Traditionalist Offers Tips On How To Stop Public Office Holders From Embezzling Public Funds

<h4>Traditionalist Offers Tips<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that a Traditional religion adherent&comma; Oba Ìsèse Of Ogun state and Chairman Ìsèse Kingdom Of Truth Association Of Nigeria&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Oba Ifarotimi Adifagbola Balogun has called for the adoption of Ogun&comma; &&num;8220&semi;the god of iron&comma;&&num;8221&semi; to swear in all elective and appointed office holders in Nigeria rather than Bible and Qur&&num;8217&semi;an in order to curb the misappropriation of public funds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Oba Adifagbola Balogun made this call during Idi-Ori Annual Festival&comma; held at Idi-Ori Palace&comma; in Abeokuta North Local Government Area&comma; Ogun state&comma; which herald the residents to worship Olumori deity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Oba Adifagbola Balogun was conferred with a chieftaincy title&comma; Laderin Of Idi-Ori by the Baale Idi-Ori community&comma; Baale Dahood Adedeji Adegboyega at the annual event of Idi-Ori day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking with journalists&comma; Oba Adifagbola Balogun&comma; said&comma; <em><strong>&&num;8220&semi;We have contributed and are still contributing to the development of our community&comma; Idi-Ori and the nation at large&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The problem we are facing in Nigeria is our people at the helm of affairs because they are not honest&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s what is affecting us&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&&num;8220&semi;If we can decide to be swearing in political office holders&comma; either elective or appointed officers&comma; in traditional ways or through the god of iron&comma; things will be better and they will stop embezzling our money because they know the immediate consequence of their action&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Even in the judiciary&comma; the judges too will give fair hearing and judgement&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While urging the federal&comma; state and local governments to give them the same honour as accorded Muslims and Christians&comma; Oba Adifagbola Balogun argued that<em><strong> &&num;8221&semi;they were entitled to all the things the other two religions enjoy in Nigeria&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ealier speaking&comma; the Baale of Idi-Ori&comma; Baale Adegboyega said that the programme is celebrated annually to worship Olumori shrine and appease her for peace and comfortability of the community&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">Baale Adegboyega<&sol;a> said that he was overwhelmed to celebrate the festival with chieftaincy title conferred to some prominent people of Idi-Ori and its environs&comma; noting that those conferred with chieftaincy title was done through their contributions to the community&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;25266" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-25266" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-25266" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;05&sol;TRADITIONALIST-696x632-1-300x191&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Traditionalist Offers Tips On How To Stop Public Office Holders From Embezzling Public Funds" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"191" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-25266" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Oba Ifarotimi Adifagbola Balogun<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;