While thinking of examples of what our world is going through, I can vividly remember a day when my gramma went to pick me from my elementary school.
It was quite unusual. In fact, unusual is an obvious understatement for that particular year.
In the first instance, apart from my first day in school, when we got registered, no parent had ever deemed it fit to either take me to or pick me back from school.
Second, we had barely finished the morning assembly when my gramma went to pick me. By the way, a similar thing happened to some other pupils.
I was to later learn that a man called Omo Pupa’s home was being besieged by the security forces in order to have the man arrested. The man, Chief Asani Isola Oluwo had been a strong supporter of the Action Group.
There was hardly any musician of note who didn’t sing his praises. At least, I can remember Ayinla Omowura’s record for him. He was known, not only in Musin, but throughout Lagos and Ogun States.
He thus had a cult followership!
But then, the military were then in power. He was, however, seen as a clog in their wheel of progress. With his followers, it was inevitable that something would happen.
Since I wasn’t there, I could only imagine how the theater of battle would have been.
Followers of Omo Pupa armed with sakabula, the dane gun and some traditional medicine used for war like afeeri and ayeta.
But then the security forces were backed by the federal and possibly state mights. They also had better instruments of coercion.
They faced each other.
But then, Omo pupa and his supporters were subdued.
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