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  • NGO gives out cars at promotion

    A multi-level marketing company, Touching Lives International (TLI), which was inaugurated this year in Lagos, has begun to touch the lives of the less-privileged persons in a positive manner.

    The organisation is a platform through which public-spirited individuals offer humanitarian services to the less-privileged. A token of members’ registration fees is used to cater for the needs of the poor.

    The company, which was founded in the Philippines and was inaugurated in Nigeria on July 8 this year, operates as a non-governmental organisation (NGO).

    Recently, two star prize winners emerged after attaining a certain promotional level. They received SUV cars each as their prizes. They also received cheque of three thousand dollars each.

    Narrating how they achieved the feat with N7, 000, Eleogo Adejoh said she qualified for the car eight days after enrollment. She was able to meet her target with the help of her team and down lines.

    The down lines are those who were introduced to the marketing plan. A total of 115 items were given them, such as washing machines, television sets, laptops, iPad and generating sets.

    Miss Adejoh added that the one- off token of N7, 000 donated to charity fetched her car and an opportunity to nominate and empower two widows each, with one thousand dollars in Naira equivalent. If she gets to the next stage, she will nominate two children for scholarships which TLI will shoulder the responsibility on her behalf.

    Another beneficiary, Mrs. Agatha Ekpo, a graduate of Accountancy, who resigned from her banking profession to take up career with TLI full time, recalled how she began multi-level marketing in 2009. She also qualified for the SUV seven days after the product was launched.

    She said: “I encourage Nigerians to embrace multi-level marketing, because it is the fastest way to break out of poverty.”

    Other programmes by the company include free skill acquisition to learn soap and bead making for its members.

    Country Manager of TLI, Mr. Moses Durolola said the company achieved the great number of recipients due to its compensation plan that can’t be compared to any other in the industry.

    “We have a user-friendly matrix that allows members to realise their dreams; because it is a life that is empowered that can touch the lives of the less-privileged. Our prices are competitive because as they bring more members, they are making more money,” he said.

    He revealed that at the end of this month, another set of awards would come up, where beneficiaries will triple the number of July recipients.

  • Promotion for LASU dons

    The Governing Council of Lagos State University at its 111st statutory meeting on May 31 2016, elevated Rotimi Williams Olatunji to the status of professor of Mass Communication (Advertising).

    Olatunji, whose promotion was back dated to last October 1, became the third professor of Communication Studies in LASU School of Communication.

    Also, Dr. Yinka Alawode has been elevated from Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor, Mass Communication.

    Olatunji, while thanking God for the elevation, appreciated his mentors and professors from whom he said he drew inspiration.

  • How PSC was sidelined in DIGs, AIGs promotion

    Details emerged in Abuja yesterday about how Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari and Acting Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris, exchanged correspondences which led to what sources termed the ‘illegal sacking and appointments of Deputy Inspectors General (DIGs) and Assistant Inspectors General (AIGs)”

    The Nation exclusively reported on Wednesday the disquiet over errors committed by the Police Service Commission (PSC) in the retirement of 21 AIGs ‘because they are senior to the IGP” and the appointment of seven others as DIGs.

    However, sources told our correspondent that although Chairman of PSC Mike Okiro, a retired IG,  authorised the issuance of the statement announcing the retirements and appointments, he did so after it became obvious that there was nothing the commission could do about the matter because of the direct interference by The Presidency through Kyari.

    According to a source conversant with the workings of the commission, the Acting IGP “hurriedly compiled the names of AIGs he did not want to see in the Police any longer to the President, in which he surreptitiously claimed that all those on the list were his seniors. By the action, the President/ C-in-C was deceived to grant the approval in error.”

    The source confirmed that AIG Shuaibu Gambo was not retired although he was senior to the Acting IGP while AIG Olufemi  Ogunbayode , who was promoted to AIG only two weeks back, was retired “because he is senior to the IG” .

