are being recruited on juju power, as this claim is contrary to the criteria provided in the Oyo State Security Network Agency Law 2020 in appointing the Board of Governance, the Commandant and the Seconded Civil Servants.

7. Likewise, the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps Board of Governance with the Management team has no standard for recruitment exercise as mapped out in section 39 (a) of the Oyo State Security Network Agency Law 2020, as this is evidence in first and second phase of the Agencys recruitment.

8. The Oyo State Amotekun Board of Governance and the management team fail in implementation of section 17 (2) of the Oyo State Security Network Agency Law 2020, this enable them to practice unprofessional administration of total closure of security office at the Local Government several occasions, for ordered the Amotekun operative to risk their lives in collection of document like I.D card, OYSHIA card, which, if in a professional administration might be sent to the Zonal offices for proper documentation and delivery.

9. The Oyo State Amotekun Board of Governance and the Management team for almost three years of its existence have not deem it fit to give letter of appointment and confirmation, stating the terms and condition of service to the Oyo State Amotekun operatives.

10. The recent unprofessional decision of the Oyo State Board of Governance and the Management team on the 12th April dismissed 25 Oyo State Amotekun operatives, whose some of their offence, if it were under the professional administration of the Oyo State Civil Service Commission, would first of all issued query letter, if the response is not justified enough, may be summon to disciplinary panel, which after investigated and find guilty of the offence stated in the code of conduct, may be due for punishment or in a severe and repeated offence (s) may be dismissed as recommended in the code of conduct which is grossly lacking in the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps. Some of the dismissed Amotekun operatives have never received a query letter nor summon to Oyo State Amotekun disciplinary Committee (which is not even constituted) before they were unlawfully and maliciously dismissed.

11. The administration of the Oyo State Security Network is being gender bias, religious bias, academic qualification bias, Oyo State zonal bias ( quota system is not considered, it is only Ibadan Amotekun operatives that are being recognized as active Amotekun operative). The Oyo State Amotekun operatives are working under unmotivated working condition.

12. Violation of the Oyo State Amotekun corps human right through a forceful traditional oath taken with a threat that any operatives that fail to take the traditional oath shall loss his / her job, which most is not ready to loss because of the job scarcity in the country. This is contrary the expected functions of the Agency in Section 6 (2) of the Oyo State Security Network Agency Law 2020.

The Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps is confronting with unrelated numerous administrative problems which emanate from the unprofessional administration employed by the Oyo State Amotekun Board of Governance and the Management team. The main secret behind this unprofessional administration is that most of the Oyo State Amotekun Board of governance members and the seconded civil servants are being cajoled by the Oyo State Amotekun commandant that the Oyo State Amotekun operatives are “Egbeji” he (commandant) can handle them and their “juju”. This is simply fallacy using to put the Oyo State Amotekun Board of governance and the management team under the control of the Oyo State Amotekun corps commandant.

My sincere prayer is that the God almighty shall give you a divine wisdom to do the right things that shall positively affect the lives of the Oyo State Amotekun operatives through establishment of professional standard in the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps.

Ma, let the Oyo State Amotekun operatives graciously benefit from your Gods giving appointment as the Oyo State Head of Service. You are implored to work in ensuring that professionalism arrive the administration of the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun corps.

I look forward to work with you not only to make professionalism arrives the Oyo State Security Network Agency and Amotekun corps administration but also to concert our efforts in the cause of peace and the brotherhood of all peoples.

Yours Sincerely,

Segun Adebowale.