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  • Monarchs seek boundary dispute settlement

    Some traditional rulers in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State have urged the Fashola administration to intervene in their boundary dispute.

    Alimosho was split into six councils by the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration in 2004. They are – Alimosho Local government, Mosan-Okunola, Agbado-Oke Odo, Egbe-Idimi, Ayobo-Ipaja and Ikotun-Igando Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs).

    The dispute is between Mosan-Okunola, Agbado-Oke Odo and Egbe-Idimu LCDAs.

    Speaking yesterday during stakeholders’ summit on the council’s budget, the six traditional rulers in Mosan-Okunola LCDA urged the government to intervene in the boundary dispute.

    The Baale of Amosu, High Chief Solomon Amosu, who spoke on behalf of others, said it was high time government did a proper demarcation.

    Amosu claimed that Iyana-Ipaja, Amo Oil and up till Command Bridge are under Mosan-Okunola, but the inhabitants are paying taxes to Ayobo-Ipaja and Agbado-Oke Odo.

    “It is unfortunate that our council that is largely residential has some of its axes with markets and garages paying levies to other councils that have numerous sources of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). More worrisome is that the people in those areas enjoy the amenities provided by Mosan-Okunola despite its meagre revenue,” he said.

    This, he said, is unfair to the council and its inhabitants.

    The Baale of Odemuyiwa, High Chief Solomon Aina, said the people in Celiat and Abule-Odu axis should be paying their levies to Mosan-Okunola instead of Egbe-Idimu LCDA.

    According to him, the people using the garage and marketers enjoyed the infrastructure put in place by Mosan-Okunola LCDA, querying the payment of levies and tenement rates to another council.

    Aina urged the council boss, Hon Abiodun Mafe, to take the matter up with the state government.

    He appealed to the Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon Ademorin Kuye, who is familiar with the areas to look into the matter.

    In his remark, Mafe described the summit as impetus to the council’s growth.

    Our input, he said, should be directed at charting a viable economic path for our people with far reaching positive effect to create a brighter hope for generations unborn.

    “Let me remind us again, that the business of budget is a fundamental and technical one that requires scientific skills capable of giving birth to thorough planning, organising, directing and controlling available resources for maximum impact,” he said.

    While appealing to the people to continue pay rates and levies, Mafe warned those who collaborate with outsiders to defraud the council to desist.

    “Henceforth, anyone caught in this dastard act will face the full wrath of the law,” he said.

  • Ogun, Lagos meet on border dispute

    The governments of Ogun and Lagos states have met at Ode-Omi, Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State, to resolve boundary issues.

    Ogun State Commissioner for Rural Development Falilu Sabitu and his Lagos State counterpart, Mr. Colenius Ojelabi, agreed to resolve the disputes amicably.

    Sabitu said as a prelude to the final resolution of the dispute being handled by the National Federal Boundary Commission, they agreed that the Lorunkan axis should be built by the Ogun State government, while the Lekki axis should be handled by the Lagos State government.

    He said: “Our plan is to open up the Lorunkan-Lekki Road, so that the people can have access to social amenities like other communities. I assure you that our portion of the road will be completed soon.”

    De-Omi elders and youths were at the meeting.

    The Lenuwa of Ode-Omi, Oba Adenuga Okunniyi, said the community had been abandoned by past administrations and thanked the Governor Ibikunle Amosun administration for taking steps to develop it.

  • NLC urges Uduaghan to resolve dispute with teachers

    NLC urges Uduaghan to resolve dispute with teachers

    The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Delta State chapter, has intervened in the dispute between the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Delta State Government.

    The NUT has been on strike for four days over the non-implementation of the 27.5 per cent Teachers’ Peculiar Allowance (TPA).

    NLC urged Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to intervene in the dispute between the NUT and the state Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education.

    In a letter to the governor by its Chairman, Comrade Williams Akporeha, NLC said: “The issues at stake have lingered on for so long and deserve your immediate intervention to ensure continued peaceful industrial climate in the state.”

    Public schools were scheduled to resume for a new academic session last Monday, but they could not owing to the NUT strike.

    Commissioner for Education Prof. Patrick Muoboghare said the government has not implemented the TPA because the ministry has not completed the verification of teachers.