    The source added: “The IGP also forwarded a list of officers to be promoted to DIGs. In the list, some junior CPs were picked and recommended for promotion to DIG over and above some senior CPs and AIGs who are from same state/zone. Despite this obvious abnormally, it was forwarded to the President and accordingly approved.”

    Sources said on receiving the approved list from the Presidency, commissioners at the PSC kicked against it, insisting that it was outside the purview of the Acting IGP to recommend names of officers to be retired or promoted as that remains a key responsibility of the PSC.

    They also argued, among others, that: “It is not the constitutional responsibility of the IGP to forward names of officers to the President for promotion and/or retirement nor was it the due process as carried by the Acting IGP; that the President could not have been in a position to know of the lop-sidedness deliberately designed and orchestrated error in the presentation by the Acting IGP; and that the promotions to DIG and retirement of AIGs were fraught with deliberate manipulations by the Acting IGP.”

    Sources said Okiro overruled the commissioners “on the grounds that the President’s directive was final and any aggrieved officer should complain later”.

    The source said the appointment of a junior AIG as the Acting IGP has left the hierarchy of the Police in comatose and that “to leave this to linger on a day longer will not be good for the Police and the country, considering the security challenges the country is now facing.”

    One of the sources insisted that the correspondences and documentation for the promotions and retirement that were effected were “largely done between the Acting AIG and the Chief of Staff to the President without recourse to the PSC as constitutionally provided.

    “The list was merely presented to the President for approval. It was obvious that the President did not know the true position on the ground as it were.”

  • Disquiet in the police over ‘irregular’ promotion

    Disquiet in the police over ‘irregular’ promotion

    Some policemen have expressed displeasure over the promotion of 14 officers to Deputy Commissioners of Police (ACP).

    The Police Service Commission (PSC) at the weekend announced the promotion of the officers from Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACP) to DCP.

    Those promoted were Nkechi Enehikuere; Juliana Abah; Abdulkadir Jimoh; Garba Baba; Joseph Egbunike; Jonathan Towuru; Adeleke Bode and Muri Musa.

    Others include Magu Mustafa; Lawal Tanko; Celestine Eluemelu; Edward Ajogun; Sylvester Alabi and David Igbodo.

    The development has caused feelings of injustice as senior officers who were left out have accused the police of not following due process.

    According to the aggrieved officers, the standard practice of seniority was not followed.

    They alleged that with exceptions to Enehikuere, Abah, Jimoh, Baba and Egbunike, the PSC left out several senior officers who have attended and passed their Senior Staff course.

    The aggrieved officers alleged that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase recommended his protégés for promotion without recourse to seniority.

    One of the officers who pleaded anonymity said: “On the ACP seniority list, the first four names are Enehikuere (first), Abah (second), Jimoh (third), Baba (fourth) and Egbunike (24th).
    “Towuru 52, Bode 75, Musa 91, Magu 99, Tanko 121, Eluemelu 134, Ajogun 214, Alabi 217 and Igbodo 220. Where is justice?  How can this be?

    “Only five of the 30 most senior ACPs that have gone on course were promoted.  This is wicked. Most of them bribed their way at the PSC. Some of the officials at the commission vehemently opposed, but were overruled by the powers that be.

    “Because the IGP is going out, he has jumped gun in promoting and compensated his loyalists. This is very bad,” said one of the officers.

  • Alabi dedicates promotion to ancestors

    With the understanding that those who turn their backs on their ancestors cannot look forward to posterity, Oloye Lekan Alabi has always had high regards for his ancestors. He was recently promoted to the lofty position of the Agba-Akin Olubadan of Ibadanland by the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji, and he thought it fit to dedicate his promotion to his four ancestors who were high chiefs in Ibadanland in the 19th and 20th centuries.

