Date: 2016-12-26

GRADING OF TRADITIONAL RULERS; MORO PEOPLE DEMAND FOR JUSTICE: AN APPEAL TO THE KWARA STATE GOVERNMENT, THE ILORIN RULING OLIGARCHY AND THE PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE INTRODUCTION

We, the undersigned indigenes and leaders of thoughts of Moro Local Government Area in Kwara State, on behalf of ourselves and the good people in the Local Government Area are constrained to present in writing to the people in authority and conscience in Kwara State in particular and the Nigeria Federation in general, our heartfelt pains and grievances arising from the way we have been treated as a people for over fifty years. We intend to bring to the notice of all, the systemic attempt by the ‘feudal’ lords in collaboration with the State authority to collectively perpetuate and sustain the oppression, subjugation, denigration and annihilation of the people of Moro Local Government Area, as demonstrated in the grading and re-grading of traditional institutions and rulers in Kwara State for over four decades. During the period under review, our traditional rulership system under the Ilorin "Emirate" have been intentionally, wrongfully and illegally sidelined and left out of the recognition and grading benefits, or in some cases degraded after having been graded. There is no doubt that the actions are clear indication of the fact that Moro Local Government Area and its people have been used as the sacrificial lamb by the ruling oligarchy of the so called "Emirate" in collaboration with the Kwara State Government.

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