By ALI MUHAMMAD RABIU; Editing by BASIRAT MEMUDU
The People of Moro local government area of Kwara state, under the aegis of the Moro Descendants Development Union (MODDU), have decried exclusion of traditional institution from their communities in the recent upgrading of traditional rulers in the state.
Speaking with journalists in Shao, the president of the sociocultural organization, Professor Reuben Akano, said the Kwara state government has excluded the local government area from all grading, re-grading and upgrading of its traditional institutions and rulers from 2003 till date.
He appealed to the state government to summon the political will and treat all local government areas as equal by restoring the rights and dignity of the people of Moro local government area as being done to the others.
Akano also lamented that out of the five local government areas the Kwara North senatorial district, namely Baruten, Edu, Kaiama, Moro and Patigi, it is only the Moro local government area that does not have a graded chief and traditional council at present.
He urged the state government to urgently correct the imbalance in order to prevent negative experiences which have been witnessed in other places in the country.
