Edo National Voice Call On Gov. Obaseki To Immediately Release The 4 Months lAllocation Of The Benin Traditional Council

A Socio Cultural Group, Edo National Voice, ENV, has  called On Governor Godwin Obaseki To as a matter of urgency release the Withheld 4 Months Statutory Benin Traditional Council Allocations:

The group In a release in Benin and signed by 

Iyamu Osaro Culture- President ,Comrade Collins Osaghae Amadin-Secretary General respectively , Lolo Emmanuel Usoh

BOT Chairman and  Osahon Okoro-Obaraye- Director of Operation and Strategy said the “actual money he released was state government supposed support funds that he ought to be given to our revered Palace for logistics as the Governor of Edo State just like it was done during the Era of successive Governments.”

According to them, “What Governor Obaseki Release Was His Supposed Obligation/Support Funds For Our Revered Palace and Not The Withheld 4 Months Statutory Benin Traditional Council Allocations:

As uncompromised defendants of our rich culture, custome, tradition, and heritage, we are here again to state without any equivocation that contrary to our recent announcement that Governor Obaseki has released the 4 Months Benin Traditional Council Statutory Allocations he deliberately withheld, the actual money he released was state government supposed support funds that he ought to be given to our revered Palace for logistics as the Governor of Edo State just like it was done during the Era of successive Governments.

Thus, the move by Governor Obaseki to approve logistics support funds for our revered Palace was an attempt to water the tension arising from our constant agitations cum engagements. 

It is important to state that the 4 Months statutory allocations in contention is a constitutional obligation of Federal Government which is always added to Local Government Council statutory allocations for onward disbursement to Traditional Rulers across the Country and no Government reserve the rights to withhold it.

“Therefore, judging from the aforementioned, we here by call on Governor Obaseki for the second time to immediately release the 4 Months Benin Traditional Council statutory allocations as accruals from Federal Government that he deliberately withheld without further delay.”

They therefore called On Governor Obaseki to release the said allocation to the Benin Traditional  Council within one week or the people will take to the street to protest the delay in releasing the money.