His Majesty Obi, Dr Emmanuel Efeizomor II, of Owa Kingdom has revoked a century-old ancestral curse placed on a section of the community, “Ogbe-Ohun quarter” in Owa Oyibu, headquarters of Ika North East LGA.
The ceremony was witnessed and supported by the council of elders and a large number of the community’s sons and daughters when the traditional rites of dispelling the ancestral curse were performed.
According to historical records, the Ogbe-Ohun quarter, a section of Owa Oyibu, was alleged to have challenged the authorities and powers of the immediate past King of Owa, Obi Efeizomor I.
Following this development, the king and the entire community of Owa laid a curse on Ogbe-Ohun quarter for denigrating the crown and bringing the name of their revered king to disrepute.
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A spokesman of Ogbe-Ohun quarter, Mr Samuel Chukwuka Ogboi, who recounted the story at a public gathering in the palace, lamented that the people of the quarter had suffered untold hardships, great misfortunes, and afflictions as a result of the curse.
He stated that the curse had wreaked havoc and negatively impacted the well-being of the people hence they collectively came to the palace to prevail on their king to forgive them and recant the curse.
After listening to their plea, the Owa monarch, requested for native chalk and prayed and asked God and the ancestors to hearken to the voice of the troubled dissidents and forgive them since they had owned up to their wrongdoing and asked for atonement.
While admonishing them to go and sin no more, Dr Emmanuel Efeizomor 11 cautioned that no evil act perpetrated by anybody would go unpunished.
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