Traditionalists in Ogun Train have vowed to say the controversial chiefs laws in court docket, pronouncing Obas must always be buried by ragged worshippers.
DAILY POST stories that Governor Dapo Abiodun had on Monday signed the ‘Obas, Chiefs, Council of Obas and Weak Council laws of Ogun Train, Bill 2021’ into laws on the realm of the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona.
The laws, which became once kicked against by ragged worshippers, has stopped the imposition of rituals at some stage within the installation and burial of a monarch.
It empowers the family of a deceased Oba to utilize how he would be buried in maintaining with his faith.
As gathered, the unique laws also permits a newly elected Oba to utilize whether or no longer or no longer he would fight by the odd seclusion rites, acknowledged as Ipebi in Yoruba land.
Promoters of the unique laws imagine bid it would curb fetish practices within the strategy of placing in and burying ragged rulers within the teach.
Nonetheless, the Oluwo of Iperu and Vice Chairman of Osugbo Remo Parapo, Ifasola Opeodu, has threatened to say the laws earlier than a decent court docket, pronouncing “a dead man has no appropriate beneath the laws.”
Opeodu maintained that no-one is compelled to turn out to be an Oba, stressing that “in no arrangement can need to either Christians or Muslims bury an Oba.”
His phrases: “We’re going to name a assembly, we’re demanding the implementation in court docket. We’re going to quiz the court docket to restrict them from enforcing the laws and the court docket will utilize.
“The first ground is that a dead man has no appropriate beneath the laws. Anybody that is dead has misplaced your entire rights that he has.
“The exact of Obas that they’re claiming that we’re violating is no longer appropriate as a result of a dead man has no appropriate yet again beneath the laws.
“Secondly, what we’re pronouncing is that Obaship institution will is no longer obligatory, we’re no longer forcing someone to come yet again there, we’re no longer pronouncing they need to not ever bury Obas, but what we’re opposing, for those that be aware, our argument is that how can they now bid Christians and Muslims can need to come and be burying Obas, ragged heads? If there is anything else that they don’t desire at some stage in their burials, they want to bid, but traditionalists must always be the ones to bury Obas, no longer Christians.
“Why don’t they bid that Christians or Muslims must always be the ones to set up the monarchs? They’re no longer pronouncing this. The governor even said with out prejudice to the rights of traditionalists beneath ancient laws. All these items are there.
“We’re no longer pronouncing that they need to not ever bury Obas, but it’ll no longer be Christians or Muslims that will bury the Obas.”
