Ìrìnàjò mi sí ìlú àwon òkú

…….OKÒ OJÚ OMI DÀNÙ , ÈMÍ S’ÒFÒ

……….MO BÓ S’ÓMI SÙRÀ!

………MO PÀDÉ ÀRÒGÌDÌGBÀ NÍ ÌSÀLÈ OMI

………MO RÍ BÀBÁ ÀTI ÌYÁ MI

…….MO SE ALÁBÁPÀDÉ  ÀWON  TÍ Ó TI KÚ NI IGBA ODÚN SÉHÌN

Nígbàti mo dé èbúté BoN mo k’áwó l’órí, mo sunkún kíkórò

OKÒ OJÚ OMI DÀNÙ , ÈMÍ S’ÒFÒ

      BÍ  rédíò  èro  asòròmágbèsì   náà  ti ka ìròhìn agogo mérin ìyáléta tán , igbé ta!. Gbogbo àdúgbò kan gógó. Òfò ńlá ló sè yìí. Òrò di bi o kò lo yàgò fún mi. Àwon tí wón ní  ará , ebí àti ojúlùmò  ti o rin ìrìn àjò l’órí omi nsare kíjo kíjo o di èbúté BoN l’ati mò bóyá wón ní ènìyàn nínú àwon ti ìjàmbá náà se. Béèni wón ńpe    ènìyàn   won l’áago àgbéléwó fóònù . Ojó náà ni mo rí orísirísi  àgbéléwó fóònù bí Taná s’óbè,  Bótìnì, Pèmípadà, Owó ńro mi, Bólugi, Gbéfìlà, Gbéborùn. Ńje ìròhìn  wo  ni Oníròhìn  kà?  Oniròhìn kàá  bayi:  ” Ní òwúrò kùtùkùtù òní ìròhìn tè wá l’ówó pé  okò ojú omi   ti o ńbò l’áti  èbúté T Bobo  ti o n’lo èbúté BoN  ti o kó ogójì ènìyàn àti òpòlópò   dúkìá  d’ànù sí  agbami. Ìsèlè ńlá yi sè ni agogo méwàá òwúrò. A óò ma fi ……” .

       Nígbàti mo gbó ìròhìn yi   inú mi bàjé gidigidi. Okàn mi gbogbé. Ìbànújé so orí mi k’odò . Mo la enu s’ílè bi eni ti a puró làntì lanti mó . Kinla! , mo kígbe. Ńkò t’ilè jé ki Oníròhìn kàá tán. Báyìí ni mo múra  láti lo si   èbúté BoN.  Mo sèbí bí   isé kò bá  pé ni a kìí pe isé . Mo pe íyàwó mi ,Fèróníkà pé  àsìkò tó  lati b’áwon  se ètùtù    pa eja ńlá ti won ńpè ni  erinmilokun  ( Whale)  ti o ńda okò ojú omi wa nù ti o si ńgba òpòlópò èmí ènìyàn nígbà gbogbo .

       À séè o ye kí a má  fura , nítórí  ìfura l’òògùn àgbà  . Mo s’èbí páńsa kò fura ló fi  já  s’íná , àjà kò fura ló  fi jìn .Èmi kò fura rárá. Àní o ye ki a máa  béèrè bi ònà yióò ti ri ki à si  tun máá fi  Olúwa sáájú . Mo se àfojúdi . Mo se àsejù, àsejù sì ni baba àseté.  Òré mi mo se àsejù mo si té bi èsúúrú ti  se àsejù ti o si té l’ówó oníyán. Béèni mo té!. Sùgbón èbi mi kó nítorípé   oò te ara re nífá,  òmòràn kò ní fi ara rè joyè béè si ni abe kò lè mú títí ki o   gbé èkù ara rè.  Èmi kò bèrè ,se bi abèrè ònà kìí sìnà. Sèbí  bi òní se ri òla kò ri béè   lo ńmú kí  Babaláwo máa  d’ífá oroorún  sùgbón òrò ti yípadà kìíse oroórún mó sùgbón  l’ojójúmó ni nísisìyí. Sùgbón mo ti ń’jáde lo nkò le padà s’ílé mo , sèbí bi itó bá balè  kii padà sénu mó , ó sèèwò  . Mo  ko ìpàkó s’éhìn , mo k’ojú síwájú bi òkú Ìmàle  mo sèbí bí Mùsùlùmí òdodo bá kú Kiblah là ńkojú òkú rèé si , mo kojú sí ibi ti mò ńlo o jàre.  Jíjáde  mi kúrò níle  a séè bi mo se máa  lo àjò àrèmábò nìyen. Àséè  lílo mi  ìkehìn nìyen . Àséè àlo rámi rámi là ńri a kìí rí àbò rè. Àséè ohun ti ńbe léhìn èfà  ju òje lo . Àséè rírò ni t’ènìyàn síse ni t’Olórun  Oba . Ohun ti mo l’érò òtò sùgbón ohun tí mo bá l’óhún òtò mà ni o. L’éhìn ti mo rí eja mélo kan pa mo tèlé àwon aláwo láti se ètùtù.   

             

         MO BÓ S’ÓMI  SÙRÀ 

 Sè bí mo mòó tán , mo mòó tán ni orò fi ńgbé okùnrin  lo. Bi  a  ti    parí ètùtù tán ni a wo okò ojú omi kékeré padà si èbúté  .Bí  mo se  ńjáde kúrò nínú okò   ni esè mi  ńyò   , mo bèrè si ńdura  . Mo fi owó méjèjì mú okùn ti a so mó okò ojú omi dání. Bí àwon kan se ńgbìyànjú láti yo mí kúrò ni mo sàkíyèsí pé àwon kan ńfà mi láti ìsàlè omi béè èmi kò rí won. Ìka àtànpàkò ati  ìfábeèlá mi bèrè si se èjè níbi ti mo ti di okùn mú. Àsé bi ará ayé se ńpe ni  náà ni ará  òrun ńpe ni bí olókùnrùn ati arúgbó  sùgbón àdúrà ká  pé l’órí eèpè là   ńgbà . Òràn mi wáá  dàbí ti olókùnrùn ti ńwo àjùlé òrun òun ayé l’óòkan. Wàhálà dé, ìdààmú ba mi .Háà se oun ti ojú ńwá l’ójú ńrí . Sùrà ni owó mi j’ábó ti mo subú sínú omi .Mo dura , mo jà pìtìpìtì , mo mú  ìfòófò ojú omi ati omi d’áni àséè nkò lè gbá  won  mú. Dòòòòòò ni mò ńlo ìsàlè. Sùgbón bí mo se ńlo ìsàlè  omi mo ríi pe aso mi kò tutù, o  si dàbí ìgbàtí  éńjìnì èro òyìnbó (lift) ti ńgbé ènìyàn lò si òkè tabi ìsàlè.

MO PÀDÉ ÀRÒGÌDÌGBÀ NÍ ÌSÀLÈ OMI

Mo pàdé àrògìdìgbà ní isàlè omi

Nígbàti mo dé ìsàlè omi  mo rí obìnrin rògbòdò kan ti irun orí rè ńdán bi wúrà ti  ìrù   fàdákà  eja wà ni ídí  rè .Ojú obìnrin náà ńdán mórán mórán bi góòlù ti a sèsè yo  kúrò nínú iná alágbède .Bí  mo ti rii ni  ara mi ńgbòn,enu mi ro, jìnnì jìnnì bò mi, ara mi ségìrì mo se èyó sara  , díè ló sì kù kí ìgbònsè j’ábó ni ìdí mi. Orí mi wú  béèni  mo sì gan pa bi eni ti iná èlétíríkì  mú.

Sùgbón rírí ti o rí mi o fi mí l’ókàn balè. Nígbà náà ni ara mi wáá balè , okàn mi si tutù bí omi àmù .Inú èmi náà wáá ńdùn sèsè  bi ení  je  tété. Kíákíá mo ti ńronú  bi ngò se bá omobìnrin  náà sòrò ìfé . Háà òmùtí gbàgbé ìsé . Mo ńyò sèsè mo di aláìnírònú ará Galátíà. Mo di òbo ti o  ri ògèdè  ti o  ńfò fèrè.  Nkò rántí ibi tí mo  ti ńbò ati ibi ti mo  wà mó. Mo ńwo obìnrin yi tèrín tèrín , inú mi ńdùn, mo ti ńtò sára . Mo  ńfi ojú inú ńwo bi ngò  ti ba  se erée  yùnké yùnké . Sùgbón nígbàtí  mo rańtí ìrù fàdákà eja ìdí rè ti o ńyí lo sí òtún ati sí  òsì , nse ni nkan omokùnrin mi ti ńmì làgà lógó l’ábé aso  dúró jééé. Ìtìjú muu, ara rè balè ,ó  wò sììn  bi obè páànù. O wá súnkì  bi òkùn.  Háàà ìbèrù b’ojo mú kiní òhún  ti o fi orí jo  ejò lai tíì fi ojú kàànn. Àséè ojú inú wà lóòtó, ojú inú rírán ju  ojú òde lo. Ìtìjú bá omokùnrin mi  o sì s’áwolé lo.

MO RÍ BÀBÁ ÀTI ÌYÁ MI TI WÓN TI KÚ

Obìnrin  àrògìdìgbà yi wò mi , o sì bú s’érín nígbàti o mo èrò okàn mi, o si    wipe ” Bàbá re, Jóshúà  wa níbí. Ìyá re, Oládoyin si wà níhàhín  ti won  ńdókewè” .  Ó fùn mi ni aso kan ,o ni  ” wo   èwù yi ki o sì ko  iwájú rè si èhìn, pe orukó Bàbá re  léèméta , máse pèé ni ‘Bàbá ,tabi  ‘ìyá  tàbi ‘bùròdá’ tabi  ‘àntí’ bi o bá rí Bàbá  ati Ìyá re jòwó máse dì  wón mú. Bá won sòrò ” . Bi o se so bayi ni o sí  ilèkùn yàrá kan  mo si nwo imole niwaju mi , mo wo    inú rè lo, béè ni mo bá ara mi nínu ilé nla dídán náà ti a fi góòlù iyebíyè se òsó rè.

Mo ńwo  ìmólè níwájú mi , mo wo ilé nla dídán náà ti a fi góòlù iyebíyè se òsó rè

Ni ojú  ònà jìnnì jìnnì tún  bò mi, àyà  mi já , orí mi si wúwo  nígbàti  mo ri òpòlópò àwon ènìyàn ti wón ti kú ni igba odún séhìn. Mo dá àwon kan  mò, àwon tí ńkò dá mò si dá mi mò sùgbón won kò fi owó  kàn mi béèni ńkò jéé dáa l’ábàá l’áti fi owó tó won . Nwón nwá si òdò mi l’ókòòkan l’áti bá mi sòrò àti l’áti rán mi si àwon ènìyàn won ni ilè alààyè.

Ìwo  ònkàwéè mi yi mo rí àwon òbí re méjèjì níbè  béè ni  àwon Oba lé ní àádóta ti mo rí nínú aso oyè won . Ngò ò maa d’árúko won nínú ìwé mi ti o ńbò l’ónà.

Wéré ti  mo ri  Bàbá mi mo pèé” Bàbá! Bàbá!!” Sùgbón ko dá mi l’óhùn . Nígbàti mo dúró  fun  iséjú méédógún  ni mo  wa  rántí pe awon òbí mi ti kú. Sèbí àwon ni  àwon Akorin ko orin” L’òwùro Òjo Ajinde, t’ara t’okàn yoo pàdé …A wón ti gún s’ébúté l’ókè Òrun l’ókè òrun , ebi kò ni pa wón mo…Jèrúsálem t’Orùn, òrun mi ìlú mi ….” fún l’ódún náà l’óhùún. Sèbí  ité  ìsìnkú si ni St. Patrick’s Anglican  Church Ìjèbú -Òwò ni a sin won si .Mo tun ranti pe Àlùfáà se ‘eruku fún eruku, iyèpè fun iyèpè’ ni ibojì won nígbàti a dágbéré fun won pe ó dìgbóse.

Mo rántí pe mo gbéra sánlè l’ójó náà l’óhùn nígbàti wón ńwá erùpè bo àwon méjèjì m’ólè , b’áwo ni wón se wa se dé  isàlè omi? .Sé ànjònú ni wón ni tàbí mo ńlá àlá?. Orísirísi èrò lo wá sí okàn mi . Mo rántí pé o ti tó odún métàdínlógójì àti márùndínlógún tí àwon méjèjì ti papòdà tí wón si ti fi ilè bora bí aso .Sèbí  won a ti di egungun wóngan wòngan. Gbogbo egungun won á ti funfun ìyen ti àwon olóríburúkú asètùtù olà kó bá tíì lo kó won níbi ité .Sèbí ohun ti àwon  òpònú ati òle òdó aláìnírònú ti wón   fé ni  owó òjijì ńse l’ásìko yi ni, sèbí awon Babaláwo ìkà òun  èké lo ńrán won.

Egungun àwon òbí mi  ti di  funfun

Sùgbón mo rańtí pé  abàmì  obìnrin ìsàlè odò yi so pé  ki ńpe àwon òbí mi l’órúko. Háà èèwò , àrífín ńlá ki npe  àwon òbí mi l’órúko ?.Mo rántí esè ìwé Bíbélì to so pé ” Bòwò fún  Bàbá ati Ìyá re kí ojó re lè pé l’órí ilè ti Olúwa Olórun re  fi fun e”. Mo tún rántí olórin Oba Jùjú  Sunny Ade   tó  k’orin  pé Bàbá kò se é pààrò beni ìyá ko se é pààrò , tàbí wón pààrò won fún mi ni? .Sùgbón mo wáá rójú dájú, sè bí òdájú la fi ńwe egbò  bi béèkó egbò kò ni jiná. Mo wá a dárúko lé Bàbá mi lórí, àni mo la orúko móó l’órí ,  mo sì  pèé ”Jóshúà! , Jóshúà!! , Jóshúà!!! léèméta. Léhìn èyí ni mo ri Okùnrin arúgbó kùjèkuje kan ti kò ga tí kò sì kúrú nínú aso  kóòtù ati táì  orùn rè. Mo sì ríi ti o pá l’órí  ,  o fi  díngí   sójú, pèlù òpá ìtìlè rè ti o mú dání o si pè mi ”Taiwo! ,Taiwo!! kí lo wa se níbí?”.  Léhìn èyí ni o kojú sí mi ti o wí pé ”Omo mi l’áti odún métàdínlógójì ni mo ti kúrò n’ílé ayé. Isé ti mo ńse ni ìgbà aiyé mi náà ni mo nse níbí bi Post master . Gbogbo létà ti wón ńfi ránsé si ilè alààyè l’áti òdò mi ni wón ti ńrà sítámpù rè. Jé kí ńso fún e , bí wón se ńse l’áiyé ni won ńse l’órun ”

    Bàbá mi sòòrò    o  si fún mi ni èbùn  ó  ni ”Jòwó  máse kó egbé kégbé , máse mu otí àmupara  .Sóra fún  òré . Gba òrùka  yìi, nígbà kígbà ti o bá n’jáde n’ílé ni ki o fi sówó ,enìkéni ti o ba ńbínú re yìóò yónú si e .

           

 Bàbá  mi  ńbá mi sòrò,mo sì gbówó l’érán

”Sèbí ètùtù   ìyónú ni ewúré se ti o  ńfi ara ńnu olóde n’ílé . Sèbí  ètùtù ìyónú ni adìye se  ti o fi ńda ètù ìbon olóde nù n’ílé, sùgbón àpárò ati ìgalà kò lati se ètùtù  ìyónú  ti Babaláwo ni ki wón se l’ójó náà l’óhún  ni wón fi di  òtá  olóde  títí  di òní olónìí ” . 

   Bi Bàbá mi se ju òrùka náà si mi  ni mo pa gúúrú  sii ti mo  féé dì móó béè  ni o pòórá ,  ti ńkò ríi mó .Ìjì  ńlá kan bèrè si   jà ,léhìn eyi ni mo n’gbóhùn rè ti o wipe ”. Èèwò , àgbedò, máse dánnwò .  Báwo lo se fé dì mo mi?. Mo ti di aféfé, nítorí  nkò fe ki o fi owó kàn mi. Èmi ati ìyá re ti di ewúré jeléjelé a si  ti di àgùtàn jemòjemò ,  a si ti di òrìsà àkúnlèbo. Wo òòkán re ìwo yi o ri ìyá re níbè  o dàbò”.

Báyìí ni mo sun ekún kíkórò . Mo ké lohùn rárá pé  ” Bàbá  mi tòòtó, Bàbá  mi aiyé , Bàbá  mi òrun, Bàbá  olomo ti ko gbódò sùn .Sé bi o se máa wò mi níran rèé?. Ìyà njé mi . Àwon ìkà ènìyàn  ńlépa èmí mi nitori mo ńko nípa Olóyè ńlá kan ti àwon asekúpani fi èmi re dá ègbodò ni ilú BoN. ” . Sèbí Yorùbá bo won ni Okùnrin kìí  ké , ako igi kii s’oje, Okùnrin ké l’ojó náà l’óhùn , ako igi si se oje!

. Tekún tekún ni mo  fi mú òrùka náà ti  Bàbá mi  fún mi l’ójó náà l’óhún. Ikun imú mi ńdà .Omíjé ojú mi si nsàn bi isun omi . Ojú mi wú tepele bí eni agbón ta. Òrùka náà  wà l’ówó mi títí di òní olóníi .Ìwo ònkàwéè mi  ngóò  fi hàn ó  l’ójó ti mo bá fi òrùka náà  si ìka owó mi …..               ( Excerpts from my coming book)

Bàbá mi Jóshúà  Adépòjù Abíódún  ta téru nipa  ni 31-12-85. Ìyá mi  Caroline Oládoyin Abíódún si  je Olorun nipe ni 16-10-2007

 

Bàbá mi Jóshúà  Adépòjù Abíódún (JP)  papoda  ni 31-12-85. Ìyá mi  Caroline Oládoyin Abíódún sun ninu Oluwa ni 16-10-2007

Ògbólóògbó olè ni mí télè

   

    ……Ògbólóògbó olè ni mí télè

    ……Mo dá  omo mi l’ónà

   …… Olóògùn háúnháún ni Bàbá mi

    ……Nnkan méjì l’obìnrin mò

  Bàbá àgbàlagbà yi so ìtan  ìgbesí aíyé rè ki o to  jáde l’áyé  l’ósè tó kojá 

KÉKERÉ LA TIÍ ŃPÈKA ÌRÓKÒ

         ”OLÈ ni mí, olè lásán kó o, òfúnàn  jàgùdà páálí bìlísì ni mí.  Mo ní a lo k’ólóhun k’ígbe ni mò ńńse . Àní sé gbéwiri l’èmi, mo wā di ògbólóògbó ìgáárá olósà títí mo fi dàgbà . Mo bèrè n’íbi à ńyó eran obè je nínú ìkòkò ìsasùn. Fífi ayédèrú kókóró sí àpótí ìfowópamó  . Mo nlo Bárékè  śójà lati j’alè. Mo   ńjí sálúbàtà nínú Mósálási  ni Ìdúmòtà .Mo ti jí owó Àfáà n’íbi tí wón ti ń’se súná omo tuntun l’órí pápá bóòlù ìseré Sùúrulérè, ni Èkó. Ni Sòósì, ilé ìjósìn Olórun ti o wà ni  Yábá pàápàá mo ti ji owó igbá s’álo rí. S’èbí èmi ni mo kó owó ojú ebo lo ni’joun pèlu owó eyo ni oríta méta l’Ójóta .Ni roundabout Mókólá ,Ìbàdàn mo  fi adìye ti won fi ru  ebo pèlú epo pupa ti a dà le l’órí s’ebè ata díndín. Kai!  àfowórá mi pò ki nmá puró. Nínúu Móòluè l’Èkó n’kò kìí san owó okò, n’go sì tún yo owó l’ápò àwon ará inu okò móòlùè , ngóò sì tún máa bá won kédùn. Mo mà j’alè sáyé ò. Sùgbón olè pépèpé ni o.

”Sùgbón sá o isé ti a kò gbódò fi yangàn l’áwùjo ni. Aní se isé ti a kò gbódò gbàá l’ádúrà fi lé omo l’ówó ni. À ní sé isé àbùkù ni. Isé ìtìjú ni pèlú. Sùgbón o ni l’áti gbóyà bii kìnìún ki o si yára bi àsá ninu olè jíjà.  Béè nínú isé a lo k’ólóhun kígbe yìí mo dúpé pé mo ti fi da nnkan rere gbé se láyé  .Tàbí kí le ní kí nwí o jàre?. Isé sáà ni isé nje. Tàbí e rò pe ó r’orùn l’ati j’alè ni?. Mo ti fo ìgànná ti àfókù ìgò ya àwòrán si mi l’ára  yánma yànma  ti èjè si ntú jáde bi omi  èro . Mo ti fi orí ko Ilé agbón ti agbón si t’amí l’áta d’ákú. Mo ni iná èlétíríkì ti sóòkì mi ri tí  báábù wayà si ti fi ya máápù  Áfíríkà si mi l’ára.    Àní gbogbo ara mi kìkì àpá ni. Nínú olè jíjà yi ni mo ti kó ilé , mo ti fé ìyàwó, àwon omo mi si ti parí Ilé ìwé gíga ti Unifásítì ni ìlú Òyìnbó. Mo sì ti f’ìyàwó f’ómo, mo si f’oko f’ómo, kí ló tún kù?

Táíwò Abíódún l’órí ìrìn àkòròhìn

BÀBÁ MI

   ”Kí n’to bèrè ìtàn mi e jé ki nso n’ipa Bàbá mi: Olóògùn háúnháún ni Bàbá mi íse, ògbólóògbó Babaláwo sì ni pèlú. Olóògùn a jé bí i idán ni nítirè, à ni sé Olóògùn pónbélé ni. Tí ó bá ní kí  òru di òsán béè lo máa rí, bí ó sì ní kí  òsán di òru yì oò ri béè náà ni. Dandan sì ni, kò sí àníàní níbè .

”Àwa méta ni bàbá mi bí l’ómo. Kí ó tó kú ni odún 1970 ni o ti kó mi l’óògùn àféèrí. Aáyán, ìmí ojó, orí ìjímèrè ati ehín oká pèlú awon  èròjà míràn la fi se é. Ó sì tún kó mi ni oògùn ayeta nítorí pé o ńsisé fún àwon jàgùdà  àti àwon òsèlú .Sèbí e rántí Operation Wéètì è àti ogun àgbékòyà?, àwon jàgídíjàgan, àní sé òun ni o n’sín gbéré fún àwon ti wón ń’sisé ìpánle ni ìdíkò okò akérò . Àwon ti Mushin mòó, ti Oshòdì ,Ojóta ati awon ìdíkò ti o l’órúko L’Ékó mòó. Orúko Bàbá mi ni Máyehùn, àwon kóstómà rè lo funn l’órúko ìnàgìje yìì  o.

”Háà! okùnrin méta ni Bàbá mi íse , béè kò ga púpò, à ní díè ló fi ga ju ìgò bíà lo. Háà lóòtó ni pé ènìyàn kúkurú bìlísì ni , baba nlá bìlísì ni Bàbá mi īse. O gbówó. O ni òrùka ère, ìgbàdí , ewé njé .Kíni kò ní tán ?. Sèbí orísirísi orí là  ńbá ní ìté òkú, orí gbígbe , orí tútù, orí omodé, orí àgbàlágbà  ,orí obìnrin, orí okùnrin , à ni sé Bàbá mi ni oògùn l’ówó, nse lo máa npe òkú s’eré tí ó sì nran won n’ísé. Mo gbédí fún Bàbá mi l’órun.

”Sé eni máa  bá Èsù jeun síbí rè a gùn. Nígbàtí Bàbá mi kú mo sá’ré lo kó àwon oògùn rè níbi ti o ko won   sí. Sè bi eni bá y’áwó l’ògún ńgbè ,mo tètè  ko won  kí ó tó di àwátì .Emi kò kúkú jéri enìkànkan nínú àwa omo rè. Àwon Aláwo egbé rè  l’ó wá s’ìnkú rè  l’ójó kéta  ti o ti papòdà   l’éhìn òpòlópò  ètùtù ati ebo.

MO DI OLÈ

   ”Láì fa  òrò gùn lo títí  mo di adigunjalè mo nnlo àféèrí , mo di ògbólóògbò olè, à ni mo di olè háúnháún. Léhìn osù méta owó dé, mo  ra okò ayókélé Mésídíìsì , mo fé ìyàwó tuntun ,mo si kó ilé . Ko si ápèje ti n’kò kìí lo. Mo si nnawo  bi elédà níbi ti mo ba lo. Mò nnse gbajúmò l’ósán alo k’ólóun k’ígbe l’óru. Ni òru n’go di  ìhámóra bi eni ti ń’lo ojú ogun sùgbón l’ósán èèyàn gidi ni mi pèlú èrín èye oun òyàyà l’énu. Háà! mo di èrù jèjè ajámoláyà ,eni à ńsá fún l’óru. Mo di ògbóntarìgì olè.

 

NNKAN MÉJÌ L’OBÌNRIN MÒ

    ”Òré mi pò jántírere, àmó sá ìyàwó mi kò mo isé tí mò nse, eléèha ni , mo háa. Nkò se ni háa? Àwon obìnrin onítòkítò, wón le sòrò jù òrò fúnra rè lo. Káì  mo tètè gbón , mo so o di Eléha. S’ebí owó l’obínrín mò, nígbàtí mo  nse ojúse mi n’ílé ,owó n’ìkan kó o, nkò fi oorun dùnn. Nnkan méjì l’obìnrin mò: agogo abé okùnrin  ati owó àpèkánukò. Òun náà ńse ojúse rè fun àwon ebí tírè , kí ló tún kù? .E fìyen s’ílè o jàre. Mo háa .Èyin ònkàwéè mi e kò rìì pe inú jìn?. Háà , inú  mà jìn o.

