PRESSS RELEASE
ALAPADO CHALLENGES EMIR OF ILORIN TO COURT OVER ALLEGATION OF CRIME
Federal Government allows traditional ruling institution 5%
of monthly federal allocation through the local government from the federation
account.
As a traditional ruler of Apado Land, Alapado Oba Titus
Suberu Ajibola of Ilorin East LGA, Kwara State has been denied his statutory
monthly entitlements over a year ago. However, it is now a crime to ask for
ones right according to the rule of law as the Emir and an agent of police,
State Intelligence Bureau (SIB), Kwara State Headquarters, recently served him
a letter of invitation and expects him to appear on Monday 5 December, 2016
under the cover-up of Security Meeting of which they have hidden agenda to
malign his personality and office.
This has become an aged long traditional injustice
perpetrating by the Emir in connivance with police in the state. This similar
development happened to a prominent ruler in Moro LGA, Kwara State some years
ago; the innocent chief was invited to the police station and later detained
for almost 19 days in the custody for security meeting! Injustice! But Alapado
wouldn’t wait for such fate to befall him since there is rule of law, except
otherwise. He is a traditional ruler and so is Emir, and if there is any
misunderstanding, the best thing to do is to litigate and settle the dust at
the court of justice not at the police state. So we stop using public
institutions sensitive like police to perpetrate crime, injustice, inhumanity
and insecurity!
Many times, the marginalized Yoruba traditional rulers have
sent petitions to the concerned bodies in the state but they remained
nonchalant over this open injustice from a quarter. We are crying out loud
again to the general public of human right activists, government and Yoruba
sons and daughters in Kwara, Nigeria and around the globe to help us against
this tactical neo-colonization. Apado Land is an autonomous ancient settlement
under the rulership of Alapado, Oba Titus Suberu Ajibola. We need freedom and
justice in our land.
Thanks.
