Don’t turn palaces into courts, detention centres – Ondo govt warns monarchs

Ondo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Olukayode Ajulo, has cautioned accepted rulers against exceeding the limits of their customary authorization by converting their palaces into makeshift courts oregon detention facilities.

Ajulo gave the informing on Wednesday in Akure during a three-day capacity-building store organised for accepted rulers by the Ondo State Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.

The store was held nether the theme, “Repositioning the Traditional Institution for Harmonious Communal Relationship, Security, Cultural Preservation and Sustainable Development.”

The Attorney General urged monarchs to workout their authorization successful accordance with the Constitution and existing laws, noting that accepted institutions run wrong a law democracy.

He explained that portion accepted rulers person important customary responsibilities, their powers are chiseled from those vested successful courts, the constabulary and different statutory agencies.

According to Ajulo, the Constitution does not recognise accepted institutions arsenic a abstracted oregon “fourth limb of government”, though it acknowledges their imaginable publication to section governance, peace-building and assemblage development.

He urged monarchs to absorption connected their roles arsenic custodians of civilization and history, symbols of assemblage identit...