The final burial rites of the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II, was performed on Friday, but his wives, children and family members were unable to pay their last respects as they were barred from the programme.
Some other people who had expected to see the body of the monarch lie in
state were also disappointed as his remains were neither brought out for people to see nor was any casket displayed during the burial service.
The event was attended by the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Rear Admiral Akin Aduwo (retd.), Gen. Alani Akinriande (retd.), Senator Babajide Omoworare, Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko and many other dignitaries and government representatives.
Traditional prayers were offered for the late monarch by Tadimole Awo Ilare, Chief Faloba. The event was conducted in less than three hours.
A source at the palace revealed that no member of the royal family was allowed to see the remains of the monarch since he was brought back to the palace.
He said, “As we are holding this interdenominational service here, those concerned are performing their own rites inside the palace where the body is kept.
“You can see that the gates of the palace are locked and nobody is allowed to go inside. Nobody can see him again except those who will bury him.
“The wives and children were not even supposed to see his corpse at all but tradition was broken this time around because he (Sijuwade) died in London. But no family member can see him again. Those performing the rites are there now and they will complete it . He will be buried in the middle of the night, but nobody will be there apart from those who will lower him into the grave.”
A palace source told Punch that those who saw the bodies of the previous Oonis were attacked by smallpox and did not survive the ailment.
A monarch in Osun State, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, disclosed to punch that traditional rulers of the town went to various shrines, including the Obalufon shrine in Ife to perform some rites for Sijuwade on Friday.
He said the traditional rulers later went into Ooni’s palace shortly before an interdenominational burial service for the king commenced on the palace premises.
The monarch said, “Nobody can see the Ooni, not even the US President, Barrack Obama. We are with him. It’s only the initiates who can see him. His wives and children cannot see him.”
Edited from Punch
Did i just read Small pox attacking anyone that sees it, hnmmmm! This means that i hv to be careful the way i look at dead bodies posted on blogs.
ReplyDeleteI no fit shout abeg!
I'm sure even his wives and children knew this was going to be the case.
DeleteOf course there would be a lot of traditional rites that the layman cannot witness.
May he RIP.
Click my name for all your celebration cakes and cupcakes, cheers
In fact from now on I will be very careful around Yoruba's..they are too demonic and jazz filled for my liking no matter their level of education and exposure.Tufia.spits and walks away.Bite me!!!
DeleteBcoz dem must bury am without head & heart! Them go use am do rituals for the coming king! Na tradition
DeleteThey can't see the corpse probably because some parts of the body are missing. #justsaying
DeleteThe family of the deceased knows this tradition so why pretending as if they don't know.most Yoruba kings' funeral are always like that.because the traditionalists must have cut many parts of his body like his heart and co.
DeleteThe parts cut off will be eaten by the next king and other ritualists as that is the tradition. More reason why he will be buried at night only with the ritualists.
Mon Ami ur level of tribalistic stupidity amazes me? Where are u from? Hell fire? Cant u read that he was a king? Wherever the heck u're from, dont they perform traditional rites? Mumu! Pple like u need to be shot at a gun range! Fool
DeleteOnly initiates can see him...wonderful!
DeleteIt's like to be a king in african society,u have to embrace occultism and traditional religion.
What's the use of the service they are conducting?its a mockery of Christianity abeg!they should come off it!
Interestingly, Ooni gave his life to Christ before he died. He even predicted his own death.
DeleteMoney maker rmbr hw I see to always abuse ur idiotic excuse of a human Mon ami don't let me incluse u
DeleteDid i just read Small pox attacking anyone that sees it, hnmmmm! This means that i hv to be careful the way i look at dead bodies posted on blogs.
ReplyDeleteI no fit shout abeg!
Nobody can see the Oni? What about those in London who saw him?
ReplyDeleteY won't we be backward as a country when we still practice some traditions that ought to hav died with d stone age
Delete@anon 7:24,according to Yoruba belief they they will all die of chicken pox.
Delete*small pox
DeleteRip to the dead
ReplyDeleteSuperstition abeg,how person wen don die go cause chicken pox and death?
