Kwara Community Demands Monarch's 21 Years' Pay, Urges Probe
Traditional ruler of Jebba in Mooro Local Council of Kwara State, Abdulkadir Adebara, as well as his chiefs and subjects, has appealed to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to pay his salary arrears of over two decades.
The community also urged the governor to rise to the administrative challenges of his office by investigating how the monarch's files disappeared in the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.
Specifically, the 101-year-old king told newsmen, in his palace, yesterday, that he had neither been paid salary nor emoluments accrued to his office since he became the Oba 21 years ago.
He urged AbdulRazaq to “do the needful for me by giving me all my salaries and due entitlements deprived me since I was rated by the late Mohammed Lawal.”
Also, the community chiefs, led by the Eesa of Jebbaland, Jaiyeola Omotosho, recalled that Adebara was appointed the Oba of Jebba, of third class status, on May 16, 2003 by the then Governor Lawal (of blessed memory).
Earlier in 1983, The Guardian gathered, the stool of the Oba of Jebba was graded third class by the late Governor Adamu Attah, but was withdrawn in 1984 by the military regime of Group Capt. Salaudeen Latinwo.
“We have strong reasons to believe that some officials of the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, in cahoots with one or two traditional rulers, are out to frustrate the payment of the accumulated salaries and allowances of our monarch,” the chiefs alleged.
They, however, wanted the governor to constitute separate traditional council for Moro Local Council and immediately upgrade the stool of Oba of Jebba to first class status in line with his contemporaries of 1983 such as Elese of Igbaja, Olosi of Osi, Olupako of Share, Etsu Tsaragi.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Ekiti Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd Hakeem Lawal Femtech TIIDELab Ayeyemi Sulaiman TETFUND Hajj Baruten Teachers Specific Allowance Taofik Mustapha Onilorin Bayo Ajia Olofa Of Offa Alapansapa Mohammed Yisa United Nigeria Congress Party John Kehinde Salako Rapheal Ashaolu Facebook Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq Igosun JAMB Share Ilorin Emirate Yusuf Lanre Badmas Fatai Adeniyi Garba Abdulfatai Baakini Amuda Bembe Toun Okewale-Sonaiya Abdulrazaq Adebayo CT Ayeni Abdulazeez Uthman Nigeria Customs Service Sai Kayi Student Learning Support Helpline Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat Bond Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Smart School Ope Saraki Sam Onile Lanre Badmus Oyin-Zubair Simeon Sayomi Gwanara Public Holiday Olosi Of Osi Kayode Oyin Zubair Sulyman Buhari Abdulrazaq Sanni Erubu Oba Zubair Funmilayo Braithwaite Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria MMWG Forgo Battery Company Limited Fatimat Saliu Salman Jawondo Oke-Ode CLAY POT ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited Oluwole Dupe Abatemi Usman SAPZ Project Freshvine Nigeria Limited Idiagbon Muhammed Aliyu Ibrahim Orire College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies IESA Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi Kulende Ahman Pategi TIC Ilorin.Info Bilikis Oladimeji Omotosho

