Sokoto State Legislatures Strengthens Bill To Empower Only The Executive To Appoint and Dethrone Traditional Heads

 

 

 

 The Embattled Sultan which is the Most Traditional stool in Sokoto State is under fire from the State Law makers as they strengthens the Laws of the land, quoting from the Constitution of Sokoto State Local Government law of 2009 as amended.

The law vested only the Executive to appoints or dethroned village head or Chief.

Sokoto state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Hon. Nasiru Mohammed Binji has said that no traditional institution has the constitutional power to appoint or Deposed any traditional ruler.

 

Binji made the remarks on Tuesday at a public hearing on a bill to amend the Sokoto state local Government law of 2009 held at the Mini Chamber of the state House of Assembly.

He said according to the constitution of the federal republic, the power to appoint or dethrone any traditional ruler be it District or Village head lies on the powers of the executive directly or indirectly.

” Section 17 subsection 1 of the Nigerian constitution provides advisory role only to traditional institutions, that’s to advise states and local Governments on cultural and chieftaincy matters in their respective states”

” Sokoto state Government is trying to set records straight based on the constitutional provisions and avoid aged long tradition whereby Sultan Appoints and dethrone traditional rulers in the state, as it’s becoming much inconsistent with the provisions of the Nigerian constitution,” Binji stated.

In his submission, Dr Balarabe Shehu Kakale a former member of the National Assembly, acting on behalf of the Sokoto Indigenous Association urged members of the state legislative house to quash the bill, as it’s political and lacks the support of the majority of the state Indigenes.