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Ife, Modakeke no longer at war, says Ooni

By Tunji Omofoye, Osogbo
07 January 2016   |   4:55 am
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has declared that the war between Ife and Modakeke has come to a dead end saying that effort is on to establish Oduduwa Development  Trust  Fund {ODTF} to fast-track the development of Ife and its environs. Ooni Ogunwusi said youths in Ife and Modakeke are fed up with violence…
Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi

Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has declared that the war between Ife and Modakeke has come to a dead end saying that effort is on to establish Oduduwa Development  Trust  Fund {ODTF} to fast-track the development of Ife and its environs.

Ooni Ogunwusi said youths in Ife and Modakeke are fed up with violence and have decided to turn their energy towards productive engagement to enhance individual and community development in the towns.

He however asked for the support of the state government in order to give the ODTF necessary legal teething.

The monarch spoke yesterday during his thank you visit to Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola, exactly a month after the governor presented him with his staff and instrument of office, which climaxed his appointment as the Ooni of Ife.

On the entourage of the Ooni during the visit  were  all the Ife Traditional Council {ITC} led by the Lowa of Ife,Oba Joseph Ijaodola, members of the Isoro cult led by the chairman of Ife Development Council, Professor Muib Opeloye and  leaders of Ife Action Council .

Oba Ogunwusi said both the Ife Resort Centre he is building and the proposed farming project would provide gainful employment to about 40,000 youths in Ife and its environs.

He said his projects were similar in concept to the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme by the state government  adding that all hands
should be on the deck to take the youths from the streets thereby reducing social problems  to  the bearest minimum in the state.

The Ooni who was full of appreciation to the governor for the support he gave to the people of Ile Ife, lauded the governor for engaging in
monumental infrastructural development.

Oba Ijaodola  in his remark also extended appreciation of the people of Ife to the state government from  the transition and funeral of the late Ooni Okunade Sijuwade,Olubushe 11 and the appointment and presentation of staff and instrument of office to Ooni Ogunwusi In his speech, Aregbesola urged the Ooni to use his offices to benefit people in his domain and the Yoruba ethnic nationality.

He said the monarch should also make an effort for necessary rehabilitation of destroyed buildings during the communal war between Ife and Modakeke.

He said, “I am happy with the peaceful transition we witnessed in Ile Ife but I impore kabiyesi to use his power to bring peace, comfort, progress and development to Ife and Yoruba nation’’
Aregbesola while expressing joy at the peaceful transition in Ife kingdom asked the Ooni to prevail on cocoa farmers in Ife not to sell their produce outside Osun state but to first bring it to the state government for grading saying doing so would enable the farmers earnmore money from their business.

He said the state government had taken the stock of all productive cocoa trees in the state saying they amounted to about 66 million active cocoa tress capable of yielding 330,000 metric tons annually.

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