ALAAFIN OYO COMMENDS LAGOS LAWMAKERS ON USE OF YO

Date: 2009-04-23

            The Lagos Lawmakers have been commended for choosing Yoruba as additional Language in the conduct of Legislative business.

             In a letter communicated to the House and read at the plenary session by the Clerk of the House, Mr. Adewale Taiwo Olatunji, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi said he read the House resolution in one of the daily newspapers.

             Oba Adeyemi commended the lawmakers for the step taken explaining that it is time people started appreciating the language as well as the culture and urged them to always carry the Yoruba banner.

             The monarch said any nation that fails to appreciate its traditions would go into extinction, praying that the Yoruba nation through the bold step taken by the House would never perish.

             He thereafter urged them to extend the gesture to their families, noting that anybody that understands his or her native language would be able to speak English language better.

             With this gesture, according to him, the State Assembly has led a good example that should be extended to the National Assembly setting someday aside for the native languages.

             In another development, the House Committee on Chieftaincy and Boundary Adjustment Matters has been mandated by the House to look into the Chieftaincy tussle that is rocking Ladugboye Village in Ikorodu Local Government Area of the State.

             The Committee was mandated sequel to the issue raised under Matters of Urgent Public Importance by Hon. Sanai Agunbiade who drew members’ attention to the crisis.

             Hon. Agunbiade said the crisis began when Alajede of Ijede, Oba Ademola Oresanya and Ayangbure of Ikorodu, Oba Salau Oguntade installed two Baales respectively for the same village.

             He said the village lies within Ikorodu Constituency I which the member represents, adding that residents of the village are not living in peace due to some skirmishes that occurred over the issue. 

He thereafter urged his colleagues to wade into the matter so that the crisis does not linger on by carrying out an investigation with a view to determining the domain the village falls and authority that has the right to install the Baale in accordance with the Chieftancy Law of the Land.

            They said every settlement has historical antecedents and traditions, explaining that Chieftaincy is installed according to settlement by the progenitors and the boundary.

             The Committee is expected to report back to the Committee of the Whole in two weeks.

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