“Blame Islam and Christianity For Nigerian Problems” Possu Awarawuru
By Information Nigeria August 19, 2012
A traditional chief in Badagry Local Government Area in Lagos State, Possu Awarawuru, has identified the advent of foreign religions as a bane of the country’s social problems. Mr. Awarawuruis is one of the seven White Cap Chiefs of Akran of Badagry, Wheno Aholu Menu Toyi Mr. Awarawuru made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Badagry during this year’s anniversary of the ancient town.“Before the coming of Christianity and Islam, our fore-fathers worship in their traditions and the society was peaceful and crime-free,’’ he said at the festival with the theme “Reconnecting with the Root.’’ He explained that before the coming of the two religions, Nigerians worship traditional religion and was guided by the values, morals and various injunctions, laid down by the divinities. According to him, without the two religions, the society will be crime-free, since traditional religious worshipers don’t chase materialism. “If you get to the prisons, Christians and Moslems are always there but you can hardly see an idol worshipper being imprisoned. ’’ He advocated for the return to African ways of worship, saying that worshippers of the various divinities including Ogun (God of Iron), Olokun (God of the River) and Sango (Thunder), always abide with the norms and injunctions of the deities. Mr. Awarawuru, who is also the head of the Possukoh Quarters, urged followers of foreign religions to stop calling traditionalists idol worshippers.
Badagry Festival Begins: Oba Akran Declares Badagry Festival Open.!
Published on August 14, 2012 by pmnews
In a gathering of who is who in Badagry Local Government Area, which took place at the local government Secretariat yesterday, Akran of Badagry, His Royal Majesty Oba, De Wheno Aholu Menu-Toyi 1, OFR, declared the famous Badagry festival open. He said civilization and religion had immensely affected our culture and this “has led to decadence in our moral and cultural values that has grossly affected our youth. This festival is in remembrance of our ancestral inheritance. We must not let it die. We do not know the value of what we have. Foreigners come down here to appreciate us. He implored the citizens to be law abiding all through the festival, reminding them that the world is watching. Delivering the keynote address, the Senior Special Assistant to the Chairman (SSA), Apata Nunayon, unveiled the theme of the festival titled RECONNECTING WITH THE ROOT.
Some U.S. black mayors are expected to grace this year’s Badagry Festival commencing on Friday, the organisers said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Mr Babatunde Olaide – Mesiwaku, the President of African Renaissance Foundation (AREFO), said on Tuesday that five black American Mayors...... Published By: Vanguard The 2012 edition of the Badagry Festival began on Friday at the Heritage Museum with the remembrance of victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Declaring the festival open, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tourism and Intergovernmental Relations, Mr Sewanu Fadipe, who represented Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and the Commissioner for Tourism, Mr Oladisun Holloway, recounted Badagry’s losses to the slave trade. “From my knowledge, the festival is built around the history of Badagry and the slave trade experience of the 16th century to the 18th century,” he said. Fadipe, who called for a minute silence for the repose of the souls of those slaves that died during slavery, said that the foundation of Badagry was as a result of six centuries of the evil trade. “Badagry has been affected by the slave trade since 1474 when the Portuguese came to buy our people, chained them and took them away into cities like Spain, Cuba, Brazil and Columbia for hard labour,” he said. He observed that though Badagry experienced pains from the trade, blacks in the diaspora had been able to export its culture and heritage tradition to the outside world. “I saw Zangbeto masquerade in Brazil, while a place was dedicated for the worship of Olokun too,” he said. Also speaking at the event, High Chief Possu Awarawuru of Badagry Kingdom, urged the people to shun foreign religion and embrace African traditional religion and way of worship.
Posted: at 20-08-2012 10:18 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
So the Boko Haramists and fake Pastors we have are clean ? Fela and Gani Fawehinmi once said that if our rulers were made to swear to the oath of Offices through either Ogun or Sango, they would behave well because these God(s) are nearer to us that God(s) of Israel and Saudi Arabia whose books they often use to swear oaths of offices. Read your Bibles, rituals are performed . Have you ever hear somebody bearing Akhabue or Ayeni in Israel or Saudi Arabia ? It is we Africans that bear foreign names and that is why we would remain third or fourth world to the white, not a curse but because of our self destruction. ============================ Flag as inappropriateI think the term "Idol Worshipers" is stereotypical. The proper term should be "Traditional Religious Practitioners"!
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