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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Paramount Chief has called on the Gambia government to stop the Yoruba community from practising a monarchy in The Gambia. Chief Momodou Bojang was responding to a section of the Yoruba community, who recently honoured Abolade Moshood, aka Oba Abolade, as the royal father of the community.<\/p>\n \u201cA Nigerian cannot be a king in The Gambia,\u201d the Kombo North chief told The Standard. \u201cThat is practically impossible.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not having a king. How can you impose it on us? That is an impersonation. We will not take it,\u201d he added. Chief Bojang said The Gambia should graduate from being a state where anyone could just dump \u201cthings on us\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe government or Gambians should not accept it. If they want to do their traditional dancing and cultural activities, they can do that. Nobody will stop them but they cannot practise something that is not recognised by our laws. I am raising these issues because I know their culture; we cannot handle it,\u201d he argued. Chief Bojang said he has raised it with the Nigerian community but no one listened.<\/p>\n \u201cI have asked them to tell me which monarchy they belong to because I know Nigeria has monarchs and paramount chiefs but they are answerable to the king. If Moshood Abolade wants to be a king, he should go back to Nigeria and be a king there but not here. You can come here as a visitor with your portfolio but you cannot exercise those royal powers here,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cI don\u2019t have anything against the Nigerian community but I am worried that if such activities are unchecked, there will be dire consequences. I remember King HRH Appolus Chu visited The Gambia but he never requested to see the self-proclaimed king [Abolade]. That king is a Yoruba \u2026 if they were legitimate, he would have visited them.\u201d<\/p>\n Chief Bojang said the Amir of Northern Nigeria also came to The Gambia in 2002 but never visited them, adding that even the Nigerian High Commission doesn\u2019t attend their programs.<\/p>\n Contacted for comments on the issue, the minister of regional government Sheriff Abba Sanyang, simply said: \u201cIf you call yourself a king, where is your kingdom? If you are a king, you should have a kingdom so people\u2019s minds are not controlled by the government. The government controls its policies in the state, so any illegal action is unacceptable by the constitution.\u201d Mr Sanyang\u2019s predecessor, Musa Drammeh, had once described the coronation of a Manding king in The Gambia as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n Source: The Gambia | Standard News From The Gambia<\/b><\/p>\n For More News And Analysis About Gambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Omar Bah Africa-Press – Gambia. The Paramount Chief has called on the Gambia government to stop the Yoruba community from practising a monarchy in The Gambia. Chief Momodou Bojang was responding to a section of the Yoruba community, who recently honoured Abolade Moshood, aka Oba Abolade, as the royal father of the community. \u201cA Nigerian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8],"tags":[2355,2361,260,7102,7101],"class_list":["post-17703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia","tag-paramount","tag-practising-monarchy"],"yoast_head":"\n