The Amotekun Corps is charged with first line responsibility to:
a. Systemically gather document, evaluate, and analyze data and information to convert to actionable intelligence for tactical, operational and strategic goals.
b. Share intelligence about crime, crime in progress, suspicious activities, criminal suspects, and other criminal activities.
c. Collaborate with similar security agencies in other States, including but not limited to Lagos, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo States to deter kidnapping, terrorism, disruption of livelihood, criminal damage to property, cultism, highway robbery, any other criminal activities, and to assist the police in apprehending such criminals.
d. Protect lives and property within the State.
e. Ensure that all persons traveling along highways, major roads, remote areas, hinterlands, and forests are free to engage in their normal social and economic life without fear or hindrance.
f. Assist the police to carry out any other lawful activity aimed at maintaining law and order in the State.
In fulfilling these primary responsibilities (protection of persons, protection of property, and emergency-response services), the duties of operative include, but are not limited to:
a. Collaborating with and assisting the police and other security Agencies in gathering information about crime, crime investigation, arrest and prosecution of persons suspected or involved in kidnapping, terrorism, cattle rustling, cultism, highway robbery, illegal mining, trespass to farmland, illegal logging and other criminal activities.
b. Collaborating with and assisting the police and other security agencies in maintaining law and order within the State by:
i. Making relevant information on crime, crime in progress, crime related activities, suspicious activities, and criminal suspects available.
ii. Ensuring that offenders are identified, arrested, registered, and promptly handed over to the nearer Police station or post.
iii. Giving timely report of suspicious activities and crimes in progress to aid effective policing of the State.
iv. Providing the Police and other security agencies with relevant information to aid in the effective policing of the State,
c. Disarming unauthorized persons in possession of arms and other dangerous weapons,
d. Rendering prompt assistance to crime and accident victims
e. Undertaking routine day and night patrols on interconnected roads and establishing surveillance on highways, major roads, remote areas, hinterlands, and forests.
f. Undertaking joint operations with the Police and other security agencies in furtherance of the objects of the Agency.
g. Reacting and responding to distress calls promptly and strategically
h. Preventing highway crimes and any other criminal activities by way of local intelligence gathering and use of technology.
i. Carrying out such other lawful directives as the Governor may expressly give to the Ogun State Amotekun Corps in relation to security and the maintenance of public order and safety.
j. Prevention private, individual or collective farmland incursion and destruction.
k. Preventing illegal mining by unauthorized persons or companies.
