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The Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Adeyemo Adejugbe, yesterday, ordered the dissolution of the Sharia panel set up at the Central Mosque, Ado Ekiti to ensure law and order as well as peaceful coexistence in the state.
Adejugbe spoke in Ado Ekiti during a meeting he held with the chiefs, and indigenes of the community, as well as the Chief Imam and President of the League of Imams and Alfas in the South-west, Edo and Delta states, Sheik Jamiu Kewulere; and other Muslim leaders over the tension in some quarters over the sharia panel.
This came barely two days after the state government said that the existing legal structure in the state did not recognise the Sharia Court or Sharia Arbitration Panel.
The state Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Dayo Apata (SAN) had spoken in reaction to news reports on the first public sitting of a Shari’ah Panel in the state, which resolved two marriage disputes.
He had stated that the Customary Court, Customary Court of Appeal and High Court had been handling issues relating to Islamic, Christian and traditional marriages and inheritance without any rancour or agitation.
Adejugbe said: “Based on this Sharia issue, I summoned the Chief Imam and his lieutenants, members of the Ewi-in-Council, the President of Ado Progressives Union and Ado sons and daughters to discuss the matter because it is a sensitive issue.
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