In mid-July 1999 a clash between Yorubas and Hausas was reported to have been sparked by Yorubas killing a Hausa woman who was outside of her home at night during the Oro festival (AFP 19 July 1999; PANA 19 July 1999; Post Express 22 July 1999).

AFP reported that "at least 66 people were killed" in Sagamu, a town about 80 kilometres northeast of Lagos (19 July 1999).
PANA reported at least 50 people killed and that "the Yorubas alleged that a Hausa woman had offended the local tradition by coming out Saturday night during a Yoruba 'Oro' festival. ... One version of the story said the angry Oro adherents reportedly attacked the woman, and her Hausa community members retaliated, resulting in the deaths and destruction of property" (19 July 1999).

BBC wrote that she was reportedly killed "after seeing the night-time procession" (19 July 1999).
Post Express reported that "trouble started July 17 ... when some celebrating Yoruba youths allegedly killed a Hausa woman who was said to have violated the 'stay-at-home order' during the annual Oro festival. In a flury of anger, the resultant attacks led to the killing of more Hausas by the Yorubas" (27 July 1999). IRIN reported that "the conflict erupted because Yoruba people said the Hausa community had refused to obey the traditional rule which requires non-participants in the festival to stay off the streets" (23 July 1999).

The Economist reported that "more than 60 people"
had died and the killing last week in Sagamu was started by the decision of the dominant Yorubas to take their traditional night- time religious parade, or masquerade, the Oro, through the Hausa area of town for the first time in nine years, and by the refusal of the Hausas to honour what the Yorubas insisted was their tradition of staying off the streets while it was passing (31 July 1999).

An article on the World Socialist Web Site states:
The conflict seems to have been sparked off after several days of a traditional Yoruba festival, the Oro. Traditionally those not involved in the festival are requested to stay off the street. Yoruba people spoke to a BBC reporter and said that the Hausas had not respected this tradition. The Hausas said they had been
attacked indiscriminately (17 Aug. 1999)

Dr. Frederick Fasehun, leader of the Yoruba Oodua People's Congress (OPC), stated:
In Sagamu, you know that the traditional Oro festival was going on when a woman, a guest among the Yoruba, violated the tenets of the Oro festival. When the Oro festival is on, no woman of any nationality should behold the Oro. Be such woman an Italian, English, American, South African or Yoruba, no woman should behold Oro with her naked eyes.
The penalty for such violation is death, no matter who the woman is. That was what
happened in Sagamu ( Tempo 10 Nov. 1999).

In additional information from this newspaper: TempoLife gathered that it was the failure to respect the hours of worship or to restrict the fetish to the sacred grooves that led to the clash between a section of the Hausa community and oro cultists in Sagamu last month. In a chat with the magazine in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Taiwo Oloyede, a traditional healer, said the
Sagamu tragedy could not have been the hand work of serious oro people since the Hausa woman allegedly killed by oro people did not vanish and her body was
found. A ki i ri ajeku oro, he said, meaning that if it were real oro people, her body would not have been found. "It
was a mere case of murder," he posited.

KillSars:
Wahala...

All diz oro no necessary but una just too get stone head...
Place wey get tradition, u talk sey na no man's land, haaaa, una get mind o....

During the oro procession..

1. Stay indoor
2. U fit dey hear some chant, I take God beg u, no peeping, u fit jam ur own through that process if u are unlucky, instant blindness, leprosy no go be ur case o
3. As for the ladies, just remain indoor, give caeser wetin Caesar want, na just one night, after that, it's over..

cornelin:


I can't count how many times I have peeped their procession at night from our balcony when I was young. Sometimes, it was with my sister.

My eyes still sees clear even through the dark till date..

Chinjo2:
Hausa keeps killing the yorubas but the Yorubas see the Igbos as their problem.

Chinjo2:
Hausa keeps killing the yorubas but the Yorubas see the Igