Omo Òkè-Ògùn, E ronú Oooo.

In one of my posts titled, "Omo tó solenu, so àpò ìyà kó", I analysed how Afonja lost his throne and territory to the Fulanis, just for devaluing his subjects in favour of Fulani warriors.

To set the record straight, Afonja was a one time Yoruba Generalissimo in the Ancient town of Ilorin, who sold off his soldiers cheaply for he considered them to be tardy and impertinent. He sold them out and bought part of Alimi's (a Fulani warrior) soldiers, he relied so much on them until Fulanis declared a war against his people, his own bought Fulani soldiers fought against his kingdom and delivered the land to Alimi (Their former master, who they understand and speaks their language). Thenceforth, his (Afonja) generation never had a share to the throne in Ilorin.

Dear people of Iseyin and entire Oke-Ogun at large, there may come a time when things will fall apart and the centre will no longer hold. That's when the repercussion of commonising our own capable sons and daughters, in favour of common strangers would set in. The time when the true born will be at the mercy of a wanderer. The time when a vagrant would be a custodian of our dear land's resources and we the real owners would be incapacitated to neither rebut nor refute, for we have sold it and we have lost it!

I pray the time never come. But then, we should be ready to say NO to any satanic permutation and unfounded imposition, which is conspicuously detrimental to our community development.

Edward Abbey once said,  "The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals". Let's for once reflect on our purpose of existence as a community and make that change. Let's value our able men and show the world we can do it.

With everyone doing it right at all times, Better Oke-Ogun is very achievable.

Babajide Oniyo.
National President,
Iseyin Youths Development Group.