Wole Ayodele in Jalingo
The Kutebs ethnic group in Taraba State has kicked in opposition to the proposed rotation of the primary class conventional stool in Takum Native Authorities Space by the state authorities.
Governor of Taraba State, Dr Agbu Kefas, had despatched an government invoice to the state Home of Meeting during which he proposed to rotate the stool which had been vacant since 1996.
However addressing a press convention shortly after submitting their memoranda on the public listening to organized by the Home of Meeting Committee on Native Authorities and Chieftaincy Affairs, the Kutebs acknowledged that the proposal was an try and disintegrate their cultural heritage.
Of their separate displays, the consultant of Likam and Akente, the 2 ruling homes in Takum, Prince Sule Yusu, and the President of Youth Wing of Kuteb Yatso, Ande Yakubu, vehemently opposed the passage of the invoice, saying the governor has no energy to abolish an present stool.
Equally, the 2 teams additionally expressed their opposition to the proposition to create three third class chiefs in Takum by the state authorities as contained within the government invoice.
Urging the Home of Meeting to be honest and simply within the matter, they maintained that the Takum conventional stool dates again to 1510 and it has at all times been an unique protect of the Kuteb.
Based on Yakubu, “The Takum conventional establishment was created in 1510 and it was upgraded to 3rd class in 1914 by the Queen of England. It was elevated to second class in 1982 and firstclass in 2005. This motion of the state authorities seeks to dismantle and abrogate the present conventional establishment.
“Now we have offered our paper on the public listening to, and our place stays the identical. Even when the regulation permits the governor to create chiefdoms, I don’t suppose the regulation permits the governor to demolish an present chiefdom.
“And our means of protest on this matter is thru this implies, to attract consideration to the difficulty in Takum.”
Additionally talking, Prince Sule Yusu famous that the northern conventional rulers, headed by the Sultan of Sokoto had, of their assembly, held on February 14, 2024 in Kaduna warned in opposition to rotation of conventional stool particularly amongst totally different ethnic teams.
