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We didn’t benefit from the $2.1b arms fund, Oyo Royal Fathers cry out
It was reported that all Traditional Council of Nigeria benefited from the $2.1 billion arms fund, but the Oyo State traditional rulers have announced publicly of not being part of it .The monarchs spoke through the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, in Oyo town, yesterday.
While exonerating himself and other members of the council in the 33 local government councils in the state, the Alaafin, who spoke with members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Oyo Council said,
“When you talk of the arms deal fund, to the best of my knowledge, none of the traditional rulers in all the 33 local government councils in the state collected from such money. We are not part of it.”
*Elders have spoken, what next???
