CSOs applaud Gov Abiodun for suspending monarch over assault on septuagenarian

csos applaud gov abiodun for suspending monarch over assault on septuagenarian

A coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Ogun state has counseled Governor Dapo Abiodun for his swift choice to droop the Olorile of Orile-Ifo, Oba Semiu Ogunjobi, for six months after he publicly humiliated a 73-year-old man, Chief Arinola Abraham Love, on a freeway.

The CSOs additionally praised the Ogun state police command for arraigning the embattled monarch on Tuesday on a three-count cost of conspiracy, assault, and conduct more likely to trigger a breach of peace.

In an announcement issued in Abeokuta and signed by the coalition’s chairman, activist lawyer Comrade Solomon Bankole, the group lauded the state authorities for taking decisive motion. 

Nonetheless, they urged that the case shouldn’t be deserted on the preliminary stage, stressing the necessity to guarantee justice for the sufferer.

Bankole condemned Oba Ogunjobi’s function within the incident, describing it as an abuse of energy. 

He recounted how the monarch allegedly compelled the aged man to kneel earlier than him on the freeway whereas his palace aides bodily assaulted him.

Emphasizing that such behaviour disgraces the standing of conventional rulers within the “Káàrò, O ò Jí’re” land, Bankole insisted that suspension alone was inadequate. 

He referred to as for the thorough prosecution of the monarch to function a deterrent.

He additional said that Chief Arinola’s dignity had been trampled upon within the eyes of the general public and that the one method for the federal government to show its dedication to defending residents’ rights was to make sure justice for the septuagenarian.

“It beats our creativeness to behold the disturbing video of the humiliation carried out on the persona of that 73-year previous Chief Arinola, the place a supposed custodian of the Yoruba cultural beliefs and norms was seen ranting like somebody bitten by a rabies contaminated canines”.

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“As a Yoruba man to start out with, it isn’t in our tradition; it’s in opposition to our custom and values to have kids bodily assaulting the elders, discuss talkless of getting a standard rulers supervising such public humiliation of somebody sufficiently old to be his father”.

“I’ve watched and listened to that video which has now gone viral and I have to say that it was too horrible and unacceptable in our society”.

“Watching that 73-year-old man helplessly on his kneels, dealing with a downpour of curses and absorbing a sizzling slap by a palace slave was a gory sight and a nightmare.

Chief Arinola was certainly, caught on the flawed facet of the monarch’s legislation and so, he was dragged to the ground and dehumanised earlier than the world.

We’re certainly, grateful to the finger that recorded that scene and launched the clear video, did us a giant favour in any other case, the delicate wanting Baba would have been efficiently humiliated, most likely killed and buried with none noise simply as Oba Ogunjobi had boasted.

“Ogun CSOs is significantly in help of the steps to this point taken by the state authorities by suspending the power-drunk monarch, the Olorile of Orile Ifo, Oba Abdul-Semiu Ogunjobi who publicly humiliated the septuagenarian, Chief Arinola”.

“It’s on this premise that we’re additionally demanding that the boy that slapped him shouldn’t be allowed to return to his spouse and youngsters.

Apart his six-month suspension, the king should produce the overzealous boy and different disposable chanting his panegyric whereas descending on that Baba”.

“We commend the media practitioners within the state for bringing such report back to the fore for public dialogue in addition to different stakeholders who rose as much as defend the previous man who was publicly assaulted and dehumanised”.

“We at the moment are calling on all the safety businesses to be sure that Oba Ogunjobi is prosecuted as this can go a good distance at setting the usual for what the normal establishment ought to be in Ogun State”.

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