https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbm4CsA_2HE

Hearther:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbm4CsA_2HE

This is wrong, it is an abomination to destroy a house in Benin, It seems the custodian of the culture as lost hold of the cultures and tradition of the land

If the custodian is the one desecrating the custom, what's my own? Abeg one bottle of zobo and carbin biscuits make I take follow up.

Anything obaship,i detest it because of this traditions issues

edo no be lagos awon oniranu gbogbo

Let's tease out the facts first. Who has C of O or relevant land title over the land?

Were people warned by the rightful owners of the land to stop and desist from trespassing?
What is the legal position/status of the land?

We Africans like to be too emotional most times and forget what is right or legal and claim victimhood.

I don't know who is right but if you do not understand Benin tradition, you talk ignorantly.

By Benin tradition, a new Oba can amend existing traditional law if people now hide under it to perpetrate illegality. Oba gha rioba, oghi domwen iyiogbon.

Not destroying already built houses was to protect ancestral homesteads (Igiogbe) when irresponsible children would sell family homesteads, demolished by rich new owners and family members chased out. With ancestors still buried in that plot/house.

Should we now allow the new rich to just buy up traditional land/ground from greedy local landgrabbers? It was the palace that proclaimed the law to stop tearing down homesteads in the past. So you now want the palace to become the victim of a law that meant well for the land but now abused by greedy lawbreakers?

All these localities/communities had large hectares of land decades back but all now sold. After eating the money, they now trespass and sell other people's land illegally.