{"id":87635,"date":"2021-10-27T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T06:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=87635"},"modified":"2021-10-27T07:41:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T06:41:38","slug":"impersonation-oba-of-benin-bans-ex-chief-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/impersonation-oba-of-benin-bans-ex-chief-servant\/","title":{"rendered":"Impersonation: Oba Of Benin Bans Ex-Chief Servant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m15460\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, has banned one Roland Ogbebor, a former Omuada (chief servant) to his Royal Majesty for alleged impersonation of the palace and other \u201csacrilegious acts.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal \">\n<div class=\"clear\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">His ban follows an alleged installation of Enogie, Ohen and Okao in the Benin kingdom after he was relieved of his position by His Royal Majesty in 2018.He was said to have also been involved in land grabbing, extortion, intimidation, impersonation and fraud since he was suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Reading a prepared statement in Benin on Tuesday to announce the formal banning of the Omuada on behalf of the Benin Monarch, Mr. Frank Irabor, Secretary, Benin Traditional Council, BTC, disclosed that the ban is \u201cextended to his participation at all Oba Palace traditional establishments and functions, including spiritual groups, activities, festivals, shrines and, oguedion in Benin Kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Irabor, since his suspension as the Omuada, Ogbebor has been acting \u201cas a wolf in sheep clothing and confidence trickster\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irabor, who was flanked by prominent Benin chiefs in solidarity at the briefing, noted that the formal Omuada was also involved in what he described as \u201cabominable and sacrilegious\u201d act of parading himself as the second in command to His Royal Majesty.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, has banned one Roland Ogbebor, a former Omuada (chief servant) to his Royal Majesty for alleged impersonation of the palace and other \u201csacrilegious acts.\u201d&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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