Danger is reportedly looming in Oyo Kingdom, Oyo State, where Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi has just gone to join his ancestors.
The looming danger is over the missing seven sacred crowns of the kingdom.
The oldest Olori, Ayaba Ramat Adedayo Adeyemi and second wife of the late Alafin is at war with those who brazenly invaded Aafin and stole the crowns.
Ayaba Adeyemi gave an indept story on a TV interview of how the precious crowns of the late Alafin were dubiously taken from the palace by one of the newly titled chiefs of Oyo kingdom.
According to Olori Ramat Adedayo Adeyemi, some hoodlums invaded the late Alafin’s palace and set fire on some of the buildings including the one that housed the seven crowns of the late Alafin and looted his belongings like cash and gold jewellery.
She said her own quarter was not touched but she felt concerned for the crowns which she is the custodian of being a product of the family where the crowns are made. She’s claimed also to be knowledgeable of the traditionals rites necessary to do before any of the crowns could be handled by anyone otherwise there would be irrevocable dangers.
Ayaba Ramat said she took a large bowl to the house where the crowns were to be quickly taken for safety before they got burnt.
Afterwards she said she sent for Chief Osiefa on whose lap mama reported that Alafin died to help her find a safe place for them.
She also said she advised Chief Osiefa to get the assistance of someone trustworthy to carry out the assignment but to her surprise Chief Osiefa called Chief Mogba whom mama said her late husband made a chief barely three months before he died.
She said she wasn’t happy to entrust Chief Mogba with her late husband’s gold and coral bead crowns.
She claimed that Chief Osiefa was closer to the late Baba Alafin and she trusted him but was disappointed that he got Chief Mogba involved in the assignment.
Nevertheless mama said the men needed to kill a goat before they could take the crowns to a safer place from where she kept them temporarily and Chief Mogba reportedly took N15,000 from mama for the sacrifice.
Later on Mama said the two chiefs took the crowns and she expected that they would come to inform her where they would keep them.
Instead she said both Chiefs Osiefa and Mogba in the company of the white man that worked for the late Alafin took three of the crowns each and left one behind.
Mama said she confronted Chief Osiefa why he should allowed Chief Mogba to take any of the crowns away to his own place against her wish.
She said she demanded for the return of the crowns in the care of Mogba instantly and got the police involved.
She requested that the police should engage the assistance of the OPC to go and search Mogba’s house for the crowns but the police reportedly said they would rather take him to the police station.
Mama said she got really angry and felt that she had let down her late husband who had made her the custodian of the crowns.
Enraged, Olori Ramat sought the company of the Bashorun of Oyo, Chief Osiefa and three other chiefs to go to Chief Mogba’s house to collect the crowns he took away.
Mama said one of the chiefs said he couldn’t go with her because Chief Mogba’s hoodlums would kill him because they had surrounded themselves with some miscreants who were armed with dangerous weapons like guns and cutlasses.
Still mama wasn’t scared by the information shared and she went ahead to Chief Mogba’s house.
On arrival to Mogba’s house Olori Ramat demanded the crowns and Mogba refused to part with them.
Mama declared that she slapped Mogba and Mogba rough handled her.
She displayed to the camera her badly bruised right hand.
The people around the scene reportedly pacified mama who had said that she would remain in Mogba’s house until she retrieved the purportedly stolen crowns.
The peacemaker -chiefs eho were around them- advised the Olori to go home and promised that they would ensure that the crowns were returned to her.
She said she wasn’t disappointed in the behaviour of Chief Mogba whom she described as a ‘miscreant’ and who didn’t deserve the chieftaincy title that Baba gave him before he died.
When Olori Ramat was asked how she would feel if he got the Oyo State governor and the public involved in the matter, she said she would be more than happy because if the crowns were not returned to the palace she would be letting her late husband and the princes down.
She said: “I am fighting for the late Alafin’s male children whom the missing crowns belong to by right.”
The Olori said all her children were females but that the princes treated her well and would always go yo any length to look after their interest.
Also she said she suspected that her late husband’s white staff member might be involved in the purportedly stolen crowns. (Newspot)
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