Jebba Community Urges Kwara Govt To Pay Monarch's 21-Year Outstanding Salary

Date: 2024-01-18

The people of Jebba community in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State have cried foul over the non-payment of the salary and emoluments of their traditional ruler, Oba AbdulKadir Alabi Adebara, by successive governments since the monarch ascended the throne of his forefathers in 2003 despite a subsisting court judgment directing the state government to pay same to the 3rd Class Royal Father.

Addressing journalists on Wednesday in the ancient Yoruba town, the spokesman for Jebba community, High Chief AbdulGaniyu Jaiyeola Omotosho, has, therefore, made a passionate appeal to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to direct immediate payment of the 21 years of unpaid salary and personal emoluments to their monarch.

The community also demanded the upgrading of the stool of their monarch from the current Third Class Status to First Class as was the case of his other colleagues in parts of the state.

The spokesman reiterated that a Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin on January 29, 2014, upheld Oba Adebara's appointment and grading as 3rd class monarch, which the Court described as legal, valid and subsisting, adding that though the case was eventually appealed, by the government the Appellate Court eventually struck it out for lack of diligent prosecution and for being statute barred.

“Ever since the judgment, several letters had been written to both past and present government for the implementation of the court judgment, starting with the payment of all withheld salaries, allowances and other personal emoluments, all to no avail.

“The last straw that broke the camel's back is the Oba of Jebba's letter of appeal to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq dated August 31st, 2023 requesting for the payment of his personal emoluments and the implementation of the court judgment.

“We have strong reasons to believe that some officials of the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs working in cohorts with one or two traditional rulers are out to frustrate the payment of the accumulated salaries and allowances of our monarch.

“These traditional rulers have vowed that as long as they live, the Oba of Jebba shall not earn any salary. That, perhaps, is their second worse option having failed to dethrone the Oba through malicious criminal charges.

“We, therefore, request Governor AbdulRazaq to direct his searchlight on the state Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs over alleged removal from circulation the relevant subject file on Oba of Jebba's request.”

He called on the state Governor to “immediately constitute a separate Traditional Council for Moro Local Government and an immediate upgrading of the stool of Oba of Jebba to First Class status in line with his contemporaries of 1983.

“It is our prayer that Kwara will continue to progress in peace and unity where no one will be oppressed,” he added.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ayobami Akanbi     Erin-ile     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Toyin Sanusi     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Jide Ashonibare     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Olatunde Olukoya     Yunus Lawal     CCT     Saheed Alakoso     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Kwara Restoration Project     Reuben Paraje     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Umar Danladi Shero     Hassan Oyeleke     Democracy Day     Tsaragi/Share     Kisira     Kayode Alabi     Jimoh Akani     Radio Kwara     Akanji     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Emmanuel Bello     Galadima     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Ibrahim Bio     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     KWIRS     Folashade Omoniyi     Saidu Kawu     Oja-Oba     Nigeria Customs Service     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Abatemi Usman     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Ojo Fadumila     Titus Ashaolu     Jamiu Oyawoye     Alabi Lawal     Abraysports FC     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Woro     Allocation     Sulu Gambari     JUSUN     Bolakale Ayo     Moses Rahman Popoola     Alikinla     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Elelu     Idofin     Split Diamond Interchange     Lafiagi     Kwara Apc     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     LABTOP     Mohammed Abdulahi     RTEAN     Salary     Afonja Descendants Union     07039448763     Joseph Alex Offorjama     University Road     Kawu Baraje     Gbugbu International Market     Ahman Pategi     Bursary     Flights To Ilorin     Olatinwo     Abdulfatai Baakini     Saliu Ajibola Ajia    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

George Innih     Tunji Ajanaku     Tsaragi-Share     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Kale Belgore     Ajidagba     Chief Imam Of Offa     Durosinlohun Kawu     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Osi     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Sulaiman Gado     Sabitiyu Grillo     Durbar     Jawondo     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     08001000100     Salman Suleiman     Rashidi Yekini     Erubu Oba Zubair     Al-Ilory     Akorede     Pius Abioje     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Ayo Opadokun     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Babs Iwarere     Hijab     Okasanmi Ajayi     A.E. Afolabi     Sobi Specialist Hospital     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Muhammed Danjuma     Bareke     Omotoso Musa     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Doyin Group     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Ahmed     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Kemi Adeosun     Abdulkareem Alabi     Adedeji Onimago     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Ajia-Bako     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Jalala     Yoonus Lawal     Alfa Belgore     Abatemi-Usman     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Congress For National Consensus     Sobi FM     Sulyman Buhari     Sola Saraki University     Falokun-Oja     Atiku Abubakar     Ojuekun Sarumi     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Medview Airlines     Jumoke F. Ajao     United Nigeria Congress Party     Memunat Monsuma     Taofeeq Olateju     Revenue Court     Bio Ibrahim     Mufti Of Ilorin     KWATMA     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited