Successive governments eroded powers of traditional rulers - Don Successive governments from colonial to post-colonial administrators had in all ways relegated the Nigerian traditional rulers, a don has observed. Prof. Isaac Albert of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, made the observation at a three day conference on Leadership and Cultural Diplomacy in Nigeria on Tuesday He said that due to this development, the traditional rulers were no longer in charge of their domains. The don, in a paper entitled: A Lesson in Cultural Diplomacy, said ``some traditional rulers end up messing up their positions in their attempt to gain relevance with certain military or elected authorities. ``However, those of them who were stubborn to the government actually met their waterloo by being taught different bitter lessons. ``To show the extent to which traditional rulers have lost control of everything, a certain ruler told me to serve as a mediator between him and another ruler on a given issue. ``A few years ago, I was sponsored by the American Government to hold meetings with all council of traditional rulers in Nigeria. ``Some of them from South-South told me that they could not give me implementation plans because their subjects had driven them away from their communities. ``They added that they were administering their communities from other clans\; and one even said that he was driven away from his throne by militants seven years ago.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:10:46 +0000
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