Soyinka Blasts Emir Of Ilorin For Banning Isese Festival

The festival is to celebrate Ifa spirituality and practice.

Soyinka, who is the Akintalun of Egba and Giiwa of Ijebu-Remo, noted that such conduct turned, before our very eyes, a once ecumenical city like Kaduna into a blood-stained mockery of cohabitation.

He added that such conduct made it possible for a young Col-lege of Education student in Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, to be lynched in the presence of armed police on a mere allegation of having belittled the image of a revered prophet.

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