{"id":2818,"date":"2012-10-22T17:17:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:17:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:17:53","slug":"ikeduru-lga-suspend-traditional-ruler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Ikeduru LGA Suspend Traditional Ruler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ikeduru.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2819\" title=\"ikeduru\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ikeduru.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ikeduru.jpg 599w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ikeduru-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of Traditional Rulers Council of Ikeduru Local Government Area, Eze Marcel Egemaonu has been suspended from office till further notice.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed to <em>Imo Trumpeta<\/em> by the Executive Chairman of Ikeduru Local Government Area Chief Sam Aka.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Council Boss, the Traditional Ruler was suspended and would be recalled whenever investigation over his acts in office were concluded.<\/p>\n<p>It was learnt that the annual Iriji Festival of Ikeduru may have been the cause that led to the Eze\u2019s suspension.<\/p>\n<p><em>Imo Trumpeta<\/em> was told that Eze Egemaonu went ahead with the new yam festival with out informing or involving the Local Government Council.<\/p>\n<p>He was also accused of not following the tradition by not handing kolanut to Inyishi community, who are the first born of Ikeduru, to break the kolanut as annually done.<\/p>\n<p><em>Imo<\/em> <em>Trumpeta <\/em>was also informed that the Councilors of Ikeduru LGA wrote a petition against the Monarch, for neglecting them before, during and after the festival.<\/p>\n<p>One of the allegation leveled against the Traditional Ruler was that during the ceremony, a minute of silence was not observed by the people of Ikeduru, at least, as a last respect to one of their prominent sons who just passed on, Chief Odejimjim.<\/p>\n<p>The Council Chairman, Sam Aka, however said that after investigation, if Eze Marcel Egemaonu was not found wanting, he would be recalled back to office immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of Traditional Rulers Council of Ikeduru Local Government Area, Eze Marcel Egemaonu has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}