The Osun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Barr. Dosu Babatunde has promised that the recommendations of the Hon. Ropo Oyewole led six member panel of inquiry looking into the remote and immediate causes of the violent protestations that greeted the announcement of an Oba for Ido Ajegunle, a suburb farming community of Esa Oke on February 3, ‘would be looked into and implemented by the State Government’.
The Commissioner assured the warring parties that the State Government would be fair to all in resolving the dispute.
The Commissioner stated this while receiving the report of the six man panel of inquiry set up by the Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke to look into the crisis which broke out over the stool of Olojudo of Ido Ajegunle in Obokun Local Government area between the people of Esa Oke and the farm settlers in Ido Ajegunle.
The Commissioner thanked the members of the panel for painstaking collation of all evidences from both sides and submitting their reports in a record time. The panel was inaugurated on March 4 and started sitting immediately calling for memorandums from all parties in the dispute. It also invited six traditional rulers from the Ijesa North Traditional Council to submit a memorandum which they did.
Hon Oyewole, the Special Adviser to Mr. Governor on Legislative Matters, who was also the chairman of the panel, led other five members of the committee to submit the report to the State Government in Osogbo on Tuesday.
www.esaoketodayonline.com can recalled that Governor Ademola Adeleke visited both Ido Ajegunle and Esa Oke in Obokun Local Government a day after the protests.
He had promised the Esa Oke people when he addressed them inside the Town Hall that he would set up a panel of inquiry which would look into the ‘immediate and remote causes’ of the crisis which greeted the State Executive Council’s approval of the appointment of one Oluwatimileyin Oluyemi Ajayi from Ilesha as Olojudo of Ido Ajegunle in Obokun Local Government.
During the submission of the report, Hon. Oyewole thanked the Governor for the privilege him and his team, particularly for asking him to lead the team as the chairman of the panel.
He also thanked other members of the panel for their dedication and love to serve the State.
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