Involve traditional institutions in dealing with insecurity, monarch tells FG

A monarch, the Jagunmolu of Shomolu /Bariga, His Royal Majesty, Oba Gbolahan Timson, has identified the unwillingness of the Federal Government to accept the assistance of the traditional institutions, as the root causes of insecurity in the country.

The Monarch stated this in Lagos, during an interactive session with a group of journalists.

According to him, “Insecurity problems in the country persists because the government and the people in power are generally in constant fear of the traditional institutions usurping their executive power, whatever it is, that is my own opinion.

It is not comfortable for the land to rest on the house rather the house can comfortably rest on the land, so the government is supposed to be on the shoulder of traditional institutions, that is when things can go on smoothly, he declared.

“For anything going on in the community, the King must know and hear first, why would you now choose to distance yourself from that person in that position? That is why the government is not finding things easy security wise.

The North East is in serious shambles because you cannot really hold any emir in that area responsible for the happenings in their environment because you don’t even give them the powers required of them to monitor their people and checkmate them.

“Rather somebody from the government office wants to come and checkmate people in a village he doesn’t know anything about.

What does he know about the village and when you are doing it, you do it in isolation whether the Oba or emir likes it or not does not concern the government. Not until that thing is reversed fast I don’t see the pendulum swinging the right way,” he said.