   ISÉ MI

       ”Mo jéjé  pe  n’go jáwó nínú isé olè jíjà  nígbà ti mo bá ti ri  owó tó tó mílíónì méjì  náírà .L’óòótó mo rí to mílíónì méta mo sì jáwó sùgbón a jí ede je kò jí òkan  ró. Kàkà kí nyíwàpadà mo tún tera móó. Sèbí  kàkà kí ewe àgbon dè, pipélé lo ńpélé sii. Mo padà sí èebì mi bí ajá.

ISÉ ÌKÉHÌN

      Ni agogo méjì òru ojó kan èmi ati àwon adigunjalè egbé  mi lo j’alè ni  òna márosè Lagos/ Ìbàdàn    a si ri okò ayókélé ti o ńbò pèlú obìnrin kan nínú rè. Mo fi gàte mi b’ojú, kíá a ti dá okò dúró, a sì ní  kí wón s’òkalè. Ni ìséjù akàn gbogbo nkan inú mótò náà ni a kó ni  àkótán. Okùnrin náà sòréndà ara rè mo si gba owo tàbùà tabua l’ówó rè . Sùgbón nígbàti mo nsoro l’ówó omokùnrin yìí nké tan tan ó sì ńlo agídí béè emi kò dáa l’óhùn. Àwon dánàdánà egbé mi sì bú s’érín .Èmi náà  ríi  pé  ohùn arákùnrin yii jo eni mímò sùgbón nkò lè f’ohùn. Kíni ká ti gbó  pe mo dáa l’ónà?, òràn ti di isó inú èkú ,àmúmóra ni. Nígbàti o kókó fé lo agídí a féé fi ìbon tú orí rè ká bi olóde se nfi ìbon tú ori ìkòokò  ati ìtùukù l’óko sùgbón n’go  tun pètù fún àwon ìgárá olósà egbé mi pe ki a m’áse ta èjè sílè.

ÀKÀRÀ TÚ S’ÉPO

     ”L’ójó kéta ni mo wá s’íle, mo  bá omo mi ti o se àlàyé bi àwon  olè se dá won l’ónà Eko si Ibadan  nígbàti oun ńbò l’ati wa fi ìyàwó àfésónà rè hàn mi .Mo se aájò rè púpò púpò. Mo si bá arábìnrin rè kédùn gidigidi. Sùgbón kini kan s’elè l’ójó kejì.

Ni alé ojó kejì  Àmòké ti íse àfésóna omo mi , Akin fe lo se ìgbónsè l’óru ni mo ba fún ni iná  ìléwó àtètàn (torchlight) , o gbàá o si lo si ilé ìgbónsè sùgbón kò dáá pádà. Ni ojó kejì o tún so pé oun fé se gaa mo bérè l’ówó rè pé  àtètàn àná nbe l’ówó rè , sùgbón o fi gbígbó se aláìgbó.

 Kò pé  tì mo dé  òdò aláìsàn tí mo lo ki ni ilé ìwòsàn nìgbàtí àwon olópá méta wá  pèlú sékésekè esè , ati máámu gààrí l’ówó tí wón wa  sí òdo òré mi ti won ńbérè  òrò l’ówó rè ,ká tó  wí ká to fò, mo ti pòórá. Èmi kò fe ki enìkéni wá k’óbá mi o jàre. Mo n’pòsé sere bí ejò , mo wónú okò mo yára kúrò nítòsí ibè .Mo ńbá ara mi s’òrò nínú mótò pé olòsì l’àwon ti o lo ta àwon olópá l’ólobó. Èèwò a kì i rí iná ní kànga béèni a ki i rí isó mú . Abéré  á lo kí  òna okùn tó dí.

    ÀSÍRÍ TÚ, ÀKÀRÀ TÚ S’ÉPO

Ni agogo méta òru ni omo mi jí mi ti o gbé mi k’alè ti o ńbérè òrò báyìí ”Bàbá mi kíni dé ti e kò jáwó nínú ìwà  adigunjalè ti e ti ńse bò l’ójó pípé?. Èmi ko le so bi ìtìjú yín à ti ti ebí wa i báá ti pò to ti wón ba mu yin mo awon olè l’ójósí” .Bi o se nsòrò ni mo nfi agídí ti káfíntà fi ńyo ìsó ti mo gbaa l’énu rè pe ”èmi n’jalè? Tútó rè dànù. Níbo l’o ti ri èmi?. Àrífín ilé ìyàgbé .Irú kìní òrò burúkú kòbákùngbé wo lo n’so l’énu yìí? .Síòo re . Òrò ègbin oníyòrò, òrò òsì. Emi yí óò ta àse fún e bi o ba tún tú òrò rírùn bi isó yi so”. Báyìí ni mo se so ti  òun náà dáhùn pé ” Bàbá mi e ni sùúrù”. Ó sì  yo fìlà , àtùpà àtètàn l’ówó ati owó j’áde. o ni ” Bàbá mi eyin ni e dá èmi àti ìyàwo àfésóná mi  l’ónà ti fìlà yin bó sínú búùtù okò mi, fìlà naa rèé. Àtùpà àtètàn yi le mú nínú mótò mi n’ígbà tí e da èmi ati ìyàwó mi l’ónà , orúko mi rèe l’ára rè. Aso ti e wò e kò kó won wá’le. È sì gbàgbé pe ‘Kòkòrikò le ńpe òré yin ti oun naa npe yin ni Ìkòokò .Ara owó ti e gbà l’ówó mi ni e fún ìyàwó  mi ko fi ra nkan èlò obè ,ti e ba wòó dáradára e óò  rí àmì ìsàmì orúko mi l’ára  rè. Gbogbo rè ni a kó pamó ti e kò mò. Mo si be ìyàwó àfésónà mi ki o s’enu ni ménú. Mo s’èbí ilé eni l’ati ńje èkúté onídodo. Nígbàti ti e lo j’alè pélú òre yin ni ònà Òrè ni ìbon báá. Òré yin  náà ni  e lo kí ní  ilé ìwòsàn ni àná .Òré  yin si ti so fún àwon agbófinró nígbàti e kúro l’ódo rè  tán pe ara yin ni wón nítori náà kí e tètè kúrò ni ilé lo f’ara pamó síbi kan”

Nígbà ti mo gbó òrò yii, jìnnìjìnnì bò mi, ára mí ko l’élè mó. Òógùn bò mi, ara mi tutù bí  omi àìisì wotà !. Mò sì  n’làágùn fòò l’ábée  fáánu ti mo wà  béè  si ni  igbé gbígbóná ngbòn mi, ìto t’ile j’ábó ni abé mi l’óru ojó nā tí sòkòtò mi si tútù l’ojó naa l’óhūn.

Tani irú rè maa se ki o ma di dìndìnrìn?.Mo di òdè. Mo ńwí bótobòto. Òrò mi kò jora won mo .Kai ! , àsírí tú, àkàrà tú s’épo. Èté  mi de. Mo r’onú títí béè èmi ko l’émí lati gbé  májèlé je. Èmi kò le yìnbon funra mi je. L’òrú ojó náà ni mo gbà ona Bìní  lo. Ibè ni mo wà títí ti wón fi fi èhìn òré mi ti àgbá, beeni k’èhìn s’ókun ni won ńse l’ójó náà l’ohun”

ÌRONÚPÌWÀDÀ

   ” Mo ti jáwó nínú gbogbo ìwà wònyí. Mo wá lo kó isé Molémolé   ti won ńpè ni Bíríkìlà. Gbogbo àwon omo mi ni o n’ísé l’ówó a fi òkan nínu won ti o féé  fi ìwà jo mi, s’èbí eni bí ni l’a ńjo. Sùgbón ki èsan to ké lé mi l’órí mo ti ke  gbàjawìrì s’íta pé kí  omo àbíkéhìn  m’áse da l’ásà pe oun féé jo mi .

”Mo ti dàgbà , mo ti le l’ogórin odun, opélópé  pé kò si àwòrán fótò nígbà náà l’óhūn, kò sí sí àkosílè fun awon olópa ati èro ayára bi àsá (internet) bi béè kó oká i ba ti fo. Nísisìyí  mo  ti di Pásítò ,mo ńkéde ìwàásù kiri. L’ójó Òsè n’go kó èwu Pásítò wò , n’go máá wàásù ihìnrere ati ìpadàbo Jéésù l’ori àga ìwàáasù”.

Táíwò Abíódún l’órí ìrìn àkòròhìn

‘E jòwó nse  ni kí e paáŕé tí e bá ti gba ohùn mi sílè tán nítorí àwon kan yí óò dá ohùn mi mò”, ni òrò tí  Okùnrin yi tè mó wa l’étí.Okùnrin naa ti ta t’éru n’ipa ni  òsè  to k’oja .A fi oruko bòó l’asiri.

Igogo festival without Elerewe………

     

……The rich  who  bails criminals

……. If Elérèwè were ……If Elérèwè were …If…..

……. We keep Lion and goats as pets

…….Owó Epo l’aráiyé ñbá nī ‘la

…….. Vengeance is Mine says the Lord

……….Nigeria  print and electronic media on Elérèwè 

…….His remains still in the morgue

Since December 15, 2021 when the late High Chief Túndé Ìlòrí the Elérèwè of Òwò Kingdom was brutally assassinated  by some gunmen the family of the slain Chief has been  pleading to the  natives to be bold enough    to  help fish out the killers . But if the government cannot fish them out God in His Infinite will not spare them no matter their connections , their jùjú and marabouts. TAIWO ABIODUN writes

Haaa! it is painful and pathetic. It is unthinkable . This is serious and very painful.  O ma se o ,by this time last year Elérèwè did not know that he would not participate in this year’s Igogo festival. By this time last year he was preparing for the festival .By this time last year  he wore  his costumes and danced round the town.  So Elérèwè will not participate in this year’s Igogo festival?. So he would be watching the Igogo from afar off?. No ,not from afar off but   would be watching the festival from the morgue since he has not been buried!. 

Káì! O ma se o .So all the  costumes and paraphernalia of Elérèwè  are gathering dust now? .May God in His infinite declare war on his killers.

     So other   bead-  wearing Chiefs    like him will go out and  wear their  costumes  without  their fallen colleague?. Yes, his death or absence  will not stop anything and will not stop the world from moving on. So everybody is moving on?. Where is our conscience? . So in that Òwò town we don’t know who killed Elérèwè?. So nobody can stick his neck out to fight for the late Chief?. O mà se ò, t’ìre ñbò, t’ìre ñbò n’ikú ñwí . It is Elérèwè  today and it could my own  turn tomorrow , infact it could be  your turn  today or tomorrow . 

Here was a man who  contributed immensely  to the festival and because of him friends and lovers of culture come from Lagos and abroad to watch the festival. He used to slaughter cow every year  to celebrate the festival. Wàláítàlaì e no go better for his killers. His killers will die shameful death. Thunder will strike his killers, olóríburúkú gbogbo. Omo ãlè. The killers’ families will perish in hell fire. Why are we so wicked? . They will get the killers  and it may not be immediate but one day. It is just a matter of time.  

Lover of Culture

 

OWÓ EPO….If….If…..If….

People will  lick your fingers drenched in palm oil but not the fingers with blood( Owó epo l’aráyé ñbá nii la ‘nwon kìí’ bá ni l’áwó èjè) If   Elérèwè had had somebody at the  top …. If Elérèwè had known someone in Aso Rock Villa…. If Elérèwè had been a wealthy Chief ….. . But he had no connections. He was not wealthy. .He had only few trusted  friends .If Elérèwè were  a millionaire ….. If Elérèwè had contacts in high places …..But he had  none of these. Káì! it is all ”Ifs.”

Do you know that those who had hands in his death are being tormented day and night?. They are running from pillar to post.  They are being haunted by the spirit of  Elérèwè . They know themselves. Those who were paid to snuff life out him  have finished the money paid for the assassination and are now suffering alone .  Wàláítàlaì òghon yà sùn má (they cannot sleep any longer).

STORY OF A RICH MAN IN..….

    In our society when a crime is committed they run to the rich who will  use  money to  bury  the case. The rich too have forgotten that  they could be poor by fate later in life (olówó òní lè d’olòsì bo d’òla ). The rich forgot that wealth  is like ocean waves . We know the truth , we see the truth but pretend not to.

A story was  once told  of  a rich man who used his wealth to ”assist” criminals who commit crime  to evade justice . He was so influential that he turned it  into business while human lives became cheap. Criminals were walking free in the public and boasting .While the oppressed  and the poor who could not get justice cried to God to revenge .The rich man was so powerful that no man  had the effrontery to  challenge him in that community . One day at  his old age one of the criminals he once ‘helped’  ran mad and came to his house and killed all his children while his other children living abroad ran mad. The rich man who had harem of wives  could not sleep again as his  seven wives died  within one year. His wealth perished before his very eyes . When he consulted some spiritualists  the  rich man was told that  all the curses laced on those criminals   were on him and his family.

The Yoruba call it Olórun Èsan, (God of vengeance ) Olórun kò bí’mo sùgbón ó bi Èsan ( God has no child but  Vengeance). 

Those who killed Elérèwè , those who plotted  his  assassination and the guys who carried the riffles should come to the open to confess.

 

”A story was  once told  of  a rich man who used his wealth to ”assist” criminals who commit crime  to evade justice . He was so influential that he turned it  into business while human lives became cheap. Criminals were walking free in the public and boasting .While the oppressed  and the poor who could not get justice cried to God to revenge .The rich man was so powerful that no man  had the effrontery to  challenge him in the community. One day at  his old age one of the criminals he once ‘helped’  ran mad and came to his house and killed all his children while his other children living abroad ran mad. The rich man who had harem of wives  could not sleep again as his  seven wives died  within one year. His wealth  perished before his very eyes . When he consulted spiritualists the  rich man was told that  all the curses placed on those criminals   were on his him and his family members”

 

If Elerewe were your brother and was felled like this how will you feel?

       The Biblical stories are real. After betraying the son of man , Judas Iscariot went  to hang himself. He could not bear the heavy burden of guilty conscience again. It was too heavy for him. Friends, associates and even the Kings could not help. Nobody could harbor him again and nobody could call him his friend. 

WE KEEP LION AND GOATS AS PETS

 Since the  brutal killing of  Chief Elérèwè of Òwò Kingdom  we  have been living in self denial . We pretend that nothing happened.  Everybody is going on his business .We shield  suspects and  we  pretend  like the man whose house is on fire but told his children that all is well. We breed not only hyenas or tigers but also  dangerous snakes . We  keep cobra in our room as pet  and pretend that  all is well. We keep lion in the house with goats and  claim  the two are just  pets . We keep  these criminals in our midst  and pretend we are safe. We forget  that  the  criminals  we are shielding will one day  rape and kill  our daughter, mother or niece.

         We are  not only foolish and stupid but  also  wicked . Our society is wicked . Let’s leave the  defenders of evil who are   wicked and soulless alone , let’s leave the rich and well connected people who use their wealth and influence to inflict pains on the weak  and make the criminals  evade justice for God said it all” vengeance is mine.”

CAN WE HAVE ANOTHER  GANI FAWEHINMI AGAIN?

For those defending lies may God  rain curses on them and  what happened to Elérèwè  should happen to their family members.  The late Gàní Fáwèhìnmí’s name will forever be in the good book of the Ondos because he  fought for justice .  Fáwèhìnmí would not because of money defend crime or injustice. Fáwèhìnmí would not defend  a crime he would rather expose the criminals. He defended the Nigerian masses till death. 

But come , so you don’t believe it can happen to you? It can happen to me. It can happen to anybody!.

It is exactly 10months today that the  Elérèwè of Òwo Kingdom  was  brutally assassinated  but we are laughing , attending parties and pretending that  nothing happened. Haba!. Are we just stupid and foolish? .Have we become  aláìnírònú ará Galátíà?

    Let us review the print and electronic media that carried the news. Let us show them to our children .Let the History of Òwò not forget this one that an High Chief was brutally killed and nothing happened 10months after.

Let us not keep quiet. Let those who did it not have rest of mind .

https://www.tvcnews.tv/2021/12/gunmen-kill-owo-high-chief-tunde-ilori/

Elerewe’s murder: Police arrest five suspects

How High Chief Elerewe was killed

https://thenationonlineng.net/murder-of-high-chief-owo-youths-call-for-diligent-investigation/

https://thenationonlineng.net/fish-out-killers-of-elerewe-of-owo-family-cries-out-to-igp/

https://www.thehopenewspaper.com/ondo-high-chief-killed-wife-demands-justice/

https://saharareporters.com/2021/12/15/breaking-protest-rocks-ondo-unknown-gunmen-kill-high-chief

 

Killers and supporters  of Elérèwè will not go unpunished 

Gunmen Kill High The Elerewe, Tunde Ilori In Ondo (Photo)

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/12/gunmen-kill-ondo-high-chief-over-land-dispute/

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/01/murder-of-owo-high-chief-dont-plunge-community-into-crisis-youths-appeal-to-family-of-deceased/

https://wizinko.com/view/post/If-the-people-who-killed-the-chief-aren–39;t-found–hi/218

https://gospelflavour.com/view/post/If-the-killers-aren–39;t-caught–the-chief–39;s-/92

 

    I received a call sometimes ago , from  Dallas. The  caller  asked when the annual Igogo festival  would start . I told him it would not be as usual , he said ”Oh my God I will miss this year’s festival . I enjoyed watching Olowo’s  costume and Elerewe’s  dancing  steps especially  his appearance that showed  his height  –  over six feet tall”. He burst into tears again and rained  curses on  those who killed Elerewe.    He again started pouring curses  on the killers until he burst into tears and dropped the phone. May the killers of Elerewe burn into ashes and reap bountifully their wickedness   from generation to generation.

Who killed Elerewe of Owo Kingdom?

Who is the next victim after Elerewe?

May those who killed Elerewe die mysterious death. May those  who contributed to the  killing of Elérèwè experience such calamity in their household. Shout Amen please. 

TO THE KILLERS OF ELÉRÈWÈ , HERE IS THIS SONG FOR YOU

 Ègbòn mi owon (2times)

Égungun mi lo ñ’fon

Iwo l’o pa mi t’órí ogún ati oyè yiii o

Ègbòn mi owon

Egungun mi lo ñ’fon

May those who know those who killed Elérèwè and those  hiding the truth be put to shame  with their entire family members. AMEN.ASE. 

Eyin ti e pa Chief Túndé Ìlòrí Elérèwè, èyin amōkùn s’ìkà, e s’èkà tan e t’esè m’órìn , e ti gbàgbé pe bi Oba aiye ko ri yin Oba orun nwo yin . E s’eka tan e y’ídó b’orí. Ñje e mò pe gbogbo ènìyàn mò yin. Won si d’áké ni o. Ojó ojó kan nbo ti e oo maaa kà bōrò bi àjé. Ojó ojó kan nbo ti ìkòokò yin ko  nii  gbeyin mo. Ojó l’ójó ti àsírí a tú. Enu yin a kan, e oo ma bèbè fun ìdáríjì èsè. Sùgbón  èpa kò bóro mo o. OLÓRUN A FI ÌYÀ JE YIN.

Ika a ponika ooo,

Rere a beni rere

Eni ba s’eka laiye,

omo re a je ,

Aya re a je , oun naa  a jiya

B’oo gbon bi ifa bi o mo bi opele  ……..( KSA)

Mo pàdé Àgbákò, ìjà bèrè!

 

 

  NÍGBÀTÍ  mo  pàdé  okùnrin  nã  mo kígbe “Hã mo  ti  ko Àgbákò!”. Igbe mi sì gba igbó kíkankíkan. Òun naa si dáhùn pé  ” Àgbákò ti kò é,o ti fí ojú rī ”.

Ojú sánmà  sú dèdè  béè sì ni oòrùn ñràn kíkan kíkan. Bí  ara mi ti  ńgbóná bi eni a d’áná igi fún yá   bé è sì ni  ó ñ’tùtù bi omi inú  fíríjì  sùgbón èrù ko bà mi bē sì  ni àyà kò fò mi. Sèbí  okùnrin ni mi? . Sèbí mo ni gògóngò l’órùn?. Àní se èmi kì ì se okùnrin ojo.

Rírí tí mo ri Okùnrin naa  mú  mi rántíi ohun ti Bàbá mi,  Jóshúà   so fun mi nígbàti ti o n’lo oko ode l’áyé ìgbã ni. Ìjúwe  abàmì arákùnrin yi wa sí ìrántí fún mi . Bàbá mi so pe ”Bi ìwo bá rí  okùnrin olójú méta, tí ó  ní  apá méfà, esè mérin, ti iná ñjáde l’énu rè bi Sàngó Olúkòso oko Oya , ti o ñju ìrù rè bénbélé bi òbo lágídò, ti ejò ñyo ahón beere l’órí rè , ti itó enu re ñhó bi ose , ti àkèekèé si ñjáde ni enu rè tó  ba ñ’sòrò, ti ìka owó rè ñ’tan iná , ti  paramólè ñyojú l’ójú ojúgun esè rè, ti  ìgbonsè ñjáde l’étí re, ti o ñyàgbé s’ára sùgbón ti ìgbé rè  jé kìki   ata àti ìdin , Àgbákò l’o rí yen , sá fūnn. Má se dúro ìwo omo mi. Inú Igbó BoN l’o ñgbé.

       Kíámósá mo  múra ogun .Mo tú  fìlà  mi dé  , mo si ko iwájú rè si èhìn. Mo fi d’ígí abàmì si oju  ti o fi jé  pé okùnrin naa ko mo pe ojú  mi ti yípadà ,ó ti di pupa bi eyìn iná , èjè si njade l’ójú mi o si ñkán tó, tó tó. Ojú mi ñsáná sàrà sàrà bí àrá l’ójú àwosánmà nígbà òjò.

       Ojó  l’ojó nã  l’óhūn ti mo paradà ti mo di eni a kò gbódò jí rí. Àni  sé   ojó l’ojó nã l’óhūn ti mo paradà di eni a kò gbàdúrà kí a kò l’ónà oko t’àbí  l’ónà  ojà .  Mo fi òrùka máyehùn si owó sùgbón mo gbàgbé l’áti fi  òrùka Kìnìún  oníde ti eye abàmì fun mi l’ójósí si  íka owó mi  lati mò bóyá ewu wà l’ónà. Hã nígbàyìí ni mo tó mò pé ewu wà l’ónà. Èmi Okùnrin méta. Èmi naa Ewu . Ewu ñbe Lóngé, Lóngé pãpã  ewu. Èmi oko Rónì, èmi oko Fèróníkà. À ní sé èmi ni  eni kòō kò mò ón, eni mò ón kò kò ó.

       Mo fi ègbà oníde si owó ti yio mã bá mi s’òrò bi ènìyàn . Beeni n’kò gbàgbé ègbà orùn ti a fi odindi  eyín erin ati eyin àmòtékùn  àti  èdo igi  Màhógánì ati ti Ìrókò  se.

Bi mo ti k’ojú ìbon mi   si okùnrin naa  ni o k’ígbe l’óhūn rara pe ” Mo rí e , abàmì okùnrin, mo rí e o Bobo T, T Bobo, BoN, Babalawo Of the Nation,  Bàbá olórùka ,ju ìbon re d’ànù , iná mō o l’óní.

  Àwa méjèjì fi ìjà peéta. Ìjà nã pò gidigidi l’ójó naa.  Nígbàtí Okùnrin Àgbákò yi  rii pe owó òun ko bà ‘mi ati pe nkò bìkítà, o fé atégùn si owó re òjò bèrè sii rò , bi  òjò se ñrò ni  egungun rè  ñle sii. Sùgbón mo pe Ìya mi l’órun mo ni ” ìyá mi tōto, abiyamo kìì gbó igbe omo rè ki o mã t’ara, Oládoyin má se wò mi níran . Abiyamo tōto o d’owó re o”.

    Mo wo òkè mo wo ilè , mo rañtí wipe òrùka mi àti ògèdè mi ko  nii s’isé l’áì fi orúko Olúwa sii. Mo ráñtí pé  enìkan tun ñbe ti o ju Bàbá ati Ìyá mi lo. À ní sé , mo ráñtí pe oògùn kò nii je láì fi ti Elédùmarè siii. Ni ìséjú aáya mo kúnlè, mo pe Elédùmarè ti o da ewé ati egbò ki o se àtìlehìn fun mi.

Bí mo se ñse èyí èrín ni ebora ti nwón npè ni Àgbákò bú sí.

( Coming out soon in my Book)

 

 

Where I was last Sunday

 

……………Ha!  See  where I was last Sunday

 ………….Festival of Nations  in St. Louis , Missouri 

………..Looking  for my effigy , Ere Ibeji 

At the Festival of Nations

PHOTOS: TAIWO ABIODUN

    Festival of Nations celebrating

Spectators at the event

PLS WATCH THIS

FEED YOUR EYES

 

Looking for Ere Ibeji  (Twins Effigy) 

WHERE   I WAS LAST SUNDAY

WATCHING from  afar off one could see a sea of heads at the Park. On the stage were dancers and drummers doing what they know best. The Drummers who were in green ,red and yellow color costume  exhibited their skills as they  beat traditional   drums like Djembe,  Conga  ,  Bata,  Bougarabou,  Ngoma, and the Ashiko. The   Conga drummer  displayed his dexterity while the  Djembe  drummer  too  used all his energy to do justice to the drum. The  female dancers were the cynosure of all  eyes as they danced their hearts out while the audience was electrified  by their powerful performance .  A  Rastafarian  was  prancing around while another woman was  dancing and mimicking one 0f the dancers  as  her  dreadlocks were dangling like pendulum . This was  last Sunday at  one of the activities lined up for  FESTIVAL of  NATIONS . Festival of Nations is an annual food and entertainment festival hosted by the International Institute non-profit organization in St. Louis, Missouri.

