The Benin Traditional Council yesterday put to rest speculation about the disposition of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa, saying the monarch is actually “indisposed”.

Secretary to the council, Mr Frank Irabor, in a four paragraph statement which he signed, with Ref. BTC./A66/VOL. VI/T1/76 dated WFTH March 2015, said that in Palace parlance, the proper information due the general public on the disposition of the Oba is, ‘Uhunmwun ve Ekpen vb Ato’, meaning, “the Leopard is ill in the Savannah bush”.

Irabor also said that while palace chiefs and functionaries are to continue in their routine traditional duties at the palace, public engagements are therefore suspended until further notice.

Such engagements, he said, also includes courtesy visits, hearing of complaints from individuals, families and communities and in particular, complaints over inheritance and land disputes.

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Get well sir. Oba rere not one of the hungry/useless Kings we have around here.