ReplyDelete@jeniffer,I don't even know why Yoruba people still believe in all these nonsense.
DeleteMumu,the way you speak at times makes me wonder,as if other tribes have thrown away their own culture
DeleteHow many heads was he buried with?
ReplyDeleteSmall pox, really.
OK.
77 and counting
Delete@olivia silk,according to Yoruba tradition, only one person will be buried alive with him.
DeletePls Money maker,don't tell me u believe dAt.as in,biko don't even repeat it.see as I just dey imagine a human being bn buried alive.as in,d mere tot just messed up my morning.
DeleteYou people should stop saying what you don't know!
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DeleteMoney maker, dem say the guy don elope oo, he z called the 'bobaku'....always wt the Ooni whereva, eating whateva he eats and drinking whateva he drinks, inshort doing whateva he does, so when d ooni dies, he must also die wt him bt now Nigga don run oo, immediately he was pronounced dead at london, d man eloped sharply
DeleteHmm scary. May God deliver us. Amen.
DeleteTGW, it is as real as 'F'...this is where I come from, Yes! The man to be buried alive wt him is called the 'BOBAKU'. He is on the run presently and dz is d first time such thing is happening, them enjoy 2geda, so dey must die 2geda. The Bobaku is a title on its own
DeleteSo if they don't find the 'bobaku ',, what will happen?
DeleteI said it before that Yoruba people should look into some of these their traditions that are not compatible with the modern man and civilisation.
ReplyDeleteHow can you bar the family of the dead from seeing the corpse of their loved one before burial?
Which other tribe on earth does that?
You are such a tribalistic fool!!! Start acting your age and stop being a nuissance.
DeleteMiss E.
Make dem try. We don't want to see before. May his soul rest in peace. And I hope no innocent soul was buried with him. @ the end of d day, he Oba will still ans to God almighty.
ReplyDeleteWell,it's for their own safety. But I think the
ReplyDeleteworld has lived past all this superstitious nonsense.
Blood of Jesus strong pass dem...inukwa small pox and no one survived?
ReplyDeleteNdi eze and d tins they do eeeh...God pass dem
Plus holy Ghost fire.
DeleteWhat a tradition!
ReplyDelete@adanne,you dey mind Yoruba people?after them go dey make mouth on top.
DeleteGo back your hamlet and learn what is practice there and why your people will kill their own brother to have his property and treat his widow badly.
DeleteThey might have probably dismembered his body according to the terms and conditions of his office. And for the smallpox issue... maybe it doesnt affect white ppl.
ReplyDeleteSerious agbasa...
ReplyDeleteSmall pox kwa.
ReplyDeleteSomething that has been obliterated from the world, decades ago.
Issoriat.
#WhiteDiamondOut
No casket was seen.
ReplyDeleteWives n children not seeing him.
Na wah o!
And dAt Small pox Something.Really???
Guys,d children already travelled to london to see his body,d wives were also there.atleast gbite did his wedding with all his family members in attendance and dey were hale n hearty.let d traditionalists b doing their own,baba gave his life to christ b4 he died.
DeleteAnonymous 10:56 did ur baba tell you that he gave his life to Christ ? But wetin concern me sef, is it my life?
DeleteChineke na fu kwa ekwensu ike.
Anonymous is right. He gave his life to Christ on the mountain top in Osun State. And predicted he would be absent from Gbite's wedding
DeleteShrine then interdenominational service. Mixing religion with idolatry. Jokers.
ReplyDeletemtchewwwwwww
ReplyDeleteNa dem sabi!
ReplyDeleteI dey with you. Nah real na them sabi. Whatever ......
DeleteChaï,ndi Yoruba sef
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmm oh chim!
ReplyDeleteThat's d normal traditional rites for a king,oba no dey die,so his corpse can never be seen by ordinary people except the innitiates.
ReplyDeleteSmh
ReplyDeleteChic Felix that dp ain't urs NA. its ella's pix.
