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The Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Adeyemo Adejugbe, on Saturday, ordered the dissolution of the Sharia panel set up at the Central Mosque, Ado Ekiti in the interest of peaceful coexistence and law and order in the community.

Adejugbe spoke in Ado Ekiti during a meeting he held with the chiefs and indigenes of the community and the Chief Imam and President of the League of Imams and Alfas in the Southwest, Edo and Delta states, Sheik Jamiu Kewulere; and other Muslim leaders in Ado Ekiti over tension in some quarters over the sharia panel issue.

This came barely two days after the state government said that the existing legal structure in the state did not recognise the Sharia Court or Sharia Arbitration Panel. The state Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Dayo Apata, (SAN) had spoken in reaction to news reports stipulating the first public sitting of a Shari’ah Panel in the state which resolved two marriage disputes.

He had said that the legal structure in Ekiti State (i.e. Customary Court, Customary Court of Appeal and High Court) had been handling issues relating to Islamic, Christian and traditional marriages and inheritance without any rancour or agitation.

Adejugbe said, “Based on this Sharia issue, I summoned the Chief Imam and his lieutenants, members of the Ewi-in-Council, the president of Ado Progressives Union and Ado sons and daughters to discuss the matter because it is a sensitive issue. “We all listened and it appears they set up a committee at the Central Mosque with the intention to listen to disputes.

According to them, they have good intentions and it was an internal arrangement that has nothing to do with any external person or somebody influencing them.

“I told them the mood of the nation will not allow such to happen now, that they should revert to how the founding fathers of the mosque had been settling disputes in the past without setting up a committee. “I told them that there is no need for the committee and they should dissolve the committee henceforth.

That is the decision of the Ewi-in-Council and that is the position of all Ado sons and daughters. “The panel stands dissolved. If we should allow such committees, the Christians too will want to set up committees in their various churches, the traditional worshippers too and before you know it, it will lead to crises.

Speaking earlier, the Chief Imam, Kewulere, who confirmed setting up the committee, which he said had resolved a marriage dispute and adjourned on a second matter, dismissed all insinuations that it was set up for sinister motives.

Kewulere, who said that Muslims and adherents of other religions had been enjoying cordial relationships, said, “Basically, the committee is to look into matters of inheritance in the interest of our members.” He dismissed insinuations that it was to create crisis and he dismissed any external influence or link.

LibertyRep:
So some people setup a committee to resolve disputes amongst themselves, how is that anyone's problem? Is this not within their rights to do so?

Nothing stops the people of other faiths from doing the same, if they wish to.

The security agents should be the one to disband them, if they contravene the law of the land. Since the issue of religious tolerance is one sided according to you... What do you think is best for the country called Nigeria?

Indeed , the mantra of religious tolerance is one sided.

LibertyRep:
So some people setup a committee to resolve disputes amongst themselves, how is that anyone's problem? Is this not within their rights to do so?

Nothing stops the people of other faiths from doing the same, if they wish to.

The security agents should be the one to disband them, if they contravene the law of the land.

Indeed , the mantra of religious tolerance is one sided.

franchasofficia:
The karma and nemesis that will visit Yoruba land for their decades of persecution and gangup against Igbos will come through Yoruba Moslems.


Islam will be the loophole that will destabilize Southwest.


For now, they can pretend that all is well, that Yoruba is one, with time, the truth will be so glaring to ignore, time will tell

SmellingAnus:
Since the issue of religious tolerance is one sided according to you... What do you think is best for the country called Nigeria?

franchasofficia:
The karma and nemesis that will visit Yoruba land for their decades of persecution and gangup against Igbos will come through Yoruba Moslems.


Islam will be the loophole that will destabilize Southwest.


For now, they can pretend that all is well, that Yoruba is one, with time, the truth will be so glaring to ignore, time will tell

franchasofficia:
The karma and nemesis that will visit Yoruba land for their decades of persecution and gangup against Igbos will come through Yoruba Moslems.

franchasofficia:
The karma and nemesis that will visit Yoruba land for their decades of persecution and gangup against Igbos will come through Yoruba Moslems.


Islam will be the loophole that will destabilize Southwest.


For now, they can pretend that all is well, that Yoruba is one, with time, the truth will be so glaring to ignore, time will tell

TimeManager:
Are you talking about Karma that's visiting SE with unknown gunmen and kidnappings?. Why some Igbo kids like this one always have a way of making themselves look like victims even in unrelated issues to Igbo affairs, beats my imagination. You left the crisis of ipob terrorism that has for so long consumed the SE but shift your focus on people who are solving a potential crisis amicably among themselves. And you're talking karma while your own roof is burning. C'mon man, Gerrarrahia men.


-Kiss the truth!