Shield your territories with supernatural powers – Ooni to S’West monarchs

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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has urged conventional rulers in Yoruba land to not abandon the usage of supernatural energy in defending themselves and territories towards assaults by bandits.

This was disclosed yesterday in the course of the maiden version of Yoruba Safety Summit held on account of insecurity within the Southwest and killings of royal fathers in Ekiti and Kwara states.

The monarch warned conventional rulers not focused on supernatural energy to vacate the throne.

“Any Oba who’s disinterested in Yoruba tradition and customized ought to abdicate his throne for anybody who’s deeply versed and focused on Yoruba traditions,” he stated.

On the finish of the summit, a communique was issued and signed by Ooni of Ife, alongside different monarchs, together with Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Ogunlade; Owa-Ajero of Ijero Ekiti, Oba Joseph Adewole; Akarigbo of Remo, Oba Babatunde Adewale Ajayi, amongst others.

The communique stated: “Yoruba individuals ought to take full management of their forests, homelands and farmlands.

“Amotekun Corps must be strengthened by way of motivation, funds, coaching and retraining of personnel and that those that are conversant in nooks and crannies of our forests must be recruited into the Amotekun Corps.

“The Yoruba, particularly conventional rulers, ought to make recourse to their pure assets, together with pure powers, to fight banditry and kidnapping; that Yoruba Obas mustn’t jettison conventional values.

“The complete Obas in Yorubaland ought to work in unison to thrust back the evils of banditry and kidnappings, as every of the states can solely achieve chasing the marauders to a different state.

“Southwest governors ought to set up Regional Safety Summit on the earliest practicable time, together with all stakeholders to chart the way in which ahead and provides enamel to all of the considerations raised at this summit.

“The safety summit requires sturdy help for the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu within the bigger curiosity of Yoruba race.

“The safety summit calls on Yoruba conventional rulers to return to the pristine Yoruba conventional, non secular and cultural values.

“Always, the standard rulers ought to acknowledge that, regardless of no matter nature of faith they observe, they have to acknowledge that the stool they preside over is conventional.

“The summit calls on native, state and federal governments to make use of use of drones and different acceptable know-how for the efficient surveillance of Yoruba forests and roads.

“The summit agrees that the Yoruba safety summit must be held on a quarterly foundation in order to seize intervening and supervising variables in our polity.”

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