ReplyDeleteWhy do an interdenominational service when they have so engulfed him in the rituals and traditional things. What's the essence? Na wa. And did I read that people who see him like the others who passed away will be infected with small pox? Mehn! We are still learners where these people are oh.
ReplyDeleteTradition is Tradition! Say what u may but whats dine is done. Everyone in the late ooni's family and circle have known this all their lives! Did u knw that no Oba can look at a dead body? Let alone his own body be seen? Even the queen of england cannot look at a dead body because a monarch cannot be presumed dead! Thats why u can never say an Oba died, u say the Oba has joined his ancestors. Even the queen of england cannot be pronounced dead! Thats why when theres a new monarch on the throne of england, at the coronation they say "the king is dead, long live the king!" The way the monarchs do their thing isn't same as the way of the layman. And guess what? The abobaku didnt run away as was said, he was buried with the king for sure and he knew it since the day he was born that be wud be buried with the ooni when the time comes. The abobaku family are only born for this purpose solely, say what u may, they only said he ran away so that there wont be an uproar from the civilized world. But truth be told, even the Bible says: Unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's
ReplyDeleteIt's becos of people like you that I read this blog!
DeleteYou don't mean it! So the abobaku willingly lies in the grave to be buried alive?! I shudder!!! Born to die a horrible death!! Wow!!!
They where so many hilarious memes about that that Abobaku running away on social media.. I had a good laugh..
DeleteAnonymous 10.05 has said it all as long as the tradition doesn't hurt anyone.. llet them do their thing biko.
You know every.
DeleteThank you.
I like people who know what they are saying. Well said jare. I can't trade Christ for nada but tradition must take its course. There are so many intriguing facts about royalty. Like now, a king cannot bow to any other king, and a king cannot bow to an ordinary person, else he dies. A king cannot see blood as well.. And so many other stuff.
DeleteGod bless you anon.
DeleteThanks for the enlightenment..
Serving gods and God at the same time. Odiegwu.
ReplyDeleteWho dem help abeg
ReplyDeleteRip sir, respect ur tradition pple especially the harmless ones. When we saw Kate n Williams wedding did we all not liked the overt display of the British age long tradition? As e reach our own oyibo words don enter, archaic, babaric, meadiocre etc pls be good with what you ve got.
ReplyDeleteMrs mustapha,if I may ask.How many British citizen were buried alive then to please the gods?
DeleteThere can never be any justification for all this .It belong to the stone age.
Small pox???!!! This people are too fetish, only God know's how many people they killed just because of this man.
ReplyDeleteThe only time money maker comments is on Yoruba matters, you tribalistic gay pervert. He did not comment when his Igbo beggars were thanking Angel blaze yesterday, he did not abuse Angel blaze tribe yesterday for helping his beggar tribe, big fool. They will beg and accept alms from Yoruba and then abuse them and make tribalistic comments against them for no reason at all. All of you keep showing yourselves up, shameless people.
ReplyDeleteYorubas are known beggers and mediocre, so just shutup, igbos are not ass lickers, so do ur research very well, Efulefu ojo. In as much as I don't support people Discrediting oda people's trad. Let's respect African culture.
DeleteYeah dts all d idiotic money maker is known for
DeleteIn dis time and age....nawa oooo
ReplyDeleteThey did not abuse Ashafa's tribe either when he was feeding them...
ReplyDelete13:42 the hypocritical idiot direct your anger at mumu maker the bigot when you talk about respecting other peoples tradition
ReplyDeleteIgbo tribalists still posting from Yoruba land since 1900!!
ReplyDeleteAny Wifi where you come from!!
Anon 18:58,l hope you are not trying to claim the no man's land as a yoruba land.
DeleteOloshi ashiere money maker Iranian! It's your father's compound in your fucking village that is no mans land.
DeleteHow can you claim what is definitely and originally ones entitlement..go figure!!...keep posting your tribalistic bile from Yorubaland..you really have no shame!!
DeleteOdiegwu! God forbids, at this age and time?
ReplyDeleteYoruba people do not claim what is not theirs, they leave the claiming to igbo claimu.
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