Old women of Akungba Akoko community have commenced traditional acts of spiritual cleansing of the community against evil spirits and bad luck.
This move was done contrary to wild speculations making the rounds that Akungba Akoko has been exhibiting negligence over incessant accidents bedeviling the University town.
The aged women, today trooped out in their numbers holding brooms and chanting songs of 'enough is enough'.
According to our correspondent, the women who earlier converged at the Palace of Alale of Akungba, went straight to the hilly part of the community sweeping away diabolical spirits believed to be the cause of the continuous predicament.
Earlier, Christian and Muslim faithful in Akungba have been undergoing sessions of prayers and fasting, with the belief that "the demons behind the rampant accidents" would be curbed.
Not to be left behind, the traditionalists in the University Community approached the Palace of Alale of Akungba for permission to appease the gods of the land, for prayers and spiritual cleansing.
Speaking with one of the women who simply identified herself as Deborah, she said that the main thrust of the exercise is to avert road accidents that have claimed many lives in Akungba.
It will be recalled that many people had died from trailer accidents in the last six months in the University Community.
Deborah believes that the cleansing was not meant to harm anybody both indigenes and non indigenes, but done to stamp out diabolical powers.
However, the Alale of Akungba, Oba Sunday Ajimo, Adeyeye III, said the community is not relenting in curbing incessant accidents, adding that the cleansing has nothing to do with the inhabitants.
"The narrow road on hilly topography in our community was never meant for the deluge of heavy duty vehicles plying it nowadays.
We shall continue to seek the intervention of governments at State and Federal levels. A dual carriage way and realignment of the windy hills would help. The construction of a bypass through Akungba to Epinmi may also take dangerous articulated vehicles off the township roads," the forward-looking Oba suggested.
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