Insecurity: Ondo to spend just ₦3.2billion on security hardware for Amotekun, others.

Insecurity: Ondo to spend just ₦3.2billion on security hardware for Amotekun, others.

The Ondo government has disclosed that a total sum of ₦3.2billion will be spent on security this year.

The state Commissioner for Economic Planning & Budget, Mr Emmanuel Igbasan, said this while presenting the 2023 budget analysis to journalists in Akure, on Monday, January 9. He said the sum of ₦2billion was earmarked to provide security hardware for the Ondo State Security Network Agency also known as Amotekun.

Recall that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu had on December 5, 2022, presented a total budget proposal of ₦272.73 billion to the state House of Assembly but the lawmakers passed ₦275.98billion, which he signed into law in December.

According to Igbasan, “Provision of security hardware for Amotekun, ₦2billion; procurement of security vehicles, ₦500million; provision of security equipment/infrastructure, ₦700million & purchase of 10 motorcycles for bailiff & security personnel & other courts’ staff, ₦5million.”