    It will be recalled that Oba Adetunji on Friday, May 13 this year promoted Oloye Alabi, a senior traditional chief of the town, from Aare Alaasa Olubadan to Agba-Akin Olubadan. A journalist, author and PR consultant, Alabi was press secretary to four former governors (one civilian and three military) of old Oyo State (present Oyo and Osun States) between 1983 and 1989, and four-time Coordinator of Sketch Press Limited, Ibadan.

    While some people have raised eyebrows at his decision to honour his ancestors, Oloye Alabi justified his action by explaining that his new position as Agba-Akin Olubadan is at par with the position of his great grandfather, Sanni Ajengbe IV, the Agba-Akin Balogun of Ibadan, during the reign of Olubadan Shitu Omo Aare Latoosa (1914). Before Ajengbe IV were Oyinlola Ajengbe III, the Ekerin Balogun of Ibadan, during the reign of Olubadan Akintayo Elempe (1910), Suberu Ajengbe II, the Ekerin Balogun during the reign of Olubadan Fijabi I (1890) and the progenitor of the family, Molaja Ajengbe I, Ekerin Balogun of Ibadan, who died in the Kiriji War at Imesi-Ile.

    Ajengbe 1 was a signatory to the MoUs between Ibadan and the British colonial government in the 19th Century. Oloye Alabi’s late uncle, High Chief Samuel Layiwola Durosaro, a lawyer, also reached the Otun Olubadan rung of the Ibadan traditional chieftaincy ladder.

  • ‎PSC promotes 2,058 senior officers

    ‎PSC promotes 2,058 senior officers

    The Police Service Commission has approved the promotion of 2,058 senior Police Officers to their next rank.

    The Commission explained that the promotion was in line with its resolve to ensure prompt promotion of deserving Police officers.

    Details of the promotion is contained in a statement in Abuja Friday by the Head of Press and Public Relations Unit of the Commission, Ikechukwu Ani.

    According to the statement: “One Commissioner of Police, CP Kaumi Ahmadu (CP Medical) was promoted to the next rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), while 99 Superintendents (SP) of Police including SP Babagana Bukar were elevated to the rank of Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).

    “The Commission also approved the promotion of 754 Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSP) to the rank of Superintendent of Police (SP).

    The statement continues: “The promoted DSPs include DSP Shehu Usman and 1203 Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASPs) were also promoted to the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police while one Inspector was elevated to the next rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police.

    The Chairman of the Commission, Mike Okiro,  noted that the promotions were based on merit, seniority and availability of vacancies.

    He emphasised the Commissions commitment to ensure that deserving Police Officers are promoted as at when due to serve as motivation to the Officers.

    Okiro while charging the promoted Officers to continue to give their best in the service of the nation reminded them that the security of lives and property of every Nigerian and others living in Nigeria is not negotiable.

    The Commission also stated that the list of the newly promoted officers has been conveyed to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase for implementation.

     

  • Senate seeks promotion of made in Nigeria goods

    The Senate yesterday asked the Federal Government to urgently initiate and implement the First Option Policy on purchase of locally manufactured products for government and its agencies..

    The lawmakers said they would amend the Procurement Act to ensure that government agencies and publickly  funded institutions  adopt the made-in-Nigeria goods First Option Policy.

    The action followed a motion by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South) on the need to patronise made-in-Nigeria goods in Nigeria.”

    First Option Policy on purchase of locally made goods would compel Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government to place priority on purchase of locally made products.

    Senate Abaribe, in his lead debate, expressed concern that investment in real sector had given way to trading in foreign and imported goods resulting in negative balance of trade, close down of textile companies, wood processing factories among others.

    The Abia State born lawmaker recalled that Nigeria’s economy was dependent on made in Nigeria exports, in the 60s and early 70s.

    He noted that in 60s and 70s, industries were located in the rural areas, while made-in- Nigeria products were popular in parts of the country and many other African countries.

    He said, “I recall that as at 1990, Nigeria had over 170 developed textile industries employing between 2000 and 10,000 workers each.

    “Today, only 12 are still functioning, the resultant loss of opportunities and employments is anyone’s guess.

