The traditional chief in Imesi Ekiti, in Gbonyin LGA of Ekiti state, Chief Gabriel Bodunde has been suspended from office.
The state’s deputy governor, Chief (Mrs) Monisade Afuye, who announced the suspension on Thursday while presiding over a petition forwarded to her office by Onimesi-in-Council.
She stated that the Chief was suspended over alleged disrespect, high-handedness and insubordination to the town’s monarch, Oba Olatunji Olatunde.
The Chief was also accused of fueling communal crises in the town through unlawful and arbitrary arrest of subjects over trumped-up and frivolous charges, thereby igniting unnecessary tension.
The suspended Chief was absent at the hearing of the petition and did not send any representation.
In his comments, Oba Olatunji Olatunde expressed regret that several entreaties made to seek peace with Chief Bodunde were rebuffed.
He described the chief’s disobedience to government’s invitation was a height of arrogance.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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