BY OLA AJAYI
IBADAN – ALAAFIN of Oyo, Oba Lamidi
Adeyemi has described as desecration of
the sacred traditional institution for the
police to invite a monarch to their station to
make a statement.
Instead, Oba Adeyemi noted the police
should go to the palace of the monarch to
make enquiries.
He was reacting to the invitation of
Sabiganna of Iganna, Oba Soliu Oyemonla
Azeez, by the police on the invasion of the
farmlands of his subjects by some Fulani
herdsmen.
Alaafin, who was speaking at the 3rd year
coronation anniversary of Sabiganna of
Iganna, said the action was ridiculous and
insulting on the traditional institution of
obaship.
The foremost traditional ruler further said,
“a situation where traditional rulers were
being called upon to come to police station
to make statements is ridiculous.”
According to him, a police man should go
to the Oba’s palace to make enquiries from
him and not the other way round. “This
kind of nonsense must stop”, he warned.
Also, he advised the Oyo State Government
to encourage the establishment for the
people of Iganna in the Iwajowa Local
Government Area of Oke Ogun in Oyo State.
He stated that it was risky for the people
living in the area to travel about 25
kilometres to another town before they
could deposit or withdraw money.
Alaafin said the situation was a major
challenge to the Deputy Governor, Chief
Moses Alake Adeyemo, a retired bank
official.
Chief Adeyemo stressed further that the call
for the establishment of the bank was
necessary to save the residents from
armed robbery attacks.
He added that absence of a single bank in
the whole of Iganna was an indication that
the town was lagging behind in the area of
social and infrastructural development.
Oba Adeyemi also tasked the Action
Congress of Nigeria (ACN) administration to
relocate the local government headquarters
from Iwere-Ile to Iganna where it was
initially located

I agree with Alaafin.

Kabiyesi, agba o ni tan lorile. Ase!

i think the traditional leaders should fight for their position in the polity.
At least majority of them are now educated, they negotiated the amalagamation and signed the treaty before the elites came around.