    “The current depletion in forex earnings and forex available is a symptomatic effect of an import dependent economy, which is riddled with unemployment, negative balance of trade and low capital formation.”

    Abaribe noted that governments in other countries have developed and adopted varying measures of First Option Policy for their locally manufactured goods in their various countries.

    He listed countries like the United States, Chinese, and India, as some of the countries that made it mandatory for government agencies to source for locally manufactured goods before patronising goods from other countries.

    The lawmaker expressed optimism that if the present administration put measures in place to ensure obligatory official patronage of locally made products for all agencies of government, it would create jobs for the teeming population.

    Most Senators who contributed supported the motion and insisted that urgent action should taken by all arms of government to encourage the growth of made in Nigeria goods.

    Senator Dino Melaye in his contribution however personalized the issue.

    He said, “I want to celebrate the Made in Nigeria Senator for bringing this motion. In considering the made in Nigeria goods, we must look at enabling factors that will necessitate the made in Nigeria goods.

    “It’s beyond having one made in Nigeria attire and you have over 70 Tom Ford and Loubitins in your wardrobe.

    “We must also begin to look at our legislation, we will begin to talk about made-in-Nigeria goods.

    “We will also move in order to encourage the made in Nigeria products to talk about Made in Nigeria women.

    “Apologies to my uncle, the Governor of Edo State, we must as a people stop paying dowries in dollars and pounds.  It is time for my colleagues here to become born again.”

    Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, commended Abaribe for his commitment for promotion of made-in-Nigeria products over the years.

  • Akwa Ibom NLC disagrees with govt on promotion without arrears

    The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Akwa Ibom State Council has cleared the air on its position on the recent approval and release of promotion of workers in the state.

    The immediate past administration  did not implement the promotions and payments due to workers before handing over.

    The promotion of 10,352 public servants, which Governor Emmanuel approved last month covering year 2011 through 2014, were released but without the accompanying payments.

    But the state NLC challenged the government to pay the accompanying promotion with the arrears. Delayed promotions, the NLC said, is usually accompanied by arrears dated- back to when such promotions were due, as regular promotion is the legitimate right of civil and public servants.

    In a statement by the NLC signed by the Chairman, Comrade Etim Ukpong, and made available to newsmen in Uyo, last week, the labour union said it has at no point negotiated or agreed with the government on promotion without arrears.

    The union expressed disappointment that the state government would unilaterally take decisions on issues concerning workers in the state without consulting with labour to take worker’s welfare into consideration.

    “The NLC, Akwa Ibom State Council hereby states categorically that at no time whatsoever did it enter into any agreement with government nor sign any memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of the state to the effect that promotions of those years should be released to workers without the corresponding arrears.

    “While the NLC, Akwa Ibom State council demands that letters of promotion to workers be accompanied with arrears of promotion as is legitimate, the NLC urges workers to disregard any insinuations to the contrary”, the statement added.

    The Labour union frowned at rumours making the rounds that it has approved the release of 2011 to 2014 promotions to Civil and Public Servants in the state without arrears, and insisted that such promotions are usually associated with arrears as workers had already worked to be so rewarded.

    The state government has released the 2011 to 2014 promotions for public servants without arrears.

    The absence of the long-awaited promotion arrears has thrown civil and public servants in the state into lamentation as they complained that such promotions were never announced without associated benefits.

  • Tragic death of policeman hours to promotion

    Tragic death of policeman hours to promotion

    His family was eagerly waiting to usher in the New Year because of the good tiding it will bring for its breadwinner. His promotion to inspector was to take effect January 1. But three hours to the New Year, Sergeant sunday Clement, 41, was knocked down by a commercial motorcyclist and he died, BISI OLADELE reports.

    All had been set for the New Year celebration. Members of Sergeant Sunday Clement’s family were in high spirits for the double joy which January 1, had in stock for them. It was to be the witness of a New Year and the day the promotion of his bread winner to inspector would have taken effect. But it was not to be.

