Following complaints, petitions and legal tussles among
interested parties, the FCT Administration has suspended all chieftaincy
related appointments in the traditional institutions.
This was announced in a recent circular released by the
Office of the FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye.
Ajakaiye stated that the issues relating to the appointment
and installation into traditional positions in the FCT have sometimes led to
situations that are inimical to peaceful co-existence in some of these
communities.
“It had become pertinent to emphasize the provision of the
FCT Chiefs (Appointment & Deposition) Act, 2007, which states that “upon
the death, resignation or deposition of any chief or traditional Ruler, of a
kind referred in sub-section (1)of this section, the minister may approve as
the successor to such office of a chief or traditional ruler as the case may
be, by any person appointed in that behalf by the persons charged with the
responsibility of appointing persons to the office of chief or traditional
ruler in accordance with the provisions of any order made by the minister after
consultation with the Department of Local Government Administration,” the
circular stated.
By Mulikatu Mukaila
