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AWUJALE: PRACTICE OF EATING DEAD KING’S HEART MUST STOP – SHEHU SANI
A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has called for the total abolishment of fetish practices associated with traditional stools in different parts of the country.
Such fetish practices come alive mostly during royal successions when a traditional ruler dies in some parts of the country.
In some parts of the country, the successor to the late king would be made to eat the heart of his predecessor before his burial.
Writing on X on Wednesday, Sani said he was delighted that such traditional practices are now fading away.
“I’m delighted to see that many traditional institutions in this country are dropping the fetish practices associated with royal succession when their Kings or Chiefs die,” he wrote.
“There is a community in the central part of this country where the new monarch has to ‘eat the Heart’ of the late Monarch before ascending the throne.
“I hope they have stopped. We must separate our culture from barbarity.”
DAILY POST reported earlier that the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, said he was satisfied with how the late Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, was buried in accordance with Islamic rites.
The monarch who died on Sunday at the age of 91 years, was buried the following day at his residence in Ijebu Ode.
It was gathered that the interment process was carried out by muslim clerics, as security operatives, including soldiers, barred traditionalists and members of the Osugbo cult from handling the burial.
