I didn’t pay Chinese for illegal mining – Ooni

From  Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo
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Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, has debunked the content of a circulated video, saying he paid a large sum of money to some Chinese nationals to carry out some illegal mining activities .

The monarch debunked this in a statement signed by his Director of Media and Public Affairs, Moses Olafare, and made available to newsmen.

In the video, a group of people, led by someone who claimed to have come from Ibadan to farm on the land, alleged that the Ooni had paid a large sum of money to some Chinese nationals to carry out some illegal mining activities on the said land.

However, the Ooni, refuted the claims in the “stage-managed video”, stating that the “so-called Chinese were not in any way representing the Ooni’

“We hereby reject in its entirety the malicious amateur video report mischievously released to the social media platforms with uninvestigated allegations against the Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II linking him to the destructions of farmlands by some Chinese nationals as allegations of such magnitude should have been logically investigated before being released to the public,” the statement stated.

The statement described, as malicious and mischievous, those who linked the Chinese to the respected Palace of Ife without carrying out a thorough investigation of the matter.