Ogun State House of Assembly on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 passed into law, a bill to establish the Ogun State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps barely nineteen days after receiving the bill from the Executive Arm, as part of its determination to stem crimes and insecurities in the State.  

The bill titled: “HB No 35/OG/2020 – “A Bill for a law to establish the Ogun State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps to Assist in Maintaining Law and Order in the State and Connected Purposes” was passed during a plenary presided over by the Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo, following the presentation of report of the Special Ad-hoc Committee on Security and Strategy by the Majority Leader, Yusuf Sherif.   

Yusuf Sherif, the Majority Leader, presented the report of the Committee on Security and Strategy during plenary in Abeokuta.
Sherif stated that the committee recommended that the bill do pass as approved by the Conference of Speakers of Southwest state legislators.

The majority leader moved the motion for the adoption of the report, seconded by Musefiu Lamidi and supported by the whole House after which the bill was later read and adopted Clause-by-Clause by the Committee of the whole House. 

Sherif, thereafter moved the motion for the third reading of the bill seconded by Sola Adams.

The Acting Clerk of the House, Deji Adeyemo, read the bill for the third time while the Speaker, Rt Hon. Olakunle Oluomo, ordered that the clean copy of the bill be forwarded to Gov. Dapo Abiodun for his assent.

The lawmakers had during the second reading of the bill on February 20 stated that the bill was aimed to assist in maintaining law and order in the state.

They posited that the Amotekun corps would be a community policing body that would complement the work of other security agencies in the state.

The lawmaker stated that Amotekun was to curb criminal activities such as kidnapping, robbery, cultism and terrorism.