{"id":4143,"date":"2025-01-10T20:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2025-01-10T20:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:37:01","slug":"yoruba-monarch-condemns-ritual-killing-curses-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/yoruba-monarch-condemns-ritual-killing-curses-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoruba monarch condemns ritual killing, curses colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4144\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/download-5-1-262x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/download-5-1-262x300.jpeg 262w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/download-5-1.jpeg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oba Akanbi<\/p>\n<p>By Publisher<\/p>\n<p>Kindly share:<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, the Oluwo of Iwo,\u00a0 Osun State, has stirred controversy by accusing Ekiti and Kwara monarchs of engaging in ritual killings.<\/p>\n<p>The Oluwo spoke in a video now trending\u00a0 online, calling out complicit royal chiefs, pastors, traditional worshipers and politicians.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIn the video, furious Oba Akanbi condemned the increasing spate of\u00a0bloodshed in the guise of tradition, spiritual renewal and power preservation.<\/p>\n<p>The outspoken monarch called out his Ekiti and Kwara counterparts, as well as royal chiefs, pastors, traditional worshipers and politicians, for perpetrating the heinous and repugnant acts.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAll the traditional rulers from Ekiti State to Kwara State must stop using human beings for any forms of rituals or sacrifice,&#8221; he thundered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop killing our children. Stop using human heads. Those you are killing are my children because I\u2019m a father to Yoruba land. We know some of the kings that are sacrificing humans monthly to elongate their lives and reigns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Oba Akanbi also unleashed curses on the perpetrators, invoking the wrath of the ancestors and the divine forces of Yoruba cosmology. He called for unrelenting justice against anyone that is involved in ritual killings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think we don\u2019t know, the all-knowing God knows, and he is telling us. I\u2019m warning kings, royal chiefs, native doctors, pastors, Alfas, including Ifa priests, politicians and others to stop killing our children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be your last. After this warning, you will not be fortunate if you dare use anyone again.\u201d<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, the Oluwo also prayed for the redemption of anyone who would repent from the evil practices, pleading for divine mercy to purge and restore their humanness.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oba Akanbi By Publisher Kindly share: Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, the Oluwo of Iwo,\u00a0 Osun State, has stirred controversy by accusing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,2],"tags":[1018],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-showbiz","category-news","tag-oba-rasheed-akanbi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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