ONDO TO COMMENCE PUBLIC HEARING ON CHIEFTAINCY DECLARATION AMENDMENT MONDAY
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ONDO TO COMMENCE PUBLIC HEARING ON CHIEFTAINCY DECLARATION AMENDMENT MONDAY
…As government receives 50 proposals, 70 petitions from communities seeking review
The Ondo State government has unfolded a plan to amend the existing chieftaincy declaration to check the incessant crisis over the selection and installation of monarchs in the state.
The Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Amidu Takuro, who disclosed this on Thursday, said the ministry has received 50 proposals and 70 petitions from communities seeking the review of the existing chieftaincy declaration.
Takuro said the government would begin public hearings on Monday to listen to the agitation of those seeking the review of the existing chieftaincy declaration.
He, however, said only communities with monarchs would be allowed to amend their chieftaincy declaration.
According to him, the communities should determine the number of kingmakers, ruling houses, and regencies in case of the death of a monarch in the reviewed chieftaincy declaration.
Takuro said the chieftaincy declaration has to do with the law of each community that has approved stools by the government of the state.
His words “It is expected that the people of the community led by the traditional ruler will bring his people together and other stakeholders that will determine their successors arrangements and kingmakers.
“As a ministry, we must do everything humanly possible to limit the level of numbers of litigations on chieftaincy matters in the state. In the past, we discovered that most of the declarations were being made in secrecy, and we don’t want that to continue. We want it in a way that every citizen of the community will have knowledge of what happens as regards their chieftaincy declaration.
“So to us, we set up a committee that has been approved by the Governor that will help us as much as we can for us to have a perfect chieftaincy declaration in all the stools of the Ondo State.
“We want to assure the good people of Ondo State that the committee would do justice to all their requests, and we have received some petitions against some of the proposed drafts by some of the traditional rulers, and all these things will be looked into during the sitting of this committee.
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