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Traditional Worshippers Decry Open Display Of Alaafin’s Dead Body
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Traditional Worshippers Decry Open Display Of Alaafin’s Dead Body

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III Traditional worshippers have decried the open display of the body of the late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, during the Muslim prayer session, which they said, was against the tenets of traditional respect for a deceased king. They also urged Yoruba monarchs to promote traditional religion, which is the basis of their crowns. The traditionalists said the late Oba Adeyemi never minced words in condemning the open display of any Yoruba Oba’s remains for any purpose while he was alive and even went against an attempt by the Ogun State House of Assembly to alter the state’s burial rites procedure to weaken the power of traditional religion and practitioners in taking the needed roles at the burial rites of any deceased king. In a statem...
Why We’re Not Suing Arrested Looters – Oyo Lawmaker
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Why We’re Not Suing Arrested Looters – Oyo Lawmaker

Oyo State federal lawmaker, Senator Teslim Folarin has said his decision not to seek redress against looters arrested in connection with carting away with multi-million-naira empowerment materials in his Ibadan residence was in consideration of the difficult economic condition that informed the recent violence in the country. Thugs who took over the peaceful #EndSARS protests in Ibadan had broken into Folarin’s Oluyole Estate residence in Ibadan, stealing about 300 motorcycles, freezers, power generating sets and grinding machines procured for December empowerment in the lawmaker’s constituency. Folarin who represents Oyo Central Senatorial District of Oyo State at the Senate, in an interview during a youth training in modern agriculture techniques rebuffed assumptions by many who th...