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.

Saraki     Sunset Workers     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Ahmad Ali     Shettima     Saidu Kawu     Oluwole Dupe     Abubakar Baba     08001000100     Ahmed \'Lateef     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Oluranti Idowu     Ekiti     Moses Rahman Popoola     Ahman Patigi     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Saad Omo\'ya     Bashirat Bola Bello     Sa\'adu Salau     Ayekale     George Innih     Sarakite     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Budo-Egba     Kale Belgore     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Babajide Ajayi     Kwara TV     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Abatemi-Usman     Opobiyi     Olabode George Towoju     Tafida Of Ilorin     Sidikat Akaje     Niyi Ogundiran     Isiaka Alikinla     Grillo     Atiku     Sun Qing Rong     Naira Redesign     Rebecca Bake     Tayo Alao     Isa Aremu     HYPPADEC     Read With Me     Egbewole     Ibrahim Mohammed     Maigidasanma     Amos Sayo     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Abraysports FC     Monkey Pox     Galadiman Ngeri     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Bolaji Abdullahi     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Monthly Sanitation     Haliru Dantoro     Students Union Government     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Muhammed Danjuma     College Of Health     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Quareeb Islamic Association     Muhammed Aliyu     Bature Bello     Nurudeen Muhammed     Ojo Isekuse     Law School Scholarship     Afetu Of Alabe     NNPP     Ishola Abdullahi     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Apado    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Yahaya A Paniyaro     Rotimi Atere     Tunde Akanbi     Oke-Ode     Ahmed Bayero     Ojuekun Sarumi     Ogbondoroko     Albert Ogunsola     Imam Gambari     SDP     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Olabimpe Olani     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Oyun     Old Oyo     Aso Ofi     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Aliyu Adebayo     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Bello Oyedepo     March 18     Samuel Adaramola     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Bashir Adigun     Kwha.gov.ng     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Bashir Badawi     Balogun Gambari     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Magaji Are     Kale Kawu     2023 Elections     08001000100     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Olabode George Towoju     Unilorin FM     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Femi Gbajabiamila     ITEM 7     NTA Ilorin     Omu-aran     Alaaya     Yunus Lawal     Afeyin-Olukuta     Adebara     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Ilorin South     Offa     Ademola Kiyesola     Vasolar Consortium     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Kwara State Fire Service     Florence Saraki     Abubakar Usman Jos     Umaru Saro     Sa\'adu Salahu     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Olofa Of Offa     Ekweremadu     Javed Khan     Mumeen Lah     QuickWin     Guber Aspirant     Siraj Oyewale     Emir Of Lafiagi     Ayinke Saka     Kwara State Television     CT Ayeni     Gani Saadu     JSSCE     Kwara State Polytechnic     Garuba Alikinla Shittu