Residents of Benin Kingdom,
Edo State Capital, were weekend stunned to see traditional priests and
priestesses of different deities, native doctors, Ewuaise palace society and
different ancient traditional worshippers including Olokun and Ovia priestesses
in their regalia parading some major streets.
Fathers and nuns: Battling
with nature and celibacy
Their mission was to invoke
age-long traditional practice of cleansing the land and appeasing the gods
following the upsurge in cases of killings occasioned by armed robbery,
cultism, kidnapping, sacrilegious acts and the seeming inability of security
agencies to stem the tide.
Disturbed by the upsurge in
cases of violent killings occasioned by armed robbery, cultism, kidnapping,
sacrilegious acts and the seeming inability of security agencies to stem the
tide, the Benin Kingdom, here, weekend invoked age-long traditional practice to
cleanse the land and appease the gods for any infractions that may be
responsible for such acts.
The different traditional
worshippers, native doctors and priests in their hundreds besieged the ancient
Urhokpota ground in red attires with different traditional instruments of war
and unanimously heaped disastrous curses on those committing sacrilege in the
land and throne of the kingdom.
According to the native
doctors and traditional priests, the curses were also targeted at traditions’
violators, sponsors of cultism, kidnappings and other heinous crimes in the
kingdom.
Shortly after the
slaughtering of animals and offering of sacrificial materials to ancestors, the
various groups took turns to pray and lay curses on those violating the law of
the land.
The groups, thereafter, had
a precession to strategic places in the town including Sokponba Road, Kings
Square, Murtala Mohammed Way, Igbesamwan Street, Akpakpava Road and ended at
Emotan Shrine on Oba Market Road.
The exercise was presided
by the Ewaise Group headed by Chief Eguezigbon and Chief Ohen-Egie of Ogbeson.
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