BREWING TENSION IN BWARI AREA COUNCIL OF FCT OVER THE IMPOSITION OF A NON INDIGEN AS EMIR OF BWARI CHIEFDOM BY THE FCT MINISTER

Information reaching us Indicates that the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) is planning to present staff of office to Alh. Awal Musa Ijakoro as Sarkin Bwari on the 27th of August 2022.

We the youths of Bwari Area Council Chiefdom want to again remind FCTA and to also inform the general public of the implications of such act if not aborted.

The name Bwari is a coinage of Bwaya and Bwari as a town is predominantly the ancestral home of the Gbagyis and the Gbagyis alone with an existing traditional institution since inception known as SABWAYA (ESU BWARI) and *HRH (Dr.) Ibrahim Yaro* is presently the Chief custodian of this institution and the 17th Esu of Bwari.

The self acclaimed title Sarkin Bwari erroneously came into existence just in 1997 during the upgrading of Chiefs in FCT and since then Bwari residents leave in tension as this has always brought about instability in Bwari town.  

Alh. Awal Musa *Ijakoro* who happens to be the claimed 2nd Sarkin Bwari is a Koro man from *Ijakoro* of Niger state which is also evident in his name.

Bwari Area Council as a Local Government has indigenous Koro people who are found in a part of Kawu, Shere and Dutse Alhaji, we want to clearly state that if FCTA have special interest in making Alh. Ijakoro a proper king by presenting staff of office to him should be given to him with a nomenclature of either Sarkin Kawu, Sarkin Shere or Sarkin Dutse Alhaji or Sarkin Koro where his fellow Koro people reside not tampering with Bwari traditional institution that has been in existence for decades.

Bwari Chiefdom chiefs and youths feel threatened, disregarded and robbed as this will Instil generational crisis if not fixed now.

We call on the attention of the general public to be in the know of this happenings and to help us pleed with the minister of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to demarcate the jurisdiction of the two kings or Review their intentions of giving Alh. Ijakoro staff of office as Sarkin Bwari before he throws Bwari into an unending Crisis.

The staff of office can be given to him only after they have given him his jurisdiction to rule over. Since he is Koro, the koro's should be given a chiefdom for him to govern, which will just go with change of nomenclature as earlier suggested. They should leave our Bwari for us, Bwari is for the Gbagyis and Koro traditions differs from that of the Gbagyis.

Various letters have been written by government recognized council of Chiefs of Bwari Area Council and all the government recognized chiefdoms youth leaders to minister's office, FCT Senator, house of rep, Chairman and all security agencies. It's still seems all the lamentation fell upon deaf ears 

 Theophilus Noah Baba

Spokesperson Bwari Youth Development Association for Bwari Area Council Chiefdom youths.