Ogun State government has set up a committee to review the appointment, installation and promotion of some traditional rulers in the state.
The review will affect the 75 persons installed as kings by the immediate past governor of the state, Ibikunle Amosun, shortly before his exit – between February 2019 and May 28, 2019.
According to a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Ogun State, Mr. Kunle Somorin, the committee is saddled with the responsibility of identifying all the Obas and Chiefs whose appointments or promotions were within the review period as contained in the recent resolution of the Ogun State House of Assembly.
The cases would be reviewed separately to determine whether the appointments or promotions were in accordance with due process and extant laws of Ogun State.
The committee would also identify and address any other issue that the committee might consider relevant to its assignments and make appropriate recommendations as deemed necessary to the government.
In the committee are His Royal Majesty Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, Olu of Ilaro and Paramount Ruler of Yewaland (chairman); His Royal Highness, Oba Yinusa Adekoya, the Dagburewe of Idowa; His Royal Highness, Oba Adewale Osiberu, the Elepe of Epe, Sagamu; High Chief Yinka Kufile, the Aro of Egbaland; Babajide Oyeti, former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs; and Lanre Osota, the current Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.
Osota will serve as the secretary of the committee.
It would be recalled that the installation of the traditional rulers has been a source of controversy.
The House of Assembly, barely some hours after the end of Amosun’s administration passed a resolution suspending the latest appointment of traditional rulers.
The appointments affected are those made between February 2019 and May 28, 2019.
The argument was that due process was not followed.
The installation of the kings also caused disenchantment among the people of Aworiland who claimed that some non-indigenes were imposed on them as kings.
At a press conference addressed by the Olota in Council, the people of Aworiland vowed to resist any imposition of non-indigenes on them as kings.
