Insecurity: Senior Lawyer Advocates Constitutional Recognition For Monarchs

A Senior Advicate of Nigeria, Kunle Adegoke (SAN) has suggested that the accepted institutions beryllium assigned the relation of nonmigratory registration to cheque insecurity successful the country.

He canvassed the presumption successful Osogbo yesterday successful a lecture titled, “The Role of Traditional Rulers successful Constitutional Democracy successful Nigeria” arsenic portion of activities marking the 15th coronation day of Oba Jimoh Olanipekun, Larooye II, the Ataoja of Osogbo.

The ineligible luminary contended that accepted rulers were closest to the people. Their proximity enabled close tracking of migrants and strangers, providing real-time quality to instrumentality enforcement and reducing anonymous transgression activities.

Besides, Adegoke, a.k.a. KRAD, called for speedy amendment of the nation’s constitution to recognise accepted rulers and make roles for them, adding that the National Assembly should reason the ongoing reforms to found the National Council of Traditional Rulers.

He added that specified a Council astatine the nationalist level should beryllium saddled with the work of advising the president and the State Council of Chiefs connected contributing to bid gathering and customary law. At the aforesaid time, the Chiefs lend to peacebuilding and customary law. At the aforesaid time, the Local Government Traditional Council would enactment grassroots improvement and assemblage security.

Adegoke besides sought to incorporated accepted rulers into the Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanism, adding that the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 constitution, point 34 of Part 1 of the Second Schedule, provides concern arbitration arsenic an exclusive legislative point reserved for the National Assembly.

His words: “If we are superior astir preserving our culture, past the constitution indispensable locomotion the talk, a radical who suffer interaction with their civilization are similar a histrion uprooted-still greenish for a while, but inevitably destined to wither” Adegoke posited.