Iwoye community of Ayedun, Oke-Ero Local Government of Kwara State yesterday urged Goverrnor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to intervene in the alleged lingering chieftaincy dispute between two parties in the community.
The community also decried the alleged injustice being meted out to some of its members by a certain group as a result of the chieftaincy dispute.
The community said that a certain group in the Ministry of Justice had been dropping the name of the office of the Attorney General of the state to shield perpetrators of some crimes in the community.
Addressing reporters in Ilorin, the counsel for Iwoye community, Akinmade Abolarin, urged the governor to prevail on the attorney general to maintain neutrality in the dispute.
Flanked by some other chiefs in the community, Abolarin said on two occasions, some persons dropped the name of the attorney general to get those standing trial for criminal offences off the hook.
“The main issue for calling this news conference is the glaring injustice being perpetrated by a certain group of people in the Ministry of Justice, Ilorin, Kwara State.
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“We say group of people because we are in the full belief that Governor AbdulRazaq does not partake in any activity capable of causing injustice”, he said.
He said such exercise of powers, which he said might not even be in the know of the attorney-general, was an abuse of power.
The community also called on the House of Assembly to invite the attorney general to get to the root of the matter in the interest of justice.
“Our humble but desperate appeal is to the executive governor of Kwara State, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to in the interest of justice and public interest and in order to prevent a continued abuse of legal process, caution the office of the attorney general and direct him to exercise his powers judicially and judiciously.
“We also appeal to the House of Assembly to invite the attorney general to appear before it and explain the attorney general’s stand in Ayedun and Iwoye matters”, he said.
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