Drummers doing their job  

Visitors  were   mooching around where antiques, artefacts ,woven cloths and  crafts  were displayed  for sale.  Those who were hungry went  to where assorted Continental foods were being sold . Some   were  walking  up and down feeding their eyes . Couples   held  themselves tightly as if   kidnappers   were after   their partners .Some  were seen munching ,some dancing to the music blaring from the  speakers  that were strategically positioned  at the venue. Some  went into  a frenzy    jumping  and wriggling their waists while some sat on the bare floor watching the dancers on the stage  and while  some  of course  were busy selling or  purchasing products of all kinds.  As a matter of fact no one stood still as they were all busy doing one thing or the other .While some  came for window shopping .

Some of the Chinese  art works

Before you say Jack Robinson  I had  buried myself in the midst of the crowd  and joined both  the professional and amateur  Camera men  leaving Ronnie at a Hawaiian Cuisine place   .Cameras of  different types   were  sighted as both professionals and amateurs were busy doing the job;  Selfitis  were not left out as    they were  taking shots and  posting them  on  social media. the annual Festival Of Nations  united them  at Tower Grove  Park, St. Louis , Missouri.

Drummers at work

FOODS, ARTWORKS ETC

Different Sculptures, statues, carvings  were  displayed for sale. Some of these are  as old as the creation. Some   had  seen ages while some  are as old as the hills. Many had decayed and  become  fragile . Some  of these artworks   have seen ages while some too have become Methusela.

Abiodun at  …..

All kinds of foods  in the continent were displayed from  local food to continental food .  Chinese, Indian, American, African, Hawaiian food, American  were all available. The more you looked at them  the more you are  salivating as the aroma would not let you  be.

Abiodun inspecting some of the artworks 

 

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Different cars  were parked  at  various locations at the venue  .Rules of parking were  not violated to my  surprise ,anyway violators would be issued tickets. The roads were jammed packed . It was the day I knew Arts and Culture is a Universal language. It was another day I knew  Lovers of Arts are allover the world  as the venue of the Festival of Nations  was jampacked by different nationalities.

Our journey to Festival of all Nations started when  Ronnie’s phone rang and her younger sister, Renata Macintosh  told her there was a festival going on at the  Park in St. Louis . Oh my God , what were we waiting for?

I refused to bath. Walaitalai I  didn’t  bath for I didn’t want to waste time. . Church ? Walaitalai , I shelved church for I would still meet  Church next time. But this festival is an annual one . All festivals were aborted last year because of COVID. Ronnie knew how crazy I am about Culture. She dressed up and that was how we forfeited our breakfast  and lunch that Sunday.

Armed with my camera and other gadgets we drove to the park. At first Ronnie was  upset when  she could not find where to park .

  get Infact there was no place to park as she  was burning the  gas  going forth and back looking for  space. I begged her to exercise patient  that last year  nothing happened due to COVID .Luckily we got a place to park and lo and behold a truck was leaving and we quickly  pullover and parked .

Suddenly my stomach was  producing rumbling sound .I was hungry. It was  then  I knew I had not eaten . Ronnie now remembered she had not had her breakfast as we were both hungry.

Taiwo Abiodun looking for what to  eat

LOOKING FOR MY EFFIGY , ERE IBEJI

The place  could be compared   to  the cemetery where one would meet fresh and dried bones. When I sighted all these arts and crafts , and seeing ‘heads’ I started looking for twins’ effigy. I saw most of the artworks I saw in Nigeria . I asked  the Gallerist about his materials . The young man  gave us the price. He said ” this one is 200 dollars , it is an antique”, I was shocked for the said antique was old and already decaying . I believe it must have seen ages. When I tried to touch it , Ronnie warned ” please don’t let it break ”.

I frantically searched for ” Ere Ibeji” Twins effigy .But I was not   sure of what they  were. Ha!  I asked myself where all these African artworks come from. Africans are rich in Culture , this I am proud to say.

We left the art market and went round looking for where we can see Nigeria food but what we were seeing were Togolese, Liberian, Hawaiian, Kenya etc food.

Ronnie had wanted to eat pounded yam ( Iyan ) with egunsi  soup and  vegetable (efo riro) or  okra (ila asepo)  but none of these were seen. And we settled  for snacks .

 

It was fun as we went round  and saw all races at the venue. The festival united them all.

Back home in the evening I started ruminating over what I saw in the morning . I  was happy and satisfied that I got all these pictures and stories.

Next Sunday I will go to church . The church will not run away but   next year is another time for the festival. I know they will say all the arts and crafts are idols. I know they will look down on all these artworks saying they are not for Christian but have forgotten that there is a big different between Religion and Culture.

 

I was ‘arrested’ on River Mississippi Bridge

 

…..Latest on  Elerewe’s suspected killers

…..Why I changed to Giraffe 

…..I was ‘arrested’ on River Mississippi Bridge

…...Ha!  what I saw at the Bank of Mississippi River

 

 

The Mississippi Bridge 

        I  was   glued to my seat  and  my mouth agape when  I sighted the    rigid-frame bridge .   It was awesome .It was  massive . And when that early  morning sun  beamed  on  the bridge,  the steels    shone like millions of stars  in the sky while   the silver color    showed   the aesthetics   bridge design  . I was almost blind  when  I fixed my naked  eyes on the shining  bridge. The   bridge   displayed  its beauty as the car moved slowly over the bridge . I sighted  pool of water on the road but  always  disappeared  each time  we got closer- not knowing it was a mirage .I then  recollected   that  we were taught about it  in  secondary school. Yes, the bridge    is   as  strong  and solid as the rock of Gibraltar .

On the Mississippi Bridge

I WAS ‘ARRESTED ‘ ON MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE 

    As I was  dancing to Bob’s  Marley music , suddenly I was    ‘arrested’ by an invisible  ‘Police’ but  trust me , Bobo T, T Bobo , BoN, Babalawo  Of the Nation , I quickly  chanted some incantations and then   ‘metamorphosed’ into a  giraffe . 

I stopped peeping through the window glass and I unstrapped my seat belt and    stretched out my neck  through the  glass  window  to have a look  at the   ‘Police’ . Lo!  and behold the river   was   calm and cool  but moving slowly  and babbling . When I saw the beauty I appreciated the  aesthetics work of Arts . The  Structural  and  Civil Engineers who   designed  and   constructed   the iron bridge  did a brilliant job. The abutments , ledgers, the bridge shafts, barrier rails, deck, parapet etc were well constructed and built .

However , the river  was     deceitful with its calmness and coolness . As I  was  looking and appreciating   the beauty and   the construction of the bridge I sighted    the  signboard of Welcome to Mississippi River,  and I screamed ” Oh my God ! so this is the popular River they taught us in  elementary school. This is  the  wonderful River we all sang its song when young”. This is the third -largest river basin in the world I  thought in my mind  ”I wish our River Ògbèsè and Odò Òsé  in Owo  are as popular like this”. I unconsciously    started the song:

Part of Mississippi bridge that   connects Arkansas and Tennessee 

 

Miiississippiii , Miiississippiii, Mississippi 

M-i-ss-i-ss-i-pp-i ( spelling)

Miiissiiissippiii

Welcome to Mississippi

I sang, clapped and shook my body to the rhythm while  Ronnie who was behind the wheels sang along with me . It was hilarious. It  was  interesting. It was fun.

Welcome to Tennessee 

       At first I thought  of  coming down from the car and be jumping up and down to dance. Yes!,  I had wanted to  display my acrobatic skills and tricks. But when I remembered where  I  was   and I kept my cool. I behaved or else….. Olopa a kan arrest me ni  and nothing go happen .If you like call yourself Bobo T, T Bobo, BoN, Babalawo Of the Nation, nothing concern dem o. Again I  stretched out my neck to view  the surroundings.  But there  was one thing I noticed: there was no sacrifice (ebo) placed by its banks . There  were  no black  clay pots with palm oil and eggs .  There were no calabashes wrapped with white satin clothes , infact there was no white clothe  that covered   any object and there were no sacrificial meat or bones placed by the riverbank. I  became  restless as I stretched out my neck ( remember I am now a Giraffe) again to see whether I would  see chicken or  pigeons with their stomach  ripped  open   and  filled with palm oil and cowries. There was no slaughtered dog or duck with palm fronds  and no broken clay pots with cowries.

      I stretched out my long  neck to  take pictures of the white garment -wearing church – goers  who came  for spiritual  bath in the river . I stretched  out my long  neck   to shoot the video  of  the  prayer warriors  and the prophets  with their dreadlocks  praying , seeing visions and speaking in tongues  by the riverbank .But none was sighted!.

      Tokotiyawo a lu bembe. All in  Tunica

            I stretched out  my neck  to take pictures of  man or woman bending down to  pass excreta or  urinate into the river  but none seen .  No dirt  or refuse dumped around the place .The bridge was very  clean . Looking afar off one could see the boats and canoes that berthed .Here, there were no Area Boys parading unnecessarily on the bridge and nobody was running after our car punching our noses to buy  plantain chips or video CD .Nobody even ran after our car to clean the window glass or shield screen .Not a single  soul was sighted on the bridge walking .  I stretched out my neck again as I turned to Ostrich to see whether I would  see  any law enforcement officer  who would stop us and ask for our papers, but what I saw were Video cameras capturing everything !.

        Later Ronnie asked in smattering Yoruba language  ” What is River Okese? And Odoo Hose?.” I laughed and told  her  that it is River Ogbese and Odò Òssé but   not as she pronounced it. We all laughed. I boasted that River Niger bridge is also as strong as this  Mississippi River.

 PLANNED TO MEET   DOLLY PARTON 

        As I sighted the river I could see  that the bridge linked  two states : Arkansas and Tennessee  where the popular American Country Music Singer, Dolly Parton was born . We drove into the Tennessee town and  had wanted to go to  Parton for an  interview  but no time.  However,   Ronnie promised to do that next time. Yes1,  I would have loved to ask  Parton about the Tennessee song  she sang .

MY TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN HOME
Sittin’ on the front porch on a summer afternoonIn a straight-backed chair on two legs, leans against the wallWatch the kids a’ playin’ with June bugs on a stringAnd chase the glowin’ fireflies when evenin’ shadows fall
In my Tennessee mountain homeLife is as peaceful as a baby’s sighIn my Tennessee mountain homeCrickets sing in the fields near by……..

I would have asked her   to sing a song for me . I would have asked her whether she would come to Nigeria for a concert but all these would be next time . Now we are busy going places to mark our fourth year wedding  anniversary .

      As we arrived  Memphis  the home town of Elvis Presley  the King of Rock & Roll, I reminded Ronnie that I needed to take pictures of these states and show it to my readers that we passed through  the three states while going back home to St. Louis .

          I   TRANSFORMED  TO OSTRICH AGAIN

        As we passed the same bridge on our way back to St. Louis,  I used my magical power and  turned to   Ostrich, the Father  of all birds ( Ògòñgò Baba Eiye)  . I brought out my  camera and took some shots and videos. Walaitalai I took pictures  and asked questions . I asked who discovered the Mississippi river? .Now if I say it is Bobo T, T Bobo or BoN, or Babalawo Of the Nation that discovered it they could stone me   saying it has been there before I arrived.

         But back home  in Nigeria  we would say and write that Mungo Park discovered River Niger . Was the river not there before Mungo Park arrived? .Then it was Lander Brothers  and so on. I told Ronnie that  I would write home and tell them how I discovered Mississippi , she laughed.

Marking our fourth year wedding anniversary in Tunica

    Now my throat was dry. My throat was demanding for  beer to push down the  smoked    turkey  lap Ronnie bought . Oloun ooo my  throat was asking for what we kept in the trunk . Walaitalai , Oloun ngbo my throat was saying” Bobo T, T Bobo , BoN, Babalawo Of the Nation go and take your Gin or Beer from the trunk”. But  if I dare took them and drank…… hhmmmmmm, if the car smell of kain kain, hnmmmmmm. Again, when I remembered that this is not …..eria I  quickly talked to my brain and  exercised patience . When we got home I slept off like a log of wood .

The following day   Ronnie said ” Last night  you   you were   snoring  and   uttering speech,  talking  about Mississippi  and that is called somniloquy. You  were  singing that song:

Miiiississippiiii , Miiiississippiiii , Miiiississippi 

M-i-ss-i-ss-i-pp-i ( spelling)

Mississippi…”

ELEREWE : KILLERS & THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS 

How will you feel if the late Elerewe is your Father, Brother,  Cousin, Uncle or your friend?. Tell me!