    The late Clement, 41, was a Sergeant with the Highway Patrol in Akinyele Police Division, Ibadan the Oyo State capital. He was one of the drivers in the unit.

    His team went on duty on Ijaye/Iseyin Road on the eve of the New Year to wrap up the year when a commercial motorcyclist allegedly knocked him down while he was crossing the road. Within one-and-a-half hours of the accident, Sunday died, terminating the double joy awaiting him and his household last January 1.

    His widow, Bola, in an emotional recall of how her heartthrob died on New Year’s eve, said she was at the middle of a church service to usher in the New Year when her phone rang repeatedly. The repeated calls forced her to excuse herself from the church to return the call to her husband’s telephone line that had been calling.

    But she was greeted by a strange voice that declared: “This is not your husband. I am his boss. Your husband had an accident a while ago and we have rushed him to a private hospital in Akinyele. Please come over here.”

    She continued: “After receiving the call, I didn’t know what to do. I invited one of my friends in the church to accompany me to the hospital. On getting to the hospital, the doctor told me that he had internal bleeding; having fallen on his occiput. The injury on the occiput was deep but the doctor plastered it after applying treatment. He advised us to take him to the University College Hospital (UCH).

    “When we got to UCH, they admitted him immediately. The doctors told me that he needed oxygen. Hence, they asked me to go and look for a large amount of money. Then, I came home reluctantly, thinking of the sad incident and where to get such huge amount of money.

    “I arrived at home at 1:00 a.m. When I called again, they told me he was responding to treatment.”

    But at noon of January 1, Mrs Sunday said her pastor, accompanied by some others, visited her to break the sad news that her husband was dead. They revealed that he actually died before the break of the New Year.

    According to her, his colleagues explained to her that her husband initially declined to join them for the duty that evening but later changed his mind to perform the last duty in 2015.

    On arriving at the spot where the team operated, they recalled that Mr Sunday led the prayer for the entire team and their operation that night.

    “A few minutes later, he crossed the road to the other side to urinate when an oncoming commercial motorcyclist (popularly called okada), knocked him down. It was between 8:00 and 8:00 p.m.” she said.

    She revealed that the motorcyclist was a 17-year-old who could not offer anything. He has since been detained.

    On what the Oyo State Police Command was doing on the matter, Mrs Sunday said the command had been taking all necessary steps to give him a befitting burial and process his benefits for dying in the course of discharging his duties.

    Mrs Sunday described her husband of 13 years as a father to her, their children and his siblings.

    “I can’t forget him. He took our welfare (our children and I) very seriously. He was a father, mother-everything to me. I will miss his immense understanding, patience and care. He showed understanding very well,” she said.

    Also recalling his brother’s death, Sunday’s younger brother, Mr Godwin Namba-Clement, said it still seems like a dream.

    According to him, a friend called him on telephone from Ibadan on January 1 to inform him of his elder brother’s death which he dismissed because it sounded impossible for death to come so suddenly that way. Godwin lives with their parents in their home town, Kachia, Kaduna State.

    He said: “On New Year day, after returning from church, a friend called me from Ibadan and told me Sunday was dead. I thought it was a joke. Then, I called my brother’s wife and she confirmed it. I had to travel to Ibadan immediately. His colleagues took me to the scene of the incident. It is still unbelievable.”

    Sunday completed his promotion course in September, last year after which he was elevated to the higher rank of Police Inspector. The promotion took effect on January 1, 2016.

    Sunday is survived by wife and three children.

  • Govt rejects Ladoja’s, others’ promotion

    Govt rejects Ladoja’s, others’ promotion

    •Olubadan gets 48 hours ultimatum to reverse action

    The Oyo State Government yesterday gave a 48-hour ultimatum to the Olubadan-In-Council to reverse the elevation of Senator Rashidi Ladoja,  Senator Lekan Balogun and seven other high chiefs or face sanctions.

