July 2019 Edition

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July 2019
will be more chaos. I remember a few years ago
when I bought a land in Lagos and saw people
fighting on another land the day I was to
commence construction on my land, with
nobody to report to, but if they had a traditional
ruler in that area, I think the ruler would have
mediated the affairs amicably. The traditional
rulers are making peace on land because they
are the owners of the land but the government
serves as the overall owner. They are the people
ruling the land before the government came in.
water for free. I also make sure that
electricity bills are paid as at when due but
whenever I see that the bills are high and my
people can't afford it, I will call my council to
come with the community money to assist in
paying.
Can you share a few words about the
governor of Ogun State, HE Prince Dapo
Abiodun and your opinion about him?
Looking at Ogun State as a whole with several
traditional rulers from different regions of
Ogun, how would you say your reigns as the
Oru of Imoru Ijebu has impacted the
community and the government as a whole?
In Imoru Ijebu, we have so many traditional
rulers in Ogun state but the Ijebu traditional
rulers are always taking care of their
communities in other to enhance peace and
stability in their domain. For instance, if we have
damaged roads in Ijebu and the government fails
to repair them, we will have to do it ourselves
just for peace to reign. If there is no stable
power supply and water, it is the traditional ruler
that will send its people to the authority in
charge. Also, in Imoru we don't sell water,
nobody is buying water. What we do is that we
maintain the boreholes and reservoir given to us
by the government. We make sure that it works
perfectly so that people can have access to
We've been under severe punishment in
Ogun State for the past eight years. We
enjoyed during the administration of Otunba
Gbenga Daniel but during the administration
of the last governor, Senator Ibikunle
Amosun, no single good roads in Ijebu. For
example, I have about three damaged
Mercedes cars parked in my garage as a result
of the bad roads. I keep spending money
every day on repairs and recently spent over
two hundred thousand to repair another one.
One hundred and fifty thousand for ABS and
fifty thousand for arms because of the bad
roads. But Dapo Abiodun has seen our
problem before he decided to come to our
aid. With Dapo Abiodun being an Ijebu man,
he has seen all that Ijebu people have
suffered. He is God sent to the people of
Ijebu and I believed he will help us ratify
these anomalies by the grace of God.
Just a week ago, the deputy governor came to
inspect Imoru to see the situation of things
and report back to the governor.