THE Oko people in Egbaland has appealed to Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun
State, not to sign the amended Bill to create 37 Local Council Development Areas
into law without returning Orile-Oko to Obafemi Owode Local Government, to avoid
unnecessary communal clashes.
They vowed to reject such move to return the community with all the pints of blood
in their bodies to Remo North, insisting they belong to Egba and not Remo North.
Addressing newsmen on Sunday, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital was the Oluwo
Oke Ona, Chief Abayomi Jiboku, who claimed that all Oko indigenes had their root in
Oke Ona Egba, adding that the community had over the years been under the control
of Remo.
Jiboku, who doubles as the Oluwo Oko and flanked by others chiefs in Oke Ona Egba
said the position of the House of Assembly, that Orile Oko issue had to do with
boundary adjustment was a “lame excuse.”
“We, the people of Oko in Egbaland both in Abeokuta, Orile Oko and in the Diaspora,
absolutely reject with all the pints of blood in our bodies, the return of our
homestead, Orile Oko, to Remo North Local Government. We are Egba. We belong to
Obafemi Owode Local Government in Egbaland.
“By the result of the referendum conducted in Orile Oko in 2002, no government has
the power to obliterate the sovereignty of the people of Orile Oko to be merged with
the kith and kin in Obafemi Owode Local Government. That referendum is their
sovereignty. It is unalterable. It is immutable. It is undeniable,” Jiboku said.
He said the position was not only illogical but based unwisely that it is only the
National Boundaries Commission that could carry out boundary adjustment between
Obafemi Owode and Remo North LG areas.
Jiboku said the function of the National Boundaries Commission does not include
boundary issues within the state, especially when such issue is not between two
states of the federation.
The High Chief of Oke Ona Egba said the Assembly erred in law by conducting a
public hearing on 32 LCDAS, which had already been created by Local Government
(Creation and Transitional Provisions) Law of Ogun State, 2002, under the
administration of former Governor Olusegun Osoba.
Tribune
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