Family court was established by Ajimobi – Ex-Oyo attorney-general debunks Makinde’s claim

Former attorney general and commissioner for justice in Oyo state, Asiwaju Adebayo Mutalubi Ojo on Thursday punctured claims by Governor Seyi Makinde that the architecture for the family court’s enforcement was not established.

Ojo during a chat with Mega Icon Magazine revealed that the court was established in the state by late Sen. Abiola Ajimobi while the  Child’s Right Law of Oyo State was assented to in 2006, just as he advised the present administration to desist from incessant lies and dissemination of false information.

Meanwhile, the state governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, who had earlier commissioned the Family Court at the Iyaganku GRA, Ibadan, the state capital on Thursday, in a statement signed by his mouthpiece, Taiwo Adisa, said , though the act was domesticated in Oyo State in 2006, but the architecture for its enforcement was not established.

Governor Makinde continued,  “Today, we are here to commission the Family Court. You may recall that one of the points raised in our Roadmap to Accelerated Development in Oyo State, 2019-2023, is to play our part in strengthening the laws around the Child Rights Act, 2003.

“Although this act was domesticated in Oyo State in 2006, the court where this law was to be enforced was not established. We all know what happens when a law is made but the architecture for enforcement is non-existent.

But, the late former governor Ajimobi’s aide, Barrister Ojo said, ” It is not true as stated by Governor Seyi Makinde that the court did not exist in Oyo State before. It was established pursuant to the Child Rights Law of Oyo State, which prescribes that cases involving Children must not be done in a regular court environment.

“Senator Abiola Ajimobi released the money for the establishment of the court to the judiciary and it was well executed. It was undertaken during my successor’s tenure, Barrister Oluseun Abimbola. The building commissioned today was fully paid for by the immediate past government.

“Justice Aderonke Aderemi ( now the President of the Customary Court of Appeal) was the first presiding Judge of the court while Mrs. Kehinde Durosaro is the Deputy Chief Registrar of the court and Demola Salami was part of the Judicial Service Commission that brought it into fruition.

“Governor Seyi Makinde’s government only did the commissioning”, the former attorney general concluded