GOVERNOR AMOSUN:ORISADAYO
IN PLENTY, BUT IN POVERTY
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU
OGUN RIVER AT ONE OF ITS TRIBUTARIES
………………………………………………..COMMUNITY APPEALS TO AMOSUN OF OGUN
STATE FOR SUCCOUR
………………………………………………..WISHES FOR AMOSUN TO HELP BUILD
ROADS,SCHOOLS,HOSPITAL,
AND HELP UPGRADE MONARCHY STATUS
………………………………………………MONARCH WISHES TO BE UPGRADED FROM BAALE T
OBA ORISADAYO
……………………………………………….VILLAGE NOW AT LEAST 260 YEARS AND VERY
RICH IN AFRICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE
………………………………………………..PRESENCE OF MINERAL RESOURCES LIKE
GOLD,BLACK CLAY,PETROLEUM,COPPER,LIMESTONE,ALL BELIEVED TO BE IN INDUSTRIAL
QUANTITY
……………………………………………….VILLAGE LOCATED IN IFEKOWAJO LOCAL COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT AUTHOURITY[L.C.D.A]
………………………………………………..5,000 HECTARES OF LAND TAKEN BY STATE
FOR AERODROME PROJECT NOW IN STRONG DISPUTE
…………………………………………………COMMUNAL CLASHES BETWEEN
IHUNBOR,ILASHE,IPOKHIA AND AGUDE-ORISADAYO COMMUNITIES OVER LANDED RIGHTS
The people of an ancient community in Yewa area of Ogun
State ,Nigeria are now pleading with Governor Ibikunle Amosun to rise up to his
electoral promises and mandate by providing for them what they believe will be
part of the regimes lasting legacy if executed fully.
In an exhaustive two hour long exclusive interview and
commercial strategic session with the News Office Desk of Paedia Express
Multimedia Group in Lagos, Nigeria, the Baale of Agude-Orisadayo village,Chief
Adeogun Liasu Adisa Kenhinde said that they were seriously in need of governement’s
patronage.
He noted that the 260
years village was recently carved into Ifekowajo Local Council
Development Area by the state government as new local councils were created.
He explained that at least 5,000 hectares of their communal
land that was carved out by officials of the state for an aerodrome project was
soon taken over by some commercial farms under a term that was alien to them
,the original owners of the land.
He listed the current beneficiaries of the land to be the
following farms:Oladipo Farms,Adejumoh Farms and Obasanjo Farms,also fondly
called Agbeloba Farms.
He assured that a mineral resource called Black clay was
discovered in the area just last year ,2015 and pointed out that this was used
for mugs and tiles aside from several
others yet undiscovered.
He revealed that the community presently has a farmers’
cooperative Association and through this
they have being able to fight poverty through the adequate provision of soft
loans to procure pop corn machines,fertilizers,cassava stems,corn seedlings in the
last two to three years.
He lamented the absence of schools,roads,hospitals,good pipe
borne water, saying he was sure that if these were available he was sure that investors
will troop in en mass to the area.
His words:”From our community to Sango Otta will take not
more than 45minutes as usually there is
no traffic and from Sango Otta to Ikeja may be another hour by road due to the
busy Lagos traffic,Our village is very close to the Idi-Iroko Border post”
“in 2012,2013,I created some level of public awareness as I staged
the Agude-Orisadayo Day,we have a river called the Agude River and this links up
to the Ogun River and the Lagos Lagoon”
Though we are connected to the national grid but we here
that the state government wants to start rolling out on its planned solar
energy project in our area as the field surveys in our area continues”
“our land is slopy in nature hence very fertile ,we need the
government to support our people so that they can be empowered for mechanized
farming,we have Egungun festivities that takes place usually around March every
three years and we also do Ogun Ajobo,Eleyinle Festival or Alaragbo Festival”
“we also believe that our river has very strong healing
properties as this was what our forefathers drank with no known ailment at all
hence we plead to the state to help develop its tourism potentials, we also
have Gbolohunkan shrine in owo which is very close to Orisadayo and also we
have the Yewa festival day in Owo annually
but again we do hope that the Ogun State Arts and Council will
intervene on the progress of this major
tourist landmarks “
The cultural activist while picking holes in government presence
in the area lamented that despite the provision of two additional classrooms to the only primary school in the
village they were currently not having enough teachers in the area as he added
that they were now around 3,000 in human population in that area of the state.
He begged the state
government to help them upgrade their communal health centre to a hospital
,establish a post office,build a good road,a stand and college to help in the
educational up liftment of their wards and help to expand the village’s only
existing market.
He recalled that the Adeogun royal family were the first settler in the village as they
emigrated from the Old Oyo Empire since they were the direct descendant of the
great Bashorun Balogun Ogunmola of Ibadan in the olden days and this was in
1760.
“Adeogun:the progenitor of Agude-Orisadayo was a hunter during his lifetime but before he
he settled there he had consulted Ifa in about 6 places and when he got to the
7th place Ifa said that this was where he will settle down”
“we have communal clashes with Ipokhia,Ihunbor and Ilashe
villages presently over our respective landed boundary rights and now we are
expecting that the state government can help us in bonday adjustment as well”
He continues:”Oba O.O.Fagbenro Lajulo ,the 2nd ,oloke-Odan of Oke -Odan land
is the prescribed ruler over the area but am only a Baale but we too now wish
to have our own King as well,Agude -Orisadayo is an ancient community and so are due to have our own monarcy”
“when the Adeogun royal family pioneered this area by
settling in,they later accommodated the Ojoosi,Adejumoh,Tetede,Agboola,Fetuga
and Olatunji families in the village as well”
It was also gathered that the village had such shrines like
Igbo –egun,Igboro,Ojuelegba and Agude Shrines through which the villagers use to appease the gods of
the land…
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