    The nine high chiefs were each elevated to the next rank on Friday against an order of the state government that the nine chiefs should first submit themselves to security and medical examinations before promotion as required by Chieftaincy Law.

    Their promotion was necessitated by the death of the Chief Sulaimon Omiyale, the Balogun of Ibadanland and Chief Omowale Kuye, the Otun Olubadan, in November, last year.

    The deceased were next in throne to the Olubadan stool from both lines that produce the Olubadan of Ibadan land.

    Last Friday, nine traditional chieftaincy title holders were promoted by the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1.

    They are:  High Chief Saliu A.O. Adetunji, who was promoted from Otun Balogun to Balogun of Ibadanland; High Chief Sen. Lekan Balogun, formerly the Osi Olubadan now installed as the Otun Olubadan; High Chief Akinloye Olakulehin who moved from the Osi Balogun to the Otun Balogun rank; High Chief Senator Rashidi Ladoja was promoted from  Ashipa Olubadan to Osi Olubadan and High Chief Dr Olufemi Olaifa who was also promoted from Ashipa Balogun to Osi Balogun of Ibadanland.

    Others are High Chief Sir Eddy Oyewole who was the Ekerin Olubadan now the Ashipa Olubadan of Ibadanland; High Chief Tajudeen Abimbola formerly the Ekerin Balogun now Ashipa Balogun of Ibadan; High Chief Kola Daisi  who was moved from the  Ekarun Olubadan to the Ekerin Olubadan of Ibadanland and High Chief Solomom A. Adabale, who was promoted from the  Ekarun Balogun to the Ekerin Balogun of Ibadanland.

    The government, in a statement entitled: “The Illegal Elevation of Nine High Chiefs in Ibadanland: The Position of the Oyo State Government” yesterday expressed disappointment with the January 1 elevation of the high chiefs and ordered a reversal on the grounds of violation the relevant chieftaincy laws guiding such promotions.

    The statement, signed by the Director, Chieftaincy Matters, Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Zaccheaus Jayeola, faulted the promotion which it said was done without the mandatory approval of the government.

    The government insisted that the said promotion could not have been undertaken by the Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1, whom it described as “a forthright and foremost traditional ruler with an enviable track record of achievements and a firm believer in due process as well as a respecter of the rule of law.”

    The statement read in part: “Government has observed with dismay and utter disappointment the recent ‘elevation’ of nine Ibadan High Chiefs by the Olubadan-in-Council without the mandatory approval of the Government of Oyo State.  Government, as required under the Law, stated its position on the procedures for the elevation in its Public Service Announcement of 31st December 2015 and its letter to the OLUBADAN-IN-COUNCIL. The letter was duly acknowledged by the Olubadan’s Private secretary.

    “It is to be noted for the avoidance of doubt that since the inception of the present administration, Government has resisted, as a matter of policy, any attempt to be lured  into religious, chieftaincy and labour union leadership and other contentious issues.

    “This is in order to maintain its neutrality, ensure fairness, justice and  respect for the rule of law.  Government will always uphold the sanctity of the rule of law and would neither encourage nor condone any tradition or peculiar culture of illegality, impunity, disregard and/or disrespect to constituted authority.  Instead, it has concentrated on its avowed mission on the peace, safety of lives and property, security, welfare and empowerment of the people, infrastructural development, employment generation and urban renewal, among others, to make life more abundant for the teeming populace of the State.

    “ It is in view of the foregoing that Government notes and states as follows:

    (i)     Government’s suspicion and ardent belief are that the recent purported elevation could not have received   the blessing of our highly revered father and traditional ruler, the Olubadan of Ibadanland.  He is reputed to be a forthright and foremost traditional ruler with an enviable track record of achievements and  a firm believer in due process as well as a respecter of the rule of law.

    (ii)    It is for this same reason that the Olubadan of Ibadanland expectedly wrote an earlier letter requesting the Governor’s due approval for the elevation of the nine (9) High Chiefs in accordance with the provisions of Section 14(2) of the Oyo State Chiefs Law.

    (iii)    As a firm believer in the sacredness of tradition, His Royal Majesty had earlier cautioned and warned against politicising the Olubadan chieftaincy institution.

    (iv)  Otherwise, what could have been the reason behind the hasty elevation without observing due process, which Government is duly complying with?

    (v)   While the Government does not have any objection to the proposed elevation nor its beneficiaries, it is however insisting on due process and lawful procedure which had not been followed in the past.

    (vi)    The appointment and or elevation of deserving persons into the Stool of Part II Chieftaincies can only be made on the approval of His Excellency, the Governor as prescribed by the provision of Chiefs Laws,  Cap 28 Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria 2000, whilst the Olubadan is the consenting authority.

    (vii)  On the receipt of the application for the elevation of the Chiefs, His Excellency, the Governor, applying Section 14(2) of the Chiefs Law, referred their names for the mandatory security checks by the Department of Security Services and mandated the candidates to, on their own, provide their certificates of medical status from a Government secondary health institution.

    (viii)  The status of the due process being carried out by Government was conveyed to the Olubadan via the Ibadan South East Local Government which was duly acknowledged by the Olubadan’s Private Secretary, in addition to the Government’s Public Service Announcement of Thursday, 31/12/15 relaying same.

    (ix)   To further reiterate the legal provision on the issue,

    Sections 21 and 26 of the Chiefs Laws stipulate relevant sanctions   against   whoever contravenes the provisions of the Law.

    (x)    Apparently, the actions taken on the elevation of the chiefs as widely publicized is illegal.  Moreso, when the Olubadan as the consenting authority had already commenced the due process by seeking the approval of the Governor for the appointment/elevation as prescribed by Law.

    “Consequently, Government directs that the organisers and the beneficiaries to reverse the purported elevation  WITHIN 48 HOURS OF THIS PUBLICATION, failing which appropriate sanctions will be invoked under sections 21 and 26 of the Chiefs Laws, Cap 28, Laws of Oyo State, 2000.  The case of Ashekoya  vs. Olawumi (1962) 1 All NLR 125 is instructive”

    The Olubadan had told reporters shortly after the promotion ceremony at Monatan, Oba Odulana’s palace that presentation of security and health certificate of chiefs was alien to the culture and tradition of the town. The newly installed Osi Balogun of Ibadanland, High Chief Dr Olufemi Olaifa, spoke on his behalf.

    He said the council was not aware of the letter by the state government directing that the Chiefs should submit themselves to security and health check as well as its December 31 media statement publicizing the directive.

    He said: “If you know the history of Ibadan traditional system, in the last two months we lost about two most senior high chiefs, the Balogun of Ibadanland and Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland. Once that happens, the next thing is promotion for two lines of high chiefs in Ibadan. That is why vacancies exist for the Balogun line and the Otun Balogun line.

    “Today’s promotions have to affect the four High Chiefs of the Balogun line, that is the Otun Balogun of Ibadanland who has just moved now to Balogun of Ibadanland and the Osi Olubadan who has just moved to Otun Olubadan. Also, those in line with them moved accordingly and we are nine in total from both lines.

    “There is no much problem apart from that the processes wanted to be prolonged and the Ibadan traditional council did not accept that.

    “We did not receive any letter from the government directing the Balogun and Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland and seven others to submit a medical report certifying them fit for the positions in line with extant chieftaincy laws. It has never happen before in Ibadan and it will not happen during our own reign.

    “There is no letter of such. It is only a rumour. The only letter we received from government was an acknowledgement of the Olubadan asking the governor to give his consent and endorsement to the promoted high chiefs. If you understand the system in Ibadan, the king makers are the only ones empowered by the law to promote anybody including the Olubadan of Ibadanland and that is exactly what we have done today. The governor’s consent or endorsement is just a formality.”