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.

Saadu Alanamu     Ajakaye     James Ayeni     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Jelili Yusuf     Maja     KWASEIC     Wole Oke     Kayode Ishola     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Ilorin South     Towoju     Ajike People Support Centre     AbdulQowiy Olododo     TIC     General Hospital     Vasolar Consortium     IHS     Modibbo Kawu     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Ebola     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Just Law Forum     Ileloke     Iyabo Adewuyi     Pius Abioje     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Michael Nzwekwe     Oko Erin     Budo Egba     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Sobi     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Sulyman Tejidini     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Bibire Ajape     Tafida Of Kaiama     Sunday Fagbemi     Kwara State Television     Rasaq Jimoh     Sheikh Ariyibi     Twitter     11th Galadima     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Femi Agbaje     NaAllah     Kannike     Stephen Fasakin     Oni Adebayo     AGM Professional Services     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Revenue Court     Unilorin     SGBN     Olatunji Bamgbola     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Mujtabah Bature     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Ahmed Dankaya     Share     Ishaq Oloyede     Mohammed Ibrahim     National Information Technology Development Agency     Maigida     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Ifelodun     Kubra Kazum     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Hassan Saliu     Abraham Ojo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Ijakadi     Yusuf Lawal     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Oya State     NIPR     Ahmed Alhasssan     Offorjama     Khairat Gwadabe     ARMTI     Isiaka Gold     Saheed Alakoso     Government House     Olohungbebe     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Siraj Oyewale     Aiyedun     Oluronke Adeyemi     Bamidele Aluko     John Mayokun Dada     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Orire     Gbenga Awoyale     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Dorcas Afeniforo     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Zainab Abass     Yusuf Abdulkadir     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Malete     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Alabe     Olabimpe Olani     Salami Adekunle     Sheikh Alimi     Forgo Battery     Bature Bello     Erubu     Quareeb     Okanlawon Taiwo     Yusuf Mubarak     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Agbarigidoma     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Senate President     Idofin     Toyin Sanusi     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Esuwoye     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Babatunde Idiagbon     N-Power     Wole Oke     Alimi     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Kwara Poly     Gabriel Fashanu     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Makama Of Ilorin     Oke-Ode     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Shehu Adaramaja     Muhammed Danjuma     Olaoye B. Felix     KWASEIC     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Pakata Development Association     Maigidasanma     Lanre Badmus     Isau     Arinola Lawal     Alfa Modibbo Belgore