We  have all  heard -rumour or no rumour  .You know them . He knows them. She knows them.  We all know them . They know them. Their  children know them . The elders  in the community know them  even  toddlers know them. The killers’  family and friends know them . All Owo people both  home and abroad know them .The killers of Elerewe live with us. They live among us. They sleep in the community. Yes, Walaitalai  they are not ghost!. I repeat , they are not strangers, Laiye nwon kii ise alejo! . Asiri ti tu. Akara ti tu s’epo but time will tell. The fact is that many are afraid to tell the truth . All is a matter of time. Five years’ time, 10 years’  time , 20 years’ time the killers will reveal EVERYTHING!.

             Let them run. Let them hide. Let them be assisted by millionaires. Let the power that- be  assisted them. Let them believe in their juju. Let them hide those AK47 guns  they used . Let those  guys  who corked and released the bullets   hide . Let them go to Church. Let them go to  mosque. Let them invite Marabouts to their homes. Let them spend money . Let them use all connections in this world . BUT GOD IN HEAVEN , WALAITALAI ALLAH  and ALL THE 2001 gods OF YORUBA LAND WILL NOT FORGIVE THEM. ALL THE IRUNMOLES WILL CURSE THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS.

The killers of Elerewe live with us. They live among us. They sleep in the community. Yes, Walaitalai  they are not ghost!. I repeat , they are not strangers, Laiye! nwon kii ise alejo!

I repeat MAY THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF THOSE WHO HAD HANDS IN THE ASSASINATION OF CHIEF ELEREWE OF OWO KINGDOM BE PUT TO SHAME. THEY WILL DIE SHAMEFUL DEATH  ONE AFTER THE OTHER IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME. MAY THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF THOSE WHO HAD HANDS IN THE KILLING OF TUNDE ILORI  BE KILLED WITH GUN .MAY GOD IN HIS HIGHEST  STRIKE  THE FAMILIES OF THE KILLERS WITH INCURABLE SICKENESS

The late Elerewe of Owo Kingdom… I am sure his killers are  now regretting 

COME WHAT DID THE LATE CHIEF DO TO HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD?. WHAT COULD HE HAVE DONE ? . THIS WORLD IS EPHEMERAL. KI LODE? I REPEAT , THOSE WHO PLANNED AND THOSE WHO CARRIED  OUT THE KILLING OF ELEREWE WILL NOT KNOW PEACE TILL THE END OF THEIR LIVES . MAY THE LIVES OF THE KILLERS BE UNSTABLE LIKE THE SEA. MAY THE PROBLEM IN THE  LIVES OF THESE KILLERS BE LIKE THAT MOUNTAIN KILIMANJARO .MAY THE KILLERS COMMIT SUICIDE  LIKE JUDAS ISACARIOT AFTER DROPPING THE  30 SHECKELS OF SILVER. MAY THE KILLERS END THEIR LIVES LIKE OYENUSI. MAY THE CHILDREN OF THOSE WHO KILLED ELEREWE DIE PREMATURELY. MAY THE WIVES OF THE KILLERS OF ELEREWE DIE IN SHAME . MAY THE IN-LAWS OF THE KILLERS OF ELEREWE  BE DISGRACED BEFORE THEY DIE.

COME , WHAT DID TUNDE ILORI DO? WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN HIS OFFENCE? .WALAITALAI  HIS KILLERS WILL SOON BE CONFESSING LIKE A TORMENTED WITCH . HIS KILLERS WILL HAVE ACCIDENT AND BURN IN HELL .HIS KILLERS WILL BE IN TROUBLE AND WILL BE BEGGING FOR MERCY . HIS KILLERS WILL BEG FOR BREAD. HIS KILLERS WILL BE IN FINANCIAL WAHALA BEFORE  THEY DIE. HIS KILLERS WILL COMMIT SMALL CRIME THAT WILL EXPOSE THEM . HIS KILLERS WILL TAKE RAT POSION. HIS KILLERS WILL BE TORMENTED AND BECOME MAD AND BE CONFESSING .

BURIAL ARRANGEMENT FOR ELEREWE

This is a special announcement for everybody :the late Chief Elerewe will be buried  on the so so and so date at so so and so time . Walaitalai , there is no date fixed for the burial. Bury ko, bury ni. 

Elerewe continue to fight those who planned and killed you . Appear to your killers in their dreams . Chase them with sword and axe (Not cutlass) .You are still the Elerewe of Owo Kingdom . 

Let one or two of the killers come out to confess. Let them quickly report themselves to the Police and have peace  of mind. Yes, I know some of the killers are reading this article. And God cursed Cain.. …..he later became a Vagabond. The rest is History.

To those who killed Elerewe  of Owo Kingdom don’t forget to target me o, olori buruku gbogbo, idiot. I owe you only one bullet even one stroke of ponpo is enough for me, who will not die?.Shiorr!

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Four years ago we both said ” WE DO”.

Home away from home

That Òwò  massacre….

 

St. Francis Catholic Church

THEY woke up  on that Sunday morning bubbling with life. Yes, they woke up hale and hearty .They  took their bath , wore their best clothes  to celebrate and to  do thanksgiving . ‘Armed’   with their rosaries dangling in their hands  and  necks  as  they  clutched   their Holy Bibles under their armpits  then  headed  for  church to serve God. While in Church  the Choristers  joyfully sang to high heavens , praised the Lord  and  danced like skilled dancers rejoicing  and praising God .In fact they   mashed Satan on the ground  and they sang  “mash am , mash am “.  They  te èsù pa and shouted Hallelujah as they  danced  to the tune of Organ. The Priest performed his Priestly  rituals  while the congregation  prayed, poured their  troubled minds  and deposited their problems  to   Holy Mary   mother of Jesus whose ‘picture’ was on the wall of the altar    to solve  .Yes , they looked forward to seeing another week and waiting for their prayers to be answered  and manifested  the following week  in order to come back to give  testimonies the following Sunday.

TRAGEDY STRUCK

As the the church service was coming to an end the  unexpected happened . Tragedy struck.  Within a twinkle of  an eye catastrophy   reared its ugly head. The  congregants’  joy was cut short .  It was an unhappy ending as some  criminals entered  the church and punctured their happiness . Sadness took over as the church  received some visitants : the Devil they prayed against  appeared from nowhere. The  Devil  they avoided and cursed  appeared in Church. Yes!, the  Satan they mashed and crushed suddenly rose  as  he manifested himself through his Satanic  messengers . The Devil came to kill, maim, steal and destroy . And they came , killed, maimed, stole and destroyed.

  Ha! Oloun Oba o! the unsuspected  congregants  met  one -on -one  armed -to-the -teeth    daredevil armed  men. They were face -to -face -with  the men of the underworld  holding AK 47  (Kalashnikov automatic   rifles). They  saw   the  blood –  thirsty and  fierce- looking bloodshot eyes of  these wicked  men   . Haaa  ki l’eleyi?.  Igbe a n’fe ewé! Guns ke , in the church!. Wàhálà de! . Òràn ńlá!. Oghàn mó gbé! Mo wèsún òràn. Òrò  di bi o ko lo y’àgò  fun mi. Oloun Oba o, eni orí kó yo o d’ile. The sound of their guns  gbàù, kà-kà-kà-kàà   rent the air and  made some to climb the fence , some hid  under the pulpit , some under the Pews , some ran into Sacristy while  some laid flat  as the  assassins  emptied bullets on them .They  opened fire and sprayed  their bullets mercilessly  on them .God have mercy .They  shelled heavily . Then a loud sound was heard, it was  a dynamite  . It was an explosive . It was  bomb!. Bómbù kè in the House of God?.  The church building vibrated and shook to its foundation. All the materials on the table  came down crashing , human  brains  spilled on the altar. Human flesh littered the ground like leaves. Blood splattered on the walls as they stained the pictures  of  Holy Mary on the altar. Ha! it was a Black Sunday . Yes, ojó burúkú  èsù  gb’omi mu. The old ones who could not run with their feeble legs were not as lucky. Innocent children were caught in the  melee  as they were soaked in their own pool of blood. Ha , nwon o nii jèrè. Ik ú òjijì  will kill these wicked people.

While some mothers  abandoned their children and ran for their dear lives  having the Yoruba saying in mind that  bi iná jo ni jo omo eni t’ara eni laa ko gbòn, O di bii o kò lo y’àgò  fun mi .While some too died alongside  with their children. Husband and wife were forcefully ‘joined’ together in death as they were shot dead!. It was like a movie but real.

The assailants opened fire and   shot the  innocent congregants  .Limbs were separated from the bodies. Some had their bones shattered . Body parts scattered on the floor .Blood was everywhere .  It was  ikú gbígbóná as innocent souls were sent to the grave  . Many of them were identified by their clothes and shoes they wore. It reminds  one the Hotel Rwanda Movie – a 2004 drama film directed by Terry George .  Haaa ! O ma se o. Ìkà l’ènìyàn, ènìyàn  ni ìkà.

 

This toddler came from America to visit her grandparents, was among the victims

Some minutes later ( after the monsters had left) the church was besieged by sympathizers  as tears flowed freely while many   lay dead  and some were  writhing in pain, dying .The assailants left behind  sorrow ,tears and  blood courtesy of Fela Anikulapo -Kuti.  The Federal Medical Centre, St Louis Catholic Hospital  had  their mortuaries filled  with  dead bodies. Over 40 were killed. The  victims had their blood -soaked  clothes and shoes returned home  by sympathizers who  identified them  telling the family members of the victims  that the owners of these properties are no more. Tears flowed freely, the shouts of õróóó òòò  rent the air. In the victims’ homes crying and anguish filled the air. Many were rolling on the floor while the bold ones were gnashing their teeth. Wailing took over. Wàláítàlaì the old held their heads  biting  their lower lips as if regretting going to church that day. It was a Black Sunday.

OWO BECAME ‘MECCA’ OF SORTS

The ancient town where Action Group (AG) was formed in 1951 which made it popular politically  became  the sacrificial lamb for the ISWAP who owned up to the killings . Who could have done it?.  Questions remained unanswered while others guess as well as theories upon theories emerged. This dastardly act shook not only  Òwò but Yorubaland and Nigeria as a whole. Unexpectedly , the ancient town became a Mecca of sorts for genuine and fake sympathizers  for some politicians  came for political reasons . Politicians came to show sympathy while the CNN and other foreign media reported the ugly incident that occurred at St. Francis Catholic Church , Òwálúwà Street , Òwò, Ondo State. The whole world was taken by surprise. Òwò for that matter? .Òwò  the land of Honour was dishonoured   by the intruders  that day as the assailants spilled innocent blood. Òwò of all towns? ÒGHÒ!.OGHÒ!!.

SUSPECTS CAUGHT?

On the third day women and children came out not only to protest but to lay  curse  and invoke the spirit of Òronshèn (a goddess in Òwò) on those who performed the heinous act. Few  days later  the whole town  trooped to the palace Of Olówò  of Òwò, Oba Ajíbádé Ògúnoyè  III  to  have a glimpse of  those  were allegedly  caught  whom they suspected to have  performed  the  wicked act. Rumour went round  from Òwò to America, Canada , France that the assailants had been arrested. Na lie, no bi dem jare .Those arrested were later discovered to be Hausas selling Indian Hemp in the farm. Again , the whole town and the world were told that  the search for the assailants continued. When will we apprehend these criminals?

Elerewe’s killers yet to be prosecuted

PAST EPISODES: OPC, FADARE, ELEREWE

Although this ugly incident is not new. What is new is that  it happened in a  Church  . About 21 years ago dozens of  people were killed in Owo  during the  OPC members’ clash . About 22 years ago Engineer Fadare Amúlélé was brutally killed alongside his wife and his house was burnt down .In fact petrol was poured into the toilet where he and his wife ran into to hide and the couple were     gruesomely burnt alive!.  Six  years ago some robbers invaded the ancient  town and unleashed terror on the indigenes as they  killed many  including one Mr. Ogundipe Adene who was in his late 70s. He relocated from America to Ipènmèn after   spending 29years in the United Sate of America  .The report said that some were caught but that was all we heard about it till date.

Exactly six months ago High Chief  Elérèwè of Owo Kingdom Túndé Ìlòrí was brutally murdered in Owo  .According to reports some suspects were arrested but released and up till the moment of filing this report nothing was done.

About one month ago news went round that a foreigner was kidnapped after killing a soldier who was guarding the Engineer working on  road construction in Owo. The soldier was shot in  the head and the video went viral .Up till the moment of reporting this story  nobody  has been arrested.

Couple killed

LIES AND LIES ABOUT OWO BY PRESENTERS

Since the ugly incident the social media   has been  awashed  with all kinds of ugly and unbelievable stories that  some disgruntled people were after the Olowo Of Owo’s life . The video has been going round . Not only this some Bloggers seized  the opportunity to  have verbal  diarrhea  talking jargons . Let me remind you all that we don’t toy with our traditional ruler, the Olowo of wo. We respect our King and therefore those self -aclaimed sympathizers or Sòròsòrò ( Presenters) should be mindful of their words if not we would sue them to Court and would ask Òronshèn to deal with them. One of them was talking about the money donated to the Church and to the family members of the victims, please Bloggers be warned  and know  that Owo is  a land of Honour !.

