AKURE— MRS. Olufunke Olakunri, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, will be buried on Monday, July 22, 2019.
The deceased was killed by suspected herdsmen along Benin/Ore/Sagamu expressway last Friday.
A
programme of the funeral arrangements made available to newsmen in
Akure by the family said that a commendation/night of tributes will take
place tomorrow, Friday, July 19.
The burial ceremony will take
place at the Saito David’s Anglican Cathedral Ijomu, Akure by 11am,
while interment follows at the church cemetery.
According to the
funeral arrangements, the commendation/night of tributes will take place
on Friday July 19th at Harbour Point Wilmot road, Ahmadu Bello way,
Victoria lsland, Lagos by 5pm.
Olakunri’s murder, a slap on Yoruba nation —Maharaj ji
Reacting
to the murder of Mrs. Olakunri, founder of the One Love Family, Satguru
Maharaj ji has described the act as a slap on the face of the Yoruba
nation.
He said Olakunri’s murder goes a long way to prove that the Yoruba have almost abdicated from common sense.
Maharaj
ji said: “How can such a thing happen to a Yoruba leader’s child when
the oracles and deities are there to take care of it. All it takes is
regular appeasement, adoration and celebrations, eating and dining to
lubricate the Alajobi spirit in us, that goes on in every home in Yoruba
land to serve not only as a unifying force, but become the checks and
balances in the human system.”
He, however, called on Yoruba
monarchs and leaders to wake up from their slumber, saying “Any right
thinking Yoruba man knows that a child of Oduduwa, Ogun, Sango, Oya, Ifa
and other Yoruba Orishas dying through gun fire, accident, drowning,
illness, must have disconnected from our tradition and culture, either
by refusing to appreciate and or ignoring their core values, which was
deliberately covered by Europeans during the invasion of Africa
thousands of years ago.”
Akure community sets up local security outfit
Meanwhile,
the Akure Community has resolved to set up a local security outfit to
protect people at their various farm settlements and communities around
the state capital.
Addressing newsmen, a former Nigerian
Ambassador to Uganda, Otunba Omolade Oluwateru warned that “lawlessness
possessed the capability to make people to go for self-defence.”
Oluwateru
said: “Constituted authorities must be alive to their responsibilities
as enshrined in the Constitution and proper discharge of the security
responsibilities would be a safeguard against anarchy in the country.
“However,
we must declare that we are currently in deep mourning, occasioned by
the dastardly murder of a prominent Akure indigene, Mrs. Olufunke
Olakunri, daughter of our father, Pa Ruben Ayo Fasoranti, the Leader of
Afenifere, and by extension Yoruba leader.
“The killing of
Olufunke represents a new scourge, invasion of our lands by Fulani
criminals, now commonly referred to as herdsmen who have wantonly
killed, raped and destroyed across Yorubaland and it has now gotten to a
stage that the Yoruba nation must rise and declare enough is enough”.
“While
we mourn a distinguished daughter, we must say that we have now come to
the realization that Nigeria is indeed in severe problems, with
dwindling capabilities to discharge its responsibilities to the
citizenry.”
“Therefore, we now see these ugly developments
through an entirely new vista, which dictates that we must begin to
develop security models that will guarantee the arrest of this evil
trend and defend ourselves as a community henceforth,” he said.
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