There’s a yahoo plus epidemic ravaging Yorubaland; it’s now everywhere you go. Our boys are recklessly killing our girls and mothers. Many are leaving school or pretending to be in school for yahoo. Ritual killing is at an all-time high. No one, I repeat myself, no one is safe in Yoruba from this deadly scourge. Our hotels are no longer place of relaxation but slaughter slabs.
But the casualties are not only those who are dead; the dead are in fact the lucky ones with Yahoo Plus. Many destinies have been stolen or aborted. Our land is turning gradually into wasteland.
How much longer do we have to wait?
Even Yoruba mothers are not left out in the diabolical hustling. They have formed an Association of Yahoo Mothers, more like Murders. It doesn’t get more macabre and surreal than that. Yoruba mothers now say of their children, “Yahoo lo’n se” without fear but with pride. They also encourage their daughters to follow/date yahoo boys. Yeeeer! Eemo w’olu (the impossible is now the reality).
When did we turn this deadly corner? What happened to ‘ise logun ise’? What happened to ‘atelewo eni kii tan ni je’? What happened to “oun t’aba sise fun, loun pe lowo eni”? What happened to ‘eti wo loun gbo’?
How many Dangotes has money ritual/yahoo produced in Yorubaland?
Ahhhhhhhh. Omo Yoruba, sogba fo.
The insect that decimates the vegetable lives on its leaf. To continue watching what’s unfolding wide eyed is to give talubo and blindness free access.
Yoruba people and leaders, silence is no longer golden. The time to activate an actionable plan has come. All hands must be on deck.
All of us must come together and build a bulwark first, then go on the offensive against the evil roaming free on our land. Parents, elders, teachers and educationists, opinion leaders, sociologists and psychologists, traditional rulers and institutions, religious leaders, political leaders, sociocultural groups, town unions, Yoruba intelligentsia, OPC and Amotekun must raise their voices, righteous anger and wherewithal against Yahoo plus. Do not say it’s not your business. Remember mokanmokan; yahoo scourge is a pendulum, a deadly and nondiscriminating web in which both the wayward and innocent are easily entrapped.
Omo Odudiwa, ejeka ronu. E dide, iseya. Eemo ti w’olu.
Oodua a gbewa ooooo!
By Olumide Olugbemi-Gabriel
MBHS 95 Alumni Association 