WHERE ARE THE SPIRITUALISTS?

According to history Òwò  has never been conquered in war and no one has ever invaded Òwò .So what is happening? .Where are the Babalawos and the gods  in Òwò? Where are the powerful  men in Òwò?. Is Owo no longer the Ogho  we know?. I doubt if we will get these assailants , infact I doubt 1,00000 times for if the killers  of Elerewe cannot be fished out  , and when the suspects were arrested it  was turned  to  awúrúju , it was done in  màgòmágó  way and they were released. It is almost going  the way of Dele Giwa’s case when we all knew the killers of Dele Giwa yet none of them was brought to book. Please when are we going to  arrest , re arrest killers of Elerewe ? .When are we going to get the killers of worshippers of St. Francis Catholic Church?

And the questions remains unanswered ” Who Killed Chief Elerewe of Owo Kingdom?. Who killed the Congregants at St. Francis Church?. Who killed Fadare  Amulele? . If we cannot unravel the killers of Elerewe ,then I doubt if we can get those who came from outside to unleash terror on St. Francis Church members!.

 

WE SHOULD ALL BE ARMED

We need gun. We need amulets .We need ōgùn abenugongo . We  need Àse .We need both  physical and spiritual intervention. Imagine these assailants had the effrontery to  come to the centre of the town very close to Olowo of Owo’s palace to unleash terror for 30minutews according to reports and nothing happened .Nobody challenged them .Kai! O ma se o. Everybody was indoor to save their heads. Ah! it is unheard of .Ki lode? and when they left everybody now came out crying and rolling on the floor. According to some reports they contacted the police who in turn complained of not having vehicles to use. But wait where are the brave ones in Owo?. If they could shoot and  unleashed terror for 30minutes uninterrupted then they would do worse in the nearby villages uninterrupted as they are now doing in Benue and other Northern areas where they would invade and killed for hours uninterrupted.

It was these victims today and who knows the next victims  ? . It could be me and it could be you!. It could be a member of my family and as well could be yours!.  When the Elerewe of Owo was killed I wrote and wrote not because I enjoy writing but it could happen to ANYBODY. Eni kan lo mo.  He who feels it knows it .

 

This writer is angry as he asks’ where are our traditionalists?’

WHERE ARE OUR TRADITIONALISTS?

As  the old man was  told that his only child  had his boat capsized and was drowned by a ferocious  whale , he was dumbfounded and did not say a word. The following day he went to the spot   where the boat capsized and sprinkled some powdery substance  there. On the third   day the carcass of the  huge whale  was found by the river bank. When the old man visited the place and saw it ,he was relieved. He said ” this is to save other proposed  victims”. Where is our traditional power  our forefathers bequeath to us? .When the St Francis Church members’  assassins fled they should be made to start dancing or be confused where they were. Where is our power?

Some months ago some dare -devil armed robbers  robbed some banks in Uromi, Edo State .The robbers killed and used explosives on the Banks’ vaults  and the ATM’s machines and carted away millions of naira in Ghana Must Go bags . Immediately the youths heard about the news they barricaded all the roads  leading to the town to avoid the robbers from escaping . The robbers could not pass through the road and therefore  abandoned their loots and fled, according to reports. The video went viral in social media .Now where are our brave youths?.  After killing our people the youths came out fuming  and raging . Hmmmmm, medicine after death , you will say. We could have used our phones to boldly take their pictures. We could have use our Babalawos to make them be dancing to  the sound of the unseen drums and invisible bells . They could have  turned the killers to ants or  turned them to sweepers and be sweeping the Church compound. Where are the Babalawos we honour, fear and respect?

Mark you , these dare devil ones  if care is not taken would start unleashing terror on our villages for they would think if they could succeed  in  the town then they could do this unperturbed anywhere.

What is the role of our Government on security?.But the Government cannot do everything.  Where are our traditionalists /Babalawos? is our iseese no more working?.

I rest my case.

Spirit of slain Elerewe torments his killers

… …..SIKIRU AYINDE BARRISTER  ON ELEREWE 

                ……….SUSPECTS  HAVING NIGHTMARES                                                             ………THE LATE CHIEF WILL BE BURIED  ON …( WATCH THE VIDEO AS MD. DEOLA ANNOUNCES ..)

                    ……….NO NEW  ELEREWE WILL  BE INSTALLED  UNTIL ……

 

Aguntasoolo…the late Elerewe of Owo Kingdom

 Iku wo ‘le ola ….

Osika ranti Ola…

Ajo ko le dun k’odidere ma re’wo

Ko ma s’eni ti ko ni r’orun

B’ areni l’owo ninu iku  Elerewe

Ipade d’ijo agbeunde….

Ibi ti Baba  o niwoju omo o,

Oko ko ni woju iyawo re mo o,

Egbon gbami gbami o si o,

Ore gbami gbami o si o ….

 

Ba r’eni to f’ori pamo l’owo ninu Iku Elerewe 

To so ‘yawo d’alai l’oko o

To s’omo d’alai ni Baba oo

Onitohun ko ma ma ku mo 

Ko fi jo Baba Baba re  ti kooo ku o

Doris ku iroju 

Oloun Oba a duro ti e oo

 

B’aiye lo pe pa e

Onitoun a ku iku moto t’omo t’omo,

Bo ba l’ogun ile a wo,

Bo r’egbefa moto a d’anu ,

Bo ba  b’igba omo  ko ni ku ‘kan soso

Oni t’ohun ko mama ni  ku s’ibi  aso re gbe wa…

..Iku wole ola,  Chief Ilori Elerewe lo n’ile 

Doris ku iroju

….. ALHAJI SIKIRU AYINDE BARRISTER ( AIYE ALBUM)

 

Since December 15, 2021 when some assassins   brutally killed  Chief Tunde Ilori the Elerewe of Owo Kingdom the  suspected killers know no peace. While the    news making  the rounds is that some of these suspects are running from pillar to post as they run to spiritual homes contacting Marabouts  because  the spirit of the Chief  is haunting them.Yes, some of these suspects  are under spiritual incubation ( aabe aabo) begging for forgiveness and seeking the face of God. 

SUSPECTS RUNNING AROUND 

According  to investigation ,since the gruesome murder of the late Chief Elerewe  of Owo Kingdom some of these suspects  are sighted in spiritual  homes. While some attend functions so as not to be suspected. Some too are treated like leper as nobody wanted to be identified with them. One of them was not allowed to have access to the first traditional ruler cum spiritual  head of the town again and he is being dealt with at an arm’s length  .

             Some, according to reports are consulting Native Doctors , Muslim and Christian Clerics ,Star Gazers ,Soothsayers and  the  Alfaa and Priests to let the case die down.   These suspects invited some Marabouts from Okenne. They  went  as as far as Ghana,Togo and some  villages in Nigeria seeking for spiritual assistance. They   buried animals alive and   offered  sacrifices and performed  rituals in the river for the  case  not to  see the light of  the day. But eewo! Iro nla! Uro gbuuu m’aiye mi, mii Uro gbuuu Bami, mii oghon puro jooo, for Baba nla wahala is coming. It’s on the way. Eni ba pa igun will get the result. Eni ba pa akalamagbo so also eni ba pa igunigun will get the result. So Oghon siii!.                 

     Walaitalai  they have swallowed the pestle and can no longer stand upright . Won ti fi owo f’ona won ko le duro, and  the heat is on . Yes, they can no longer sleep since that time. It is ara ko ro okun, ara ko ro adiye .They have become the proverbial bird who perches on the rope.  Beeni it has become a big error! . They killed Elerewe by error. Now they are offering sacrifices and performing rituals  in the night.( Nwon n’gbebo  won loganjo  oru nitori  awaaa..) at the T junctions and going to Priests for prayers Walaitalai  ko le je!!!

May those who killed Elerewe end up like the Mythological Niobe, AAAASSSSSEEEEEEE

Those who killed Elerewe  will end up their lives together like Niobe .Yes, remember what happened  to  Niobe and her  children in Greek Mythology . Niobe,  the daughter of Tantalus. Again may the killers of Elerewe end up like Niobe herself. Walaitalai emi o fo bee, na me talk am and Baba Goodu ti fi ase si.

Information gathered that some of these suspects are having nightmares and seeing the dead Chief  in their dream .One of the suspects confided in one of his friends that he used to see the late Chief in his dream pursuing him . Yes, Chief Elerewe is pursuing them , his spirit did not die . According to the sister of the late Elerewe , ”the late Chief said until all  those who had hands in his death confessed , exposed   and  fished out before he could be  buried”.

Elerewe  ( latest news..….)( Check the video)

Federal Government and International Community will soon be involved  in  further investigation of  the death of the late Chief.

 NO NEW ELEREWE FOR THE NEXT 10YEARS 

Information gathered that some  are working underground to become the new Elerewe no wonder why  some of these people are canvassing for a quick burial of the fallen Chief . Now it is counting  from hours to days  and from days  to weeks and  from  months  to only God knows .Yet there is no hurry to bury the fallen hero, No. We cannot hurriedly bury  Tunde Ilori the Elerewe of Owo kiakia , Iro ,Ko joo. Walaitalai he is still the Elerewe of Owo Kingdom until after  he is buried. As at this moment he is STILL ON HIS FATHER’S THRONE  with the tittle of THE ELEREWE OF OWO KINGDOM. But when will he be buried? Next week? ,Next month or when? The question is :the corpse is still at the mortuary , autopsy not yet done, case not started   , so the burial arrangement is not in sight , Yes, for those thinking he would be buried soon, it is o ti di gombe!.  It is faaa faaa foul! .According to Mrs. Deola , the older sister to the late Chief ” the body  has gone back to dust  so why in a hurry to bury the dust . We shall drag this case to a logical conclusion . When the  killers are brought to justice then we will bury the Elerewe .It could be today or tomorrow and it could be five or 10 years. For Baba Elerewe said he should bot be buried  without bringing the killers to book”

ELEREWE TO BE BURIED SOON?

I am in total support of Deola’s idea   after all when the Ashipa of Oyo, Chief Amuda Olorunkosebi  was brutally murdered on 26 November 1992 in his farm, according to report, the assailants  waylaid him on   the way  to his  farm  and overpowered him , then  broke his neck by twisting it  and poured acid down his throat . They snuffed life out of him in  the most wicked  manner. Believing that the Ashipa might not easily give up the ghost, his assailants did not use gun or cutlass on him. He was buried seven years later after one of the assailants was jailed. So why should the Elerewe be in a hurry ?.

She pleads to the Federal and International Community to wade in

My opinion is there is still the  Elerewe of Owo Kingdom  on the throne. He is spiritually on  the throne , though his mortal body is not there but let me tell you the spirit is fighting . According to a source some suspects imported some Marabouts to their house praying daily  to let the case die down and for him not to appear to them again!.

OWO WILL BE GREAT AGAIN IF……

We want Gani Fawehinmi. We want Femi Falana .We want a ‘Saviour ‘ to rescue Owo  .  The Ondo  and Ekiti towns have great sons who are lawyers and Human Rights activists  who are fighting for the poor . Who are fighting for justice , who will not because of butter and bread sell their birthright . Who will not  because of money sell their conscience to the devil. Yeparipa we want good , sound, God-fearing lawyers. Walaitalai we want    lawyers who have conscience  to defend the late Elerewe’s murder case.

Listen as she pleads to the Federal Government and International Community to help

Owo Indigenes are brilliant ,well groomed and fantastic so therefore let our lawyers tori Oloun stand up and b’eru Oloun jare  . I remember a song ‘‘ Waa b’eru re n’ibode , bi o se buruku  boo s’eere waa beru re n’ibode. 

Let  us fish out the main culprits and stopped accusing  or guessing who did it. Let us not put the  innocent or  suspected people believed to have done it into problem .At the same time let the suspects submit  themselves for scrutiny and thorough investigations to make them be clean from this stain.

Elerewe in his beautiful embroidered regalia 

Abeg which stain? Stain that they had hands in the death of the late chief!.  Let the suspects swear with native powerful gods like Aiyelala, Ogun  and  the spirit  Oro. Above all ,let the suspects help us to find the killers of Elerewe and let them be freed  from being suspected tabi?

For the mischievous people complaining  and sending messages to my friends to warn  me  to stop  publishing Elerewe’s stories , I pray May this type of calamity  befall  their family .

KSA sang;

Ika  a ponika ooo

Rere a beni rere

Eni ba se ‘ka l’aiye

Omo re a je, aya re a je

oun naa jiya ika

Bi o gbon bi ifa , bi o mo bi opele….

While Tope Alabi the Gospel singer cried out

Waa be ‘ru  re ni’bode

Bo ba se ‘ka bo l’apa o ka ye

Waa b’eru re ni’bode

Ologbon aiye e sumobi bi…..

