Edo Ijaw Blast Gov. Monday Okpebholo, Allege Systematic Marginalisation of Ijaw, Esan and Igbanke Traditional Institutions, Call for Legal Challenge to Chieftaincy Law
Edo Ijaw Blast Gov. Monday Okpebholo, Allege Systematic Marginalisation of Ijaw, Esan and Igbanke Traditional Institutions, Call for Legal Challenge to Chieftaincy Law, By EgbemaVoice News Niger Delta youth leader, Comrade Mingo Friday Sayami Ogumaka, has called on the Ijaw people of Edo State, alongside the Esan, Igbanke and other ethnic nationalities, to seek judicial interpretation of the Traditional Rulers and Chiefs Edict of Bendel State, 1979, as applicable in Edo State. Ogumaka argued that the implementation of traditional institution policies in Edo State has, over the years, generated controversy regarding the recognition, powers and representation of traditional rulers from different ethnic nationalities. Before the establishment of British colonial rule, the territory now known as Nigeria consisted of numerous independent ethnic nationalities, each with distinct languages, customs, traditions and well-established systems of governance. Eve...
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