…Says he was a land grabber not an Oba
The Olowu In Council,has disassociated itself from the murder of the Baale of Agodo in the Ewekoro local government in Ogun state,Ayinde Odetola, saying his death has no relationship with any conflict between the Olowu or the Alake kingship.
In a statement issued Wednesday and signed by the Akogun Owu,Chief Isola Akinsipo for the Olowu in Council,the council declared that the insinuation is not only far from the truth but that the Agodo community which is presided over by a Baale has never at any time applied to the Olowu or Alake for the uplifting of their Baale to a Coronet as being misconstrued.
The statement explained further that,”from time immemorial, Agodo village which has been a multi-clan community from Abeokuta had been in peace until some six years ago when some hoodlums besieged the environment to grab the community’s land.
Report’s available at our disposal in Owu Kingdom indicate the man who claimed to be Oba in Agodo village had been involved in land disputes with Agodo people which had caused bad blood among him, accompanied hoodlums and the Agodo community”.
To drive home it’s point that the late ‘monarch’ was a land grabber,the statement added that in 2016, for instance,” Agodo village was thrown into a turmoil following an alleged attempt by the man and some thugs to bury a corpse in Agodo village as a decoy to establish ancestry to the land adding that by the directive of Olowu Kangunere, Oba Olusanya Adegboyega Dosunmu,Olowu of Owu,Oba Olufemi Ogunleye,Towulade Akinale was deployed to visit Agodo village and ensured there was peace.
Read full statement below:
.Olowu-in-Council, Olowu’s Palace, Oke Ago Owu, Abeokuta
Press Statement
The attention of Olowu-in-Council, Owu Kingdom, Abeokuta has been drawn to the trending media reports about the alleged murder of a traditional ruler in Agodo village in the Asa-Yobo area of Ewekoro Local Government of Ogun State and the insinuation that the that the incident was prompted by conflict between Owu and Ake people over the kingship in Agodo village.
The insinuation is far from the truth as on no occasion has the Agodo community, with a Baale in situ, has contested or applied to Olowu or Alake Egba for the uplifting of their Baale to Coronet. From time immemorial, Agodo village which has been a multi-clan community from Abeokuta had been in peace until some six years ago when some hoodlums besieged the environment to grab the community’s land.
Report’s available at our disposal in Owu Kingdom indicate the man who claimed to be Oba in Agodo village had been involved in land disputes with Agodo people which had caused bad blood among him, accompanied hoodlums and the Agodo community. In 2016, for instance, Agodo village was thrown into a turmoil following an alleged attempt by the man and some thugs to bury a corpse in Agodo village as a decoy to establish ancestry to the land.
By the directive of Olowu Kangunere, Oba Olusanya Adegboyega Dosunmu, Olowu of Owu, Oba Olufemi Ogunleye, Towulade Akinale was deployed to visit Agodo village and ensured there was peace. The report of a mefiative meeting in Agofo, suing for peace and co-existence of the community was published in a news magazine The Village Network, vol. 3 No 5 (2016), copy attached.
The Agodo community as at today, has denied their knowledge of any Oba in Agodo village as the purported Olu of Agodo has no physical presence nor a Palace in Agodo
Suffice it to call for enquiry as to who recommended him to both Egba Traditional Council and the Ministry of Local Goverment and Chieftaincy Affairs.
E-signed
Chief Ishola Akinsipo,
Akogun Owu,
For: Olowu-in-Council, Owu Kingdom, Abeokuta
26th January, 2022
