Oba of Benin Suspends Chief Over Alleged Land-Grabbing, Other Offences

The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, has suspended actually certainly one of his chiefs, Roland Ekhoe Ogbebor.

Ogbebor was the Odionwere Omuada of Benin Kingdom.

Ogbebor is being investigated by operatives of the Monetary and Financial Crime Payment (EFCC) and policemen over alleged land-grabbing and totally different unnamed jail offences.

Suspending Ogbebor, in response to the Oba, is to allow EFCC operatives and policemen carry out their investigations with out obstruction.

The petitions to the EFCC and the police in the direction of the suspended chief had been principally from some aggrieved people inside the Diaspora.

Secretary to the Benin Standard Council (BTC), Frank Irabor, on Thursday in an web assertion, launched the suspension of Ogbebor.

Irabor acknowledged: “That’s to inform most individuals that simply currently, the EFCC and the police opened investigations on petitions written in the direction of Roland Ekhoe Ogbebor, former Odionwere Omuada, who was discharged in November, 2018.

“With the intention to allow unhindered investigations by the EFCC and the police, His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare Il, Oba of Benin has directed the quick suspension of Roland Ekhoe Ogbebor from the palace.”