Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has appointed a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Sikiru Kayode Akande 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, to serve as secretary of the board.
The governor, according to a letter by the Chief of Staff to the governor, 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.
The members of the board are: 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; CDRE. R.A. Babalola (rtd) – Member; State Commandant – Member; CP Sunday Odukoya (rtd)- Member; Rep. Armed Forces of Nigeria – Member.
