The Olu of Owode in Obafemi/Owode Native Authorities of Ogun State, Oba Kolawole Sowemimo, on Saturday, confirmed his suspension for 2 months with out salaries by the Egba Conventional Council over alleged abuse of naira notes.
Talking with our correspondent, Sowemimo mentioned the suspension was introduced throughout the conventional rulers assembly on Friday.
“They mentioned the suspension was because of the approach I spent cash on one musician.
“And after I was requested if I had something to say, I stood up and apologised for no matter I had achieved incorrect and the suspension which was earlier introduced to be for 3 months with out salaries was decreased to 2 months.
“I completely settle for the decision of the council as a result of it’s the individual that we love that we chastise, so I’m good with the choice,” he mentioned.
A viral video in early January confirmed the royal father adorning a well-liked Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde, with knitted new notes of N1,000 which was used as a garland to embellish the musician.
The council had moved towards Sowemimo for publicly degrading Nigerian foreign money, an offence that contravenes the legislation of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria.
He was reportedly suspended on Friday on the Egba Conventional Council February statutory assembly which was chaired by the Alake and paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo.
The assembly in a joint decision adopted the suspension of the monarch following the advice of its Ethics Committee which declared that throughout the interval of his (Sowemimo) suspension, he shouldn’t parade himself as a conventional ruler.
It was additional gathered that the decision emphasised that Sowemimo shouldn’t be invited or seen at any authorities or public perform as a conventional ruler, and for 3 months shouldn’t obtain any funds
The Chairman of a three-member Ethics Committee of the Egba Conventional Council, Oba Saka Matemilola, who learn the report of the committee, mentioned that the committee got here to its choice after analyzing the viral video during which Sowemimo breached the ethics of a Yoruba conventional establishment by defacing Nigeria’s foreign money.
The committee chairman, who’s the Olowu of Owu, mentioned findings revealed that the embattled conventional ruler was seen holding strewn naira as a bead and hanging onto the neck of a musician in public.
The chairman added that lots of public condemnation of the act inundated the council with derisive feedback on the normal establishment, stressing that the mentioned Oba’s motion is in contradiction of Part 21(1) of Central Financial institution Act, 2007.
The Nationwide Orientation Company had additionally final month issued a strict warning to the embattled conventional ruler for abusing the naira notes throughout his thirteenth anniversary of ascension to the royal stool.
Reacting to the video in a press release signed and directed to the monarch, Director Normal, NOA, Lanre Issa-Onilu, mentioned the show was an abuse of the nationwide foreign money that draws imprisonment, fines, or each.
