The Benin Traditional Council has banished some traditional functionaries from the Oba Palace in Benin City who engaged themselves in a sacrilegious show of shame and falsehood against the Benin Custom.
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Oba of Benin, Mr. Osaigbovo Iguobaro, identified the banished palace functionaries as Johnbull Igbinosun, Iduhonre (Ihogbe), S.E. Aigbiremwen, Efesoghoba (Ogbelaka) and two other Ogbelaka functionaries — Ogbeide Osagie and Osamudiame Edo for falsely claiming to be emissaries of the Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, His Royal Majesty, Ewuare The Second, Oba of Benin in the presence of the Ooni of Ife His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi; Ojaja II.
The statement said at the Palace of the Ooni, the banished palace functionaries rendered an inaccurate and disjointed account of the link between the Benin Royal Dynasty and the Ooni-ship of Ife at Ooni of Ife’s Palace in Osun State recently.
It said the affected individuals admitted before the Committee led by Chief Ekhoerovbiye Oviasogie, the Uwangue of Benin that they erred against Benin Customs.
Consequently, they were also stripped off Benin Royal beads, recognition as Palace functionaries and their traditional titles, which were handed over to their ancestors.
The suspended palace functionaries were also barred from parading themselves as Benin Palace functionaries and stopped from participating in any traditional rites in Benin before they were thereafter escorted out of the Palace by Chiefs, including Ewaise, traditional seers, with occipital horns invoked ancestral spirits to bear witness.
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