Osun state government has expressed readiness to set up a tripartite committee to review the existing Chiefs Law of the State.
Governor Adegboyega Oyetola stated this at the government house, Osogbo while receiving a proposed letter aimed at effecting the review of the State Chiefs Law written by members of the State Traditional Council of Obas.
The Committee, according to the Governor, will include a representative each from the members of the State Executive Council, Legislature and Traditional Council, with a mandate to review and analyze critically, the palpable grey areas in the said Law.
He said the Committee when constituted would come up with suggestions and proffer workable solutions to some of the identified challenges in the existing Law, thus helping to ensure possible amendments that would suit the collective interest of the people of the State.
Presenting the letter on behalf of the Chairman of Osun Council of Obas, Aragbiji of Iragbiji, Oba Abdul-Rasheed Ayotunde Olabomi, said the call to review the State Chiefs Law was arrived at having painstakingly assessed and evaluated the grey areas of the existing Law.
Oba Olabomi who is the leader of the Committee on State Chiefs Law set up by the members of the Traditional Council of Obas, said the review of the Law would help to innovatively reposition the traditional institution in the State.
The Aragbiji of Iragbiji said the Chairman of the Council and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, was pleased with the decision of the Committee to get the Law reviewed.
Abiodun Adeoye
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