of the sacred traditional institution' for the police to invite a
monarch to their station to make a statement.
Oba Adeyemi instead posited that the police should go to the palace of
the monarch to make enquiries.
He said this in reaction to the invitation of Sabiganna of Iganna, Oba
Soliu Oyemonla Azeez, by the police on the invasion of the farmlands
of his subjects by some Fulani herdsmen while speaking at the 3rd year
coronation anniversary of Sabiganna of Iganna, regarding the action as
ridiculous and insulting to the traditional institution of obaship.
According to Oba Adeyemi, "A situation where traditional rulers were
being called upon to come to police station to make statements is
ridiculous."
He said a police man should go to the Oba's palace to make enquiries
from him and not the other way round. "This kind of nonsense must
stop", he warned.
The traditional ruler also advised the Oyo State Government to
encourage the establishment of a bank for the people of Iganna in the
Iwajowa Local Government Area of Oke Ogun in Oyo State.
He stated that it was risky for the people living in the area to
travel about 25 kilometres to another town before they could deposit
or withdraw money.
Alaafin said the situation was a major challenge to the Deputy
Governor, Chief Moses Alake Adeyemo, a retired bank official.
While speaking, Chief Adeyemo stressed further that the call for the
establishment of the bank was necessary to save the residents from
armed robbery attacks.
He added that absence of a single bank in the whole of Iganna was an
indication that the town was lagging behind in the area of social and
infrastructural development.
Oba Adeyemi also tasked the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN
administration to relocate the local government headquarters from
Iwere-Ile back to Iganna where it was initially located.