SAN seek financial autonomy, arbitration rights for traditional rulers

By Shina Abubakar Osogbo

A ineligible luminary, Mr Kunle Adegoke has tasked the Federal Government to fast-track the ongoing constitution amendment to let accepted rulers successful the state bask fiscal autonomy and rights of arbitration.

He disclosed this portion delivering a lecture titled, “The Role of Traditional Rulers successful Constitutional Democracy successful Nigeria”, held astatine Osun State University, Osogbo connected Monday.

He said the establishing National Council of Traditional Rulers to proposal the President and its equivalent astatine the authorities level, arsenic envisaged successful the ongoing constitution amendment is not capable but the process should besides assistance fiscal autonomy to the assembly to insulate accepted rulers from governmental interference.

He besides tasked the National Assembly to marque the powerfulness to legislate connected customary arbitration and different alternate quality solution method arsenic an point connected the concurrent legislative database to let accepted rulers arbitrate connected matters relating to customary law.

His words, “Traditional rulers person played this relation successful the past and are inactive playing aforesaid but with little effectiveness than would person been if this is institutionalized successful a mode giving it a law bite. Their integration into ADR could heighten entree to justice, particularly successful agrarian areas wherever modern institutions of justness person not been readily disposable oregon are seen from a hostile perspective.

“It has been suggested that accepted institutions beryllium assigned the relation of nonmigratory registration successful bid to heighten mitigation of insecurity. “Their proximity enables close tracking of migrants and strangers, providing real-time quality to instrumentality enforcement and reducing anonymous transgression activities.” It has besides been suggested that this could code indigene-settler tensions by reforming citizenship provisions to see semipermanent residents’ rights, minimizing exclusion that fuels conflicts.

“It is important that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ought to beryllium speedily amended to make roles for accepted rulers. The National Assembly should reason the on-going reforms aimed astatine establishing “National Council of Traditional Rulers to counsel the President, State Councils of Chiefs to lend to bid building, customary law, and Local Government Traditional Councils to enactment grassroots improvement and assemblage security.” This should see “financial autonomy and law protections to insulate accepted rulers from governmental interference.”

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