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The Guardian gathered, the stool of the Oba of Jebba was graded third class by the late Governor Adamu Attah, but was withdrawn in 1984 by the military regime of Group Capt.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.
Erubu Oba Zubair Ishak Mohammed Sabi Sobi Specialist Hospital ENetSuD COVID-19 Palliatives 2017 Budget Kwara State Pension Board Park Abubakar Atiku Kwara Teaching Service Commission Sidikat Akaje Minimum Wage Gobir Bukola Saraki Yahaya Oloriegbe Ajuloopin Government House Yakubu Dogara Tanke Flyover Bridge C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng Ibrahim Gambari Mohammed Yahaya Barki Ibrahim Abikan Oke-Ero Illyasu Abdullahi KWASEIC Asa Hassan Saliu Ilorin South Zara Umar Micheal Imoudu Alfa Belgore Funmilayo Braithwaite Bureau Of Lands Sunday Otokiti Abdulquawiy Olododo CUTI Neuropsychiatric Hospital Shagari Egbejila Maryam Nurudeen National Association Of Nigerian Students Tunde Saad Buhari Maigidasanma Taofik Mustapha Abdulrauf Yusuf Agboola Abdulraheem Hausa Nurudeen Muhammed Oba Abdulrahim Bankole Omisore Kwara State Governor Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh Mutawali Alaaya Abdulfatai Baakini Aro Yahaya John Dara Unilorin FM Abdulmumini Jawondo Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita Unilorin Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu Arinola Lawal Igosun Ilorin International Airport Gbugbu International Market Agbarigidoma Yakubu Gobir Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon Quareeb Lateef Alagbonsi Kwara United Zaratu Umar Aliyu Adebayo Saka Isau

