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Demolished shrine: Ogun pastor recounts experience
A Pastor, Prince Adewale Fagbire, who was alleged to have been struck dumb and motionless has shared his experience.
He had invaded his community shrine at Ketu – Ayetoro in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun state and tried pulling it down. He told The Nation that though the town’s traditionalists assaulted him with “charms and other fetish objects,” but he was not “harmed” at all.
Fagbire, who is a Pastor at the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in Ayetoro area, said he actually entered the shrine, evacuated all the fetish items that were kept there and also took a position beside the entrance to it in quietness as instructed by God.
Prince Fagbire, son of the past Alaye of Ayetoro, Oba Taiwo Fagbire, who joined his ancestors in 1981 after his 20year reign in the agrarian community, said his late father and monarch, used to take him to the said shrine occasionally when he was alive.
September 29, The Nation
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