RESIDENTS of Aramoko-Ekiti in Ekiti West Local Government
Area of Ekiti State at the weekend protested the spate of mysterious
killings and deaths in the town.
The people, who came out in large numbers, went to the palace of the traditional ruler of the town, Alara of Aramoko, Oba Adegoke Adeyemi, demanding that drastic steps be taken to check incessant killings in the community.
Leading the group of protesters, Prince Remi Adedayo told traditional chiefs, who were at the palace during the protest, that the rate of mysterious killings in the community as well as ghastly motor accidents was unacceptable.
He listed the cases of a beheaded woman and the recent killing of a farmer on his farm by yet-to-be identified assailants as alien to the community.
Adedayo said that the corpse of the beheaded Urhobo woman from Delta State was in a position in the morgue that was traditionally wrong and which could be the reason for the unprecedented road accidents in the community which have claimed so many lives.
The protesters, who included aged women, men and youths, carried various placards with inscriptions expressing their grievances about how former Governor Segun Oni-led administration flouted court order that stated that the status quo be maintained in the obaship tussle that rocked the town before the selection of Oba Adeyemi.
Adedayo, however, stated that they had not come to foment trouble at the palace but rather to express their grievances about “sudden, untimely and disgraceful deaths which are now rampant in Aramoko”
High Chief S.I. Oyewole, the Okunato of Aramoko, who attended to the protesters, implored them that they should not take the law into their hands, urging them to wait for the court judgment on the obaship tussle since it was before the court of law.
Commenting on the incessant motor accidents in the town, High Chief Okunato assured that the traditional council of the town would look into the development to prevent further recurrence.
Appreciating the chief, the protesters left and later dispersed to their various homes and business points, but no one was arrested by the police who were on hand to prevent the peaceful protest from being hijacked by hoodlums.
Meanwhile, when the case of the obaship tussle came up in Ado-Ekiti High Court on Thursday, the court could not begin the hearing because Chief Makanjuola Esan (SAN), the counsel to Prince Adeyemi (the first respondent), challenged the jurisdiction of the court to hear the case, while Deacon Dele Adesina (SAN), the counsel to the applicant, Prince Olusegun Aderemi, also filed an application to join Ekiti West Local Government as one of the respondents in the matter.
Justice Cornellius Akintayo, however, suggested that a date be fixed when he wouldn’t be attending to any other case so that the issue on whether the court has the jurisdiction to hear the matter or not could be trashed by listening to the written applications of both lawyers.
Adesina said the former counsel handling the case failed to put the local council on notice about its involvement in the matter as a respondent.
He assured that his application to join the council in the matter would be on by November 14, 2012 , the day the court adjourned the matter to.
The people, who came out in large numbers, went to the palace of the traditional ruler of the town, Alara of Aramoko, Oba Adegoke Adeyemi, demanding that drastic steps be taken to check incessant killings in the community.
Leading the group of protesters, Prince Remi Adedayo told traditional chiefs, who were at the palace during the protest, that the rate of mysterious killings in the community as well as ghastly motor accidents was unacceptable.
He listed the cases of a beheaded woman and the recent killing of a farmer on his farm by yet-to-be identified assailants as alien to the community.
Adedayo said that the corpse of the beheaded Urhobo woman from Delta State was in a position in the morgue that was traditionally wrong and which could be the reason for the unprecedented road accidents in the community which have claimed so many lives.
The protesters, who included aged women, men and youths, carried various placards with inscriptions expressing their grievances about how former Governor Segun Oni-led administration flouted court order that stated that the status quo be maintained in the obaship tussle that rocked the town before the selection of Oba Adeyemi.
Adedayo, however, stated that they had not come to foment trouble at the palace but rather to express their grievances about “sudden, untimely and disgraceful deaths which are now rampant in Aramoko”
High Chief S.I. Oyewole, the Okunato of Aramoko, who attended to the protesters, implored them that they should not take the law into their hands, urging them to wait for the court judgment on the obaship tussle since it was before the court of law.
Commenting on the incessant motor accidents in the town, High Chief Okunato assured that the traditional council of the town would look into the development to prevent further recurrence.
Appreciating the chief, the protesters left and later dispersed to their various homes and business points, but no one was arrested by the police who were on hand to prevent the peaceful protest from being hijacked by hoodlums.
Meanwhile, when the case of the obaship tussle came up in Ado-Ekiti High Court on Thursday, the court could not begin the hearing because Chief Makanjuola Esan (SAN), the counsel to Prince Adeyemi (the first respondent), challenged the jurisdiction of the court to hear the case, while Deacon Dele Adesina (SAN), the counsel to the applicant, Prince Olusegun Aderemi, also filed an application to join Ekiti West Local Government as one of the respondents in the matter.
Justice Cornellius Akintayo, however, suggested that a date be fixed when he wouldn’t be attending to any other case so that the issue on whether the court has the jurisdiction to hear the matter or not could be trashed by listening to the written applications of both lawyers.
Adesina said the former counsel handling the case failed to put the local council on notice about its involvement in the matter as a respondent.
He assured that his application to join the council in the matter would be on by November 14, 2012 , the day the court adjourned the matter to.
The Nigerian Compass
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