Ekiti
State Commissioner for Local Government, Community Development and
Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Kolade Kolapo, has listed the settlement of
long-standing chieftaincy disputes by the Governor Ayo Fayose-led
government as one of the ingredients of peace in the state in the last
one year.
Mr Kolapo said the ministry had in the last one year settled chieftaincy matters in some communities as well as boundary disputes to ensure peace in the state.
While explaining that it was not acceptable to Governor Fayose for any community to be without a ruler, Kolade said the administration had peacefully resolved ascendancy tussles in nine communities which had been without monarchs owing to interests from certain quarters.
According to him, while the Fayose administration had installed monarchs in six communities, the remaining three traditional rulers would be presented with their staff of office within one week.
Kolade, however, lamented that some activities of the ministry, particularly in the area of running local governments, were being hampered by lack of adequate fund occasioned by the drop in revenue accruing to the state from the Federation Account.
To ensure solution, the commissioner said the ministry had resuscitated the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) Forum in the local governments in order to improve IGR in the councils.
Kolapo, who spoke in Ado Ekiti at a press briefing on the activities of his ministry in the last one year, described allegations that card-carrying politicians were on the Ekiti Electoral Commission (EKSIEC) as untrue.
He said an impartial and unbiased EKSIEC as well as other arrangements had been put in place to ensure a free, fair and acceptable local government election on December 19, describing the state as “a clear break from the present caretaker committee arrangement which has been in place since 2010.”
Mr Kolapo said the ministry had in the last one year settled chieftaincy matters in some communities as well as boundary disputes to ensure peace in the state.
While explaining that it was not acceptable to Governor Fayose for any community to be without a ruler, Kolade said the administration had peacefully resolved ascendancy tussles in nine communities which had been without monarchs owing to interests from certain quarters.
According to him, while the Fayose administration had installed monarchs in six communities, the remaining three traditional rulers would be presented with their staff of office within one week.
Kolade, however, lamented that some activities of the ministry, particularly in the area of running local governments, were being hampered by lack of adequate fund occasioned by the drop in revenue accruing to the state from the Federation Account.
To ensure solution, the commissioner said the ministry had resuscitated the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) Forum in the local governments in order to improve IGR in the councils.
Kolapo, who spoke in Ado Ekiti at a press briefing on the activities of his ministry in the last one year, described allegations that card-carrying politicians were on the Ekiti Electoral Commission (EKSIEC) as untrue.
He said an impartial and unbiased EKSIEC as well as other arrangements had been put in place to ensure a free, fair and acceptable local government election on December 19, describing the state as “a clear break from the present caretaker committee arrangement which has been in place since 2010.”
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