Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has appointed a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG Sikiru Kayode Akande (rtd), as the new chairman of the Board of the Oyo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun.
This was as the governor reappointed all other members of the security outfit’s Board, with Mrs. I.E. Akibode, a civil servant, as the Secretary of the Board.
This was made known in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Sulaimon Olanrewaju, on Monday, July 31.
The governor, according to a letter by the Chief of Staff to the governor, Otunba Segun Ogunwuyi, charged the new chairman and the Board members to see their appointments as a call to greater service.
The duo of the Special Adviser on Security to the governor, CP Fatai Owoseni (rtd) and Executive Assistant on Security to the governor, CP Sunday Odukoya (rtd), are statutory members of the Board.
Members of the Board are as follows: AIG Sikiru Kayode Akande – Chairman; Col. Bisiriyu Olayinka Olayanju – Member; Mrs. I.E. Akibode – Secretary; CP Fatai Owoseni (rtd) – Member; Mrs. Hamzat Khadijat Ronke – Member;
CP Samson Ogunlowo (rtd) – Member; Commissioner of Police – Member;
HRM (Oba) Sunday Oladapo Oyediran – Member; Commodore R.A. Babalola (rtd) – Member; State Commandant – Member; CP Sunday Odukoya (rtd)- Member; and
representative of Armed Forces of Nigeria – Member.
