Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has appointed a new chairman for the Board of the Oyo State Security Network Agency, codenamed Amotekun.
The new chairman of the security outfit’s Board is Assistant Inspector-General of Police Sikiru Kayode Akande (rtd).
This was as the governor reappointed all other members of the security outfit’s Board, with Mrs. I.E. Akibode, a civil servant, to serve as Secretary of the Board.
The governor, according to a letter by the Chief of Staff to the governor, Otunba Segun Ogunwuyi, charged the new chairman and the 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.
The 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) and Mrs. Hamzat Khadijat Ronke (members).
Other members are CP Samson Ogunlowo (rtd); the state Commissioner of Police; Oba Sunday Oladapo Oyediran; CDRE. R.A. Babalola (rtd); State Commandant; CP Sunday Odukoya (rtd) and representative of the Armed Forces of Nigeria.