Supreme Court didn't cede any of our lands to Erinle - Offa Community

Date: 2021-09-14

The people of Offa in Offa local government area of Kwara state under the aegis of Offa Descendants Union (ODU) at the weekend said that the Supreme Court did not in any of its judgments, cede any parcel of lands belonging to Offa to her Erin-Ile neighbour.

The Offa Community also said that it rejected the existing unity road constructed by the then Governor Bukola Saraki in the state and urged the Kwara state government to take full possession of the area.

The current administration of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in view of the resumed clashes had set up a Peace committee that will hopefully find lasting solution to the agelong land disputes.

Recall that Offa and Erin-Ile in Oyun local government areas of Kwara state, have over the decades been enmeshed in bloody clashes over alleged land disputes.

ODU National President Dr Funsho Oladipo, whose address was read by Justice Banji Orilonise (rtd), at a press conference in Offa said," "That the Erin-Ile Community be made to understand that the Supreme Judgments of 1973 and 2018 did not award any Offa Land to Erin-Ile Community; The Kwara state government is advised to take over full possession of the Buffer zone as defined in the Kwara state legal Notices 1, 2, 3, & 4 1997; and that the two communities be encouraged to imbibe the culture of living in peaceful co-existence for the betterment of the two communities and the state."

On its rejection of Buffer Zone, the people of Offa said,"The Unity Road is not acceptable to Offa community as the boundary between Offa and Erin-Ile as well as between Offa local government and Oyun local government on that axis on the ground that the construction of the road violates Section 8 (4) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) as it relates to adjustment of local government boundary."

For lasting peace to reign between the two communities the people of Offa demanded that "The Kere Ipinle boundary established by the Col. Ibrahim Taiwo Peace Accord and signed by the two communities in 1975 which was also gazetted into law by Col. P.A.M Ogar in pursuant to the Kwara State Legal Notice No. 4 1997 must stand."

The Spokesperson said that the union had sent its positions to the peace committee set up by the current Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq led administration.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Mamman Saba Jibril     Democracy Day     Yunus Lawal     Hajj     Ijagbo Health Centre     Students Union Government     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Akeem Lawal     Haleeman Salman     Dan Masanin     Sola Saraki University     Umar Saro     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Sulyman Buhari     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Siraj Oyewale     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Maigida Soludero Transit     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Baba Issa     Mujtabah Bature     Jaiz Bank     Omotosho     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Yusuf Mubarak     Ahman Pategi University     Ile Arugbo     Olaitan Buraimoh     QuickWin     Iyabo Adewuyi     Osinbajo     FERMA     Kumbi Titiloye     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Oke Sunna     Yusuf Badmus     Egbejila     Kannike     Moro     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Kayode Yusuf     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Yusuf Abubakar     Olofa Of Offa     Yunus Oniboki     Waheed Ibrahim     Abdullahi Atanda     Kolawole Bashirat     Ahman Pategi     CLAY POT     Taofik Mustapha     Dele Belgore     Nigerian Army     Plat Technologies     Principal Private Secretary     Adedeji Onimago     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     General Hospital, Offa     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Kwara 2015     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Modupe Oluwole     Kazeem Oladepo     Gamji Members Association     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Lucky Omoluwa     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Arandun     Kwara Pdp     ER-KANG Mining     Nigeria Customs Service     Ronke Adeyemi     Odolaye Aremu     Sheu Ndanusa Usman    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Salihu Yahaya     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Lanre Issa Onilu     Babajide Ajayi     Olaoye B. Felix     Aliyu Adebayo     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Bolakale Ayo     Kwara Basketball Association     Henry Olaosebikan     Fola Consultant     Yakubu Dogara     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Oko Erin     Ahman Pategi University     Taofik Mustapha     Royal FM     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Oluronke Adeyemi     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Galadima     Bello Oyebanji     Adedipe     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Segun Abifarin     Bello Bature     Aminat Ahmed     Muhammadu Buhari     Funmilayo Mohammed     Isaac Gbenle     Usman Rifun     Olofa Of Offa     Abdulwahab Ololele     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Agbarigidoma     Eleja     Jimoh Bashir     Abatemi-Usman     Owo Isowo     IPSAS     Shao     Okin Malt     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Samuel Adedoyin     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Bola Shagaya     Ubandoma     Ilorin South     Baboko Primary School     Binta Abubakar Mora     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Fatimoh Lawal     Amuda Bembe     Tope Daramola     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Post Utme     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Salary     Kanu Agabi     Kwara State Sports Commission     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Femi Oladiji     Durosinlohun Atiku     Salake     CCB     Riskat Opakunle     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Folaranmi Aro