The Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that the state does not need to inaugurate the Western Nigeria Security Network popularly known as Amotekun.

Sanwo-Olu said this during a Channels Television programme, Sunday Politics.

He stated further that the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps were already doing the work of Amotekun in the state.

“It’s just a name change in the case of Lagos. I appreciate what my colleague governors are doing, and they also appreciate the peculiar nature of Lagos.

“I have got over 7,000 neighbourhood watch personnel in Lagos, who are doing exactly the same thing that we have Amotekun doing.

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“They are there at the border post giving us daily monitoring in their localities and feeding it back to the central. They are the ones feeding us with information. But they cannot carry arms and prosecute people.

“The borders that I have in Lagos are outside of the Atlantic Ocean is Ogun state,” he said.