Following the strange disease that has killed dozens in Ode Irele community in Ondo State, the Oyewoga of Irele, Chief Moses Oyewole, has said the deity is responsible for the deaths. On what may be the cause of this strange disease, Oyewole told Punch that,”During our community market day which holds every five days, some of the palace chiefs usually go to the Malokun shrine located within the area to offer prayers to it to protect the state and bless the community and its indigenes both at home and in the Diaspora. While we left the shrine exactly 10 days today, some hoodlums invaded the shrine and carted away effigies and historical artifacts belonging to our forebears kept in rooms in the shrine.”
Oyewole added that as a result of the theft, the community chiefs “went to the shrine and invoked the spirit of the deity, requesting it to punish those who looted the shrine.We asked Malokun to make them blind and kill them all. Few days after, we started hearing that some persons had headache, went blind and died few hours after. Some of them turned black no matter how fair-skinned they were before the illness.” The chief said they had appealed to Irele people “to be calm and know that tradition works. It is true.”
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