A human rights organization, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) has reinstated the call to Ogun State Government under the leadership of Prince Dapo Abiodun to declare the traditional seat of Onihunbo of Ihunbo stool vacant over what it perceived as illegal and untraditional imposition of a known smuggler,bunkerer and Land-grabber,one Mr. Joseph Olamide Adesiyan as monarch of the ancient town.

The group also gave the State government 21 day ultimatum to the State government to declare the stool vacant by setting up an Independent Panel of Inquiry to investigate the hanky-panky surrounding illegal and acclaimed purported installation of Mr. Olamide Adesiyan as Onihunbo without following the order of rotation as stipulated in the 1956/1957 Ihunbo Chieftaincy declaration,maintaining that the ultimatum commences from Monday 15th of March,2021 and after the end of the ultimatum, the group would take all the democratic means of redressing the illegality

It described Mr. Adesiyan as fake monarch,who should stop parading himself as monarch in and outside the State for wanton of due process as contained in the order of rotation in 1956/1957 Ihunbo Chieftaincy declaration and Court Affidavit of Princess Victoria Adenike Fagbohun(nee Kilanko Adeyemi) dated 27th day of February,2018.

It would be recalled that the ancient town of Ihunbo in Ipokia Local Government area of the State has been engulfed in Obaship and Community crisis since Friday 17th of March,2017 at about 7.29pm when Adesiyan, Mr. Fatai Isiaka and Mr. Babajide Titus ( aka- Oppressor) led 46 Armed thugs with the supervision of men of Nigeria Police Force (NPF) coordinated by one ACP Samuel Titus and 21 men of 192 Battalion of Nigeria Army base in Owode-Yewa,to burn down the Onihunbo’s palace on the support of former Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s elder brother, Alhaji Abidoye Amosun popularly called “Alhaji Agba”.

They embarked on illegal and brutal journey on the Chieftaincy matter then as part of their efforts to impose Adesiyan as Onihunbo through backdoor, forgetting that power was transient in this life and believing that they have the backing of the then Governor Ibikunle Amosun who has immunity to do anything as they wanted then.

It added that immediately they burnt down the Onihunbo’s palace,they turned Adesiyan’s private residence to the palace where they claimed to make him(Adesiyan) illegal monarch of the ancient town and this was against the norms and customs of Yoruba traditional institution.

It alleged that the perpetrators of the evil and dastard act against the innocent citizens of the Ihunbo Community have been striving hard to pervert the cause of justice on the matter since all this while, particularly, during Ibikunle Amosun administration.

CHRSJ insisted that Prince Dapo Abiodun led administration should set up Independent Panel of Inquiry which would comprise of members of International human rights organization like Amnesty International and others; in order to unravel the truth surrounding the whole scenario in respect of Obaship tussle in Ihunbo.

It was against this background that the human rights body put up a signed Petition Letter dated 14th of December,2020 by the CHRSJ’s Executive Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman and copies were also made available to newsmen on Thursday.

The letter forwarded to the Executive Governor of the State,Prince Dapo Abiodun, Speaker of the State House of Assembly, State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice and State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.

The letter read thus; “In view of this, it is giving us the authority to file this protest petition letter to your reputable office on behalf of the Principal complainants, petitioners and authentic citizens of Ogun State and indigene of Ihunbo town in Ipokia Local Government area.The petitioners are;Alfa Akeem Babatunde,Mr. Sola Fadairo and Alhaji Abubarkar Salami and they are also the victims of the indubitable facts that jungle rule of delusive demagogues and desperadoes are being satanically entrenched in Ihunbo town, perpetrated by all aforementioned perpetrators and their security personnel since 2017 up till today with the series of evidences to prove it.

“Which we promised to provide and present at the panel of Inquiry or in anywhere you call us upon to defend and present it as acknowledgements, annexures and exhibits to your office for your perusal in order to assist the committee to quickly grant the
petitioners and victims their request.

“Conversely,it is rather unfortunate and surprise that the matter was later metamorphosing into the different criminal nature like physical attacked, peculiar assault, common assault, attempted murder and killing of innocent souls in Ihunbo town and its environs with other fusillade of threats alleged to have been fired at the authentic indigenes of the town by those leaders of hoodlums including;Mr. Olamide Adesiyan.

“In view of the foul play surrounding the issue,we observed that their whole actions abinitio premised on frivolity,illegality, callousness and unmitigated barbarism as evidences presented in this Petition Letter”.

It submitted that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing Justice and truth and “fiat justitiae ruat column” means let justice be done even if heaven will fall.

It therefore, urged the State Governor and other authorities concerned to use their good offices to expedite necessary action in a jiffy to address the issues raised by treating all the necessary documents attached to the protest letter with utmost priority.

Source: StreetReporters.ng

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