Ile-Ife community seeks Osun govt’s intervention over renewed Modakeke tension

The Ile-Ife assemblage has called connected the Osun State Government to intervene successful renewed hostility betwixt Ile-Ife and Modakeke implicit the purported installation of a monarch for Okuu-Omoni, a disputed area.

The entreaty was made by the Great Ife Movement, GIM, which besides urged the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to suspend processes relating to the purported assignment of Aderoju Adewale Onisaka arsenic the Oba of Okuu-Omoni.

President of the Great Ife Movement, Femi Oyeyinka, made the telephone connected Wednesday during a property league held astatine the Oba Okunade Sijuwade Memorial Hall, Enuwa, Ile-Ife.

The conference, titled ‘Peace and Justice Must Go Pari Passu successful Ifeland’, was organised successful conjunction with Ife intellectuals and different stakeholders.

Oyeyinka alleged that the process starring to the purported assignment of Onisaka did not comply with laid-down procedures nether Ife autochthonal instrumentality and custom.

He expressed interest implicit leaflets allegedly circulated from Modakeke successful August, which purportedly claimed ancestral ownership of immoderate lands successful the area.

Speaking connected the Okuu-Omoni accepted stool, Oyeyinka alleged that the purported crowning of Onisaka archetypal took spot astatine the Civic Centre successful Moda...