The leadership and membership of the Yoruba Community and Descendants Union of Liberia, which passed a vote of no confidence in its King, Bola Ogunkoya, for several allegations levied against him, have resolved on a motion of his dethronement.
A recent meeting held at the Monrovia Demonstration School on Clay Street, which was well attended so that King Ogunkoty could clear himself from the allegations levied against him, resulted in members jiltering and going home with frowned faces.
Before the meeting, King Ogunkoya wrote a letter of apology to the organization to pardon him and that he may appear before the body to clear his side, according to the secretary of the Judiciary and Disciplinarian Committee.
However, to the disappointment of the group, King Ogunkoya, whom everyone wished to see, told the presiding that while he was in a divine worship service he fell off, was rushed to the hospital and doctor advised him not to come. He therefore did not attend the meeting. The news caused a stir and people to jilter about his antics.
According to the Yoruba Descendants Union, “We express our shock, displeasure and condemnation of the unacceptable act of gross misconduct, immoral act on female members of the union, forgery and financial misappropriation exhibited by King Ogunkoya, the head of Yoruba Kingdom in Liberia.”
The organization’s President, Matthew Makinde, said that their king refused to accept their letter after he had given them the instruction to carry the letter there at the time of complaint.
“The people agreed and carried the letter to his house the following day, but to their surprise he rejected the letter,” he said.
The group accused him of spiritual attack he inflicted on some members of the community, which has left some of the people still on sick bed; immoral acts and sexual harassment perpetrated against the female members of the organization; no accountability since he assumed office and started celebrating “Oodua Day” in Liberia; gross misconduct; forging the letterhead and log of the Yoruba Community and using the same forged documents to write a fake letter of recognition to the Nigerian community and the Nigerian Embassy in Liberia.
King Ogunkoya has turned over the gavel of authority to the group but is still summoned before the body to clear his side concerning the allegations levied against him, according Victoria Isaiah, one of the prominence women of the organization.
“We have resolved on his dethronement motion and want him to be present so that we can prove it to him,” the group’s secretary for Judiciary Committee said.