Gov. Oluwaritimi Akeredolu, has within his three years in office attacked the two most dreadful roads in Akoko land.

1. Oke-Oka Road ;

There was a portion of this road already conceded to the gods for the purposes of sucking human blood and eating of human flesh. The portion used to come with crushing accidents on weekly basis, and nobody traveled the road without this thought of death!

One accident that shook the foundation of Akoko happened along the stretch precisely on the 24th of February, 2007 and our Akoko land lost 24 souls on the same spot to a single accident ! Regrettably the entire 24 belonged to one single family of Pa. Ogunrinde who equally lost his own life and those of his two wives. They were returning from the first convocation ceremony of Adekunle Ajasin University where a son of the family was a graduand.

Accident on the same spot killed one of the greatest Amazons of Akoko land, Mrs. Adefarati, among hundreds of souls killed in autos crashes along that stretch of road.

Our children in the Federal legislative houses had tried all possible magics in persuading the Federal government to fix this Federal road without success, hence we surrendered to the myth that these blood sucking gods could not be stopped by ordinary mortal. In fact we believed that the gods were actually responsible for the failed efforts made by our elected representatives in Abuja.

Decades rolled by, governments came and went without any solution, until Gov. Akeredolu was elected. Few months after his election, he moved his men to the death stretch, and as usual only few would have taken him seriously given our previous experiences.

Surprisingly he has fixed this road despite being a federal road, an excuse that had become a cultural one to us, an accident has since become history around the area.
Akoko people no longer die on the spot.

Photo : When Aketi was fixing the death alley !

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