•Go ahead, open your shops – Govt
•Warns monarch against confrontation
•Markets, shop owners defy govt order, close shops as directed by monarch
•Isinkan community, disobeys monarch, says they’re not under Akureland
By Dayo Johnson, Akure
Markets and shops remained closed in Akure, the Ondo state capital as directed by the Deji of Akureland, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi in observance of the Aheregbe festival. This was in defiance of the counter directive given by the state government that markets and shops must open business.
Markets and shops were closed across the state capital except in the Isinkan community, where they insisted that they were not under the authority of Deji of Akureland and did not observe the Aheregbe festival in the Isinkan kingdom.
Oba Aladelusi, had said that, “the closure of the markets became necessary as part of the requirement in observing the age- long tradition of the annual Aheregbe festival.
It is important to emphasize that…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
