Jogunade is an accused person, never a king in Awo town—Prince Adegboye
A witnessed, Prince Saka Adegboye, 80, during the cross examination at
the ongoing sitting of Osun State Commission of Inquiry into the
Chieftaincy Matter of ancient town Awo, headed by Honourable Justice
Abdulrasaq Abdulkareem, declared that one Late Mr. Jogunade was an
accused person who shoot former Alawo of Awo, Oba Adediji Ajani while
contesting to become the monarch of the town and as a result of this
criminal act, led Jogunade to be banned from the ancient town.
There was melodrama on Wednesday before Justice Abdulkareem’s
Commission of Inquiry when Prince Adegboye also disclosed that
Jogunade was never a king in the town and some of the story of the
town being concocted by Oba Musa Olatunbosun,his counsel,Mr. M.M.
Nworie, Jogunade’s family counsel,Mr. A.O.Sanusi were saying rubbish
and distorting history to favour Jogunade illegally, claiming that the
Counsel representing his Abioye ruling house, Barrister Taofeeq
Ibikunle before the Commission, was not saying rubbish but facts of
the matter.
The representative of the Abioye ruling family, insisted that Jogunade
was an accused person who was banished from the town for committing an
heinous crime which was against the tradition of the ancient town,
insisting that all what Jogunade family and Oba Adebayo counsels were
saying, just put in their mouth by those who employed them and it was
just bunch of lies that was not included in the history of ancient
Awo.
Adegboye further stated that Jogunade was not a brother to Oba Abioye
in the town, claiming that Oba Abioye was father of Olanimo where
their lineage praises were “Olanimo atidi ofi wajoye”, recalling that
all the memorandum of Jogunade represented by one Mr. Isiaka Oloyede
before the Justice Akin Apara Commission of Inquiry, were dismissed
for wanton of evidence and prove, adding that Jagun of Awoland
performed the traditional rite of putting Akoko leave on the head of
current Oba Musa Olatunbosun Adebayo, the Alawo of Awoland.
His words; “I have sworn with Holy Quran before this Commission that I
would not lie and you should allow me to say the truth contained in
the history and memorandum before the Commission. If you do not want
me to talk, it means you want me to be lying here which against my
wish. During the Akin Apara Panel of Inquiry of 1976 on Awo
Chieftaincy Matter, Justice Apara with member of his Commission
visited all the compound of the ruling houses in the town and being
shown the grave of the past Alawo but to their surprise, nobody could
show the grave of Jogunade to the member of the Commission then”.
Abioye ruling house submitted in their memorandum that ;“I want to
inform this Commission that we can confirm automatically through
historical facts under Abioye ruling house, two kings have reigned and
they were Abioye and Olanimo. That Abioye died as Oba (i.e. Alawo of
Awo) and buried at Awo accordingly. The tomb of Abioye is still at Awo
till today protected and preserved at Abioye’s compound. In fact, one
Saka Adegboye who testified at Akin Apara Commission of Inquiry
actually took the chairman and members of the Commission to the site
where Abioye was buried. This was upon the express request of the
panel to visit the site.
“Now, if this panel of inquiry is prepared to visit the site, we are
ready to take them to the site at Abioye’s Compound, Awo again and
again. Olanimo, the son of Abioye who reigned as Alawo of Awo was also
buried at Abioye’s Compound in Awo. No ruling house is known and
called Yebokun/Abioye ruling house in Awo till today. Again, we state
that Abioye was a direct son of Awojobi through Odere, the second
wife. We urge the panel to reject the request of the applicant
(Jogunade) therein as it concerns Abioye ruling house. Also, the order
of rotation as suggested by the applicant (Jogunade) which removed
Abioye ruling house from the approved existing declaration be
rejected.
“The Bola Babalakin Commission of Inquiry also rejected the story of
Jogunade /Yebokun family as a ruling house in Awo. We humbly also
referred to the Letters with Reference Number: T.107/119 dated 2nd
November, 1978 from the then Ede Local Government which conveyed the
Letter with reference Number CB.141/33/8/507 dated 26th October,1978
to the head of Abioye ruling house”.
Adegboye therefore stressed that every ruling houses in Awo had other
names attached to their houses by stating as follows; Akinsilo ruling
house was calling Olosi’s compound, Awojobi ruling house called
Agbakin’s Compound, Okunji ruling house is called Areago’s Compound,
while the Abioye’s ruling house was calling Ikolaba.Compound.
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