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Oba Adetoyese Olakisan a traditionalist has frowned at the open display of the corpse of late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, saying that he should not have been displayed outside for people to see before being buried.
The traditionalist made his position known on Sunday adding that the late Alaafin wasn’t installed by the church or mosque.
He noted that the same process that brought him in as Alaafin should have been used to bury him to avoid any kind of repercussions.
The traditionalist who is an Ogboni chief expressed concern about the incessant death of Monarchs in the South-Western region of the country, although admitted some were already old.
He, however, insisted that the monarchs were not old to remain on the throne if certain things were done according to the traditions of Yoruba people.
He warned against surrendering Yoruba traditional religion to the domination of foreign religions to avoid negative consequences.
“During the installation of the Oba, he was not installed in church or mosque. A process was followed before his installation. How his corpse was displayed outside during a prayer session by some Islamic clerics is against the tradition. It is a taboo.
“So many Obas are passing on. These are Obas that were installed in a proper Yoruba way. These monarchs that died were not too old to remain alive. They are Obas. They should live long.
“We have allowed foreign religion to dominate our own traditional religion. We didn’t start as Muslim or Christian. We all started as traditionalists. We should return to our traditional ways of handling certain situations,” He lamented.