By Francis Ezediuno The Alawo of Awo community in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State, Taiwo Abdulrasaq Adegboye has been s...
By Francis Ezediuno
The Alawo of Awo community in Egbedore Local Government Area
of Osun State, Taiwo Abdulrasaq Adegboye has been sacked by the Court of Appeal
sitting in Akure.
According to records from the Court of Appeal, in case
number: CA/AK/58/2021, the court presided over by Honourable Justice Lokulo
Sodipo, in the lead judgment read by Honourable Justice Abiru, set aside the
appointment of Taiwo Adegboye as the Alawo.
It ruled that henceforth, he should not be given due
recognition as monarch by any authority in and outside the State.
It also ruled that Taiwo Adegboye should stop parading
himself as a monarch and restrained him from parading himself or wearing any
insignia of office as Alawo of Awo.
The Court while expressing disappointment in the Office of
the Osun State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice for misleading the
Osun State Government in approving the appointment and installation of Taiwo
Adegboye as new Alawo, declared that the action of the State Government was in
contempt of the Court
Adegboye, who is a politician and member of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) was before his installation as Alawo of Awo, the
immediate past Leader of the Legislative Arm of Egbedore Local Government Area.
His appointment as the traditional ruler of Awo by the Osun
State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola on September 13, 2021, was allegedly due to
his active membership of the State chapter of the APC.
Also, the now removed monarch allegedly forged his selection
documents, flagrantly disobeyed court orders and used the outdated 1957 instead
of the subsisting registered 1979 Alawo of Awo Chieftaincy Declaration.
His appointment has been alleged to be fraught with
fraudulent processes which made some aggrieved indigenes of the town to resort
to legal redress in the court.
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