Gbogbo ohun e ba se lee lee o ro bee de be  ba nibode

omo re a je nika

For those criticizing this writer let me remind  them KSA’s song

Ojo ni wa awa o beni kan s’ota 

Eni eji ri leji npa 

o ti d’ami loju pe  eni binu mi 

E ni r’oko  sibi a ti je

Bo ba r’oko sibi a ti je

E ni p’onmi sibi a ti mu

Bo ba sesi  pon’mi sibi a ti mu

Eni m’ona to ma gba…..( Guitar:panran pan ran, pan ran pan ran)

Ebenezer Obey cried:

Rere a pe , Ika a pe , ile ni yo m’eni ti yoo te oun pe

Iwa ika ko pe ara mi , yee ma dan wo

Iwa ika ko pe ara mi rara ko daa

ERI OKAN BY KSA

Mo l’eni kan .. oun nikan ‘lolubewo aiye mi ati lo ati bo mi l’owo re lo wa 

Bi mo se buburu tabi mo se rere ..Eri okan mi ma lo..

..Eri okan mi jowo da mi l’are……

TUNJI OYELANA

Mo lo s’oko mo b’olu oko o ni nwa ..

Mo so lodo , mo b’oluweri o ni nwa gbe’ja ..

Mo de’nu igbo …

Mo de buka awon ore mi nbuta ,

Mo de abete igba nla nio …

Mo wa dele mo ba

Ni nba ko ni nba ro

Oro gbogbo aiye niise

Boo baa o paa o l’omo araiye oo

Boo ba o buu l’ese  l’omo araiye oo ……

Eniyan bi aparo l’omo araiye nfe oooo aaa.

For those complaining of publications of Elewere’s stories , I pray

What they did to Elerewe will be done to them IJMN

Their lives would be as restless as the sea waves

Joy will elude them

Sorrow, tears and gnashing of teeth will be their own portion. E NO GO BETTER FOR THOSE CRITICIZING ME.

 

Haa! And they killed this man

 

Day law enforcement arrested Chief

 

  Chief Olounada Aiyesoro murdered in cold blood

 

……A chief scaled the fence and ….

….Another Chief was hiding behind the door

…..The big one ran towards Benin / Abuja 

……The ancient town  called  BoN    entertained  two visitors few weeks ago .

……The two visitors are Olounesan   Kilonleyin and Musicians

I WAS JUST LAUGHING

MIND is powerful, it can construct and put things in shape. It can mar or make you. It can make you sad or make you happy . Your mind  can   travel  one million miles  while on your bed . It can transport you  from where you are  to anywhere in the world .It can catapult you  and make you sit on   Kilimanjaro mountain . With your mind you can be in Heaven or Paradise . You can be in Hell burning and can be in Heaven rejoicing and shouting Hallelujah  with your mind  . You can be like Satan or Angel depending how you want  your mind to  work. No wonder Williams Shakespeare said it all ”There is nothing either good or bad , but thinking ,makes it so ”.  I was  alone laughing  yesterday while  tears was coming from my  eyes. Nobody to laugh with me but I told a friend  to imagine how it must have been . Chei , if Baba Sala were around he could have made a movie from it . If Ajirebi, Aluwe ,  Awada Kerikeri, Baba Mero, Baba Suwe, Lukuluku Fantasi etc. were here.

Bobo T, T Bobo, BoN, Babalawo Of  the Nation

Here is an imagination of a story  from a town called BoN. A Chief was murdered in cold blood and suspects were rounded up .

Policeman

HOW CHIEF MOJEBI IKU SCALED THE FENCE 

Immediately    Chief  Mojebi Iku  heard that the Police  officers were around, he peeped through the window to be sure . Yes , they were Mobile Police officers  also known as Kogberegbe  led by a Yoruba man Olounesan   Kilonleyin ( Deputy Inspector  General ). He screamed ” Wahala de, mo gbe !oghan mo r’oran!.  He  ran into his room and picked his  traditional flowing gown (agbada)  and his native cap ,but did not know he was wearing different buba and sokoto , all were not matched at all.  He  pretended he was going to a function . No, he did not tell his wife  where he was going . He was confused . Who will blame him? who will see danger ahead and be talking ? Abeg which kind talk o jare?. He  acted   like that Jamaican athlete,  Usain Bolt  the fastest runner in the world but Chief  never succeeded  like Bolt.

He wanted to   scale  the fence but  it was too high and  his flowing gown   could not let him be free , he  then removed it  within a twinkle of an  eye. Ah!, how will they hear that they got me , emi odindi  chief! .He  ran   into his room ,  looked for Gamallin 20  and  Andrex 40 ,( apigi )  .Yes, he  wanted to drink them to end his life , after all iku ya ju esin lo . No way, he did not see  them  under the bed  where he kept  them . What of  the oogun eku , Soole, I mean rat poison ?, no way , he couldn’t find it again.  Maybe I left them  in the  farm , or maybe my  wife  took it away , he thought . He became confused . Oloun Oba o, the  armed -to-the teeth-policemen had surrounded  his  house .He thought of what he could do again . Then he remembered there is a well in the compound , he   went to the  well ,  untied  the rope from  a bucket and looked  for a tree to hang himself but he  saw no tree. Where are the cashew trees? Where are the  Mango or guava trees? .None seen , he only sighted a pawpaw tree and pepper tree . Oh my God , so I don’t have  mango trees here , he now remembered  he  had the trees on his farm, about 50kilometeres away!.

No, this pepper tree will not work, and this pawpaw tree is not strong .He then had a suggestion, let me climb the fence and jump from here . He scaled the fence but  when he saw that his shoe was an impediment and the cement was smooth . He removed  one  of the the shoes and threw  it away!. Then he flew his cap away! fiam.  Mo gbe , they must not catch me , he soliloquized . He struggled to climb the smooth brick wall, ha! , its not good to be fat o. The more he climbed the more its slippery, while his beads were dangling on his neck. Kai alangba kare laiye! a lizard will climb it with its claws and snake will manage to do same but I will try my best , he said .

Chief  Mojebi Iku scaling the fence

But this man is neither a snake nor lizard, he is a human being but  trying to behave like  one. The more he struggled to climb it like agama agama lizard the  more  he suffered  setback. He managed to climb the brick wall that is as  smooth as butter  and as he landed  on the ground  he could not shake his head and praise himself like agama agama lizard who said if he was not praised he would praise himself for a job well-done ,but what did  Chief  see? two police officers waiting!  Laiye , igbe aa fe ewe. As he made  spirited effort to stand up, he failed. Oh my God he has become weak., he must have hurt his leg . He screamed ”Esee mi ooo’‘ (  my leg hurts), he must have sprained his leg because the brick wall fence is high , and while in secondary school the Chief did not participate in Sports not to talk of High Jump. Wahala de!

As he  struggled to free himself ,  he heard some  croaky voices ”kai ,  wanka ,sege barawo, you wan run? if you run  I  go shoot !, the  officers shouted .They  welcomed him with beatings of his life  and with gun’s butt .   Now he became gentle as a lamb  and   could not bear the beating anymore. The two police officers rained beatings on him .Yeeparipa , a whole chief! .His upper lip  had cracked and swollen and now    separated from the lower one. Kai, one tooth is gone  and another one is shaking . Why not? . Kondo Olopa ni now, it speaks volumes on him. Blood , yes he spat , but didn’t see sputum but blood.  He has developed a mountain on his head .Oga e jowo now, he begged but trust them, they did not  understand  Yoruba language for  they are from the Northern part of Nigeria . They are kiigbo, kii gba, kogberegbe Mobile Policemen. They are all dark in complexion with frightening facial marks. Immediately  the chief saw them he  became humble and gentle  .Again they beat him like the Yoruba  beaded gourd, sekere. after all igbaju igbamu ni sekere fi n’ti ode  ariya bo. Yoruba gourd  returns home well battered    from outing entertainment .

Family members crying over the loss of their breadwinner, Chief Olounada Aiyesoro who was brutally  killed by suspected assassins 

As he was struggling with the policemen , he suddenly became gentle because he  could not receive  the  ”royal’ beatings anymore. What of the Olori Oko? Immediately  he was intimated that  they were after him he picked his car and faced Benin road. The rest is now  history.

SECOND CHIEF 

As Chief Motidaran  Edarijimi   sighted the police van , he screamed ” Ye mo gbe , oghon ti wa, o ti mu mi oooo, mo juya (I’m in trouble , the police have come to arrest me), please let me go into hiding . He then went behind the door to hide but the police officers saw his toes showing under the door and chorused   ” this no be  goat’s leg o, na human being be this , and they dragged him out from there with welcome beatings from there. Chei! wonder shall never end , the Chief started confessing like a tormented Witch saying ” Na true , I kill the Chief  just because of money ni o, na Olojukokoro sent me oo I have not even received my balance.

Chief Motidaran  Edarijimi  behind the door

Please forgive me , Allah go forgive you” but trust the Mobile Policemen , they did not listen to him as they dragged him out and gave him a dirty slap in the present of his wife .The wife was asking what her husband did , but this annoyed the police officers as they  rained beatings on her too, she screamed  ” Oghon me a pa mi ku  ooooo( they   wanted to kill me oooo). One of his children advised his father to confess his atrocity and be free but trust the stubborn man , he was ashamed to do that in the public. The couple were dragged to the station where they started confessing like a tormented witch. The couple confessed and said  ” na devil’s work o, please forgive us ”, 

While  Mr. Asiritu  Olojukokoro  who paid for the assassination was intimated that the Police had arrested some  of his men , Chei  , what will  he do ?. He took his car key ,threw it away then began to run , and run and run and run ... Mo gbe ooo . Mi ma fi asisri a tu ooooo, if I had known I wouldn’t have planned this , he was telling one of his friends.  On his way he went to some villages to consult some of his Babalawos , he told  them  that Oka ti fo, asiri ti tu , then what will I do now? The Babalawo told him not to be scared and gave him etu, tira, and ehin oka , ehin ejo, iru kiniun, ehin adiye,  with imi ojo and osumare to bathe with. After three days he came back to  the town , BoN . He spent money and said he was ready to spend 50million  naira to evade justice. Ah, if  I had known, and I don’t want to be jailed for life. Since then some of the suspects have been walking free and avoiding social gatherings . They have been to places doing sacrifices and rituals to let the case die down.But will the case die down? Laiye, eewo , aa tigbo?.

When the suspects talk in the public , they would  just be talking and talking without sense just trying to defend themselves whereas the people of BoN are just watching . Mr. Orunrie Seotan said ” No matter  how they run they will still get them because the Chief they killed is not resting , he will fight spiritually .

MUSICIANS

As these suspects were fleeing ,  Bob Marley’s album Kaya  was playing ” ‘Running Away’

Ya running and ya running
And ya running away…..
But ya can’t run away from yourself
Can’t run away from yourself…..
Ya must have done (must have done)
Somet’in’ wrong (something wrong)….
Why you can’t find the
Place where you belong?…..
Running away 
Peter Tosh’s track was being played 
Down pressor man
where you gona  run to on that day,
if you  run to the  sea , the sea will be boiling
, if you run to the rock , the rock will be melting ….
Peter Tosh Equal Rights

Professor Wole Soyinka  recently said he wants  killing cases in Nigeria  open and he is ready to testify in Court again after 21 years of the assassination of  Chief Bola Ige.

The late Thomas Sankara who was the Burkina Faso Military head of state  whose childhood friend,  Blaise Compaoré  brutally killed in 1987 by soldiers outside his office.

Compaoré ruled for 27 years before  he was  ousted in another coup in 2014 and fled to Ivory Coast, where he lives now. He was given a life sentence in absentia  last week by the Burkina Faso Military government over his involvement of the killing of Sankara. .

  Genesis Chapter 4 VS 9; Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?.
Lucky Dube’s killers were eventually nabbed same Peter Tosh and were given death sentence.
Williams Tolbert  who was the President of Liberia between  1971 to 1980 was brutally murdered by Sergeant Samuel  Doe  which  shocked everybody    but Doe was disgraced and openly murdered , his ear was cut and  his nakedness was  displayed open  to  the whole world . What a shame!

When Murtala Mohammed was killed  on February 13, 1976 and Major Suka  Dimka  who planned the coup was nabbed , he was smiling all through as he was singing like canary bird. General lliya Bisalla  was implicated in the coup but he pretended he was not part of it but in the end asiri tu, and he was shot dead alongside with the coup plotters who killed Murtala Mohammed the then Nigeria  Military head of state.

The death of Basorun Gaa in Yorubaland  was interesting, he killed many people publicly , he was feared but in the end  he was killed in a  market place for everybody to see. He was hewed into pieces.

Ha my brother , you killed me because of …..
An old man reminded us the old song, story  of a  man who killed his younger brother and took away his  beautiful flower, but his dead brother didn’t allow his wicked brother to rest as he sings ;
Egbon mi owon
Egbon mi owon
Egungun mi lo n’fon
Iwo lo pa mi si  papa to m’ododo mii lo
Egbon mi Owon egbon mi owon egungun mi lo nfon…..
THIS IS A FICTION  , ALL NAMES HERE ARE FABRICATED.