Akala, Mushin: The beat goes on


Tucked behind Adedoja and Igbarere streets, off Ogunmokun Road, Mushin, Lagos State, is the dreaded street called Akala. Indeed, a first-time visitor without the courage to ask for its exact location from residents would need a compass to separate it from other adjoining streets.

In those days when it gained notoriety as a haven of hard drugs and spine-chilling crimes, it would be foolhardy for pedestrians to go near its entrance. Dotted by swarms of off-putting miscreants and scumbags, even the valiant among men would need more than guts to pass by the hoodlums.

So bad it was then, that you would need to either splutter Psalm 45 or hurriedly recite the entire Qurisiyu in the Quran to have a safe passage in the dreadful street.

At the height of its infamy, the biblical execution of two robbers with Jesus Christ on the cross at Golgotha was re-enacted when members of the Otunba Gani Adams-led faction of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) routed the ‘boys’ out of their enclave and apprehended a suspected, notorious robber who had turned the street into his den from where he spilled hell on residents.

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old boy i used to live in that getho oh .long time ago