Information reaching Oriwu sun indicates that there will be strict movement restriction for residents of, and visitors to Ikorodu Town area today, Tuesday 23 to Friday 26, August, 2016.
The restriction is as part of the traditional ceremony for the annual Eluku Festival in the community.
Please note that this restriction is even more required of the female gender who must not be seen during the ceremony at the aforementioned time.
There are sordid tales of harassment of those who elect to violate the restriction in movement. Ikorodu residents are familiar with similar restrictions for another traditional Oro festivals, but only for a day.
Residents and other visitors are advised to stay off the streets during these hours.
Eluku’s role in our traditional society was that of executioner just as the osugbo was the traditional judiciary. It is interesting to note that in our traditional society was that it was run on the basis of absolute honesty.
It was said that if an occasion arose for the sharing of money, no individual had the right to check the amount that was decreed to be his share.
All he had to do was to stretch out his hands and put the money quietly into his pocket without any attempt to look at what was given out to him. Rank knew where he could sit down and what part of the carcass of an animal was due to his rank. Traditional, our fathers believed in ‘life after death.’ They were therefore scared stiff of doing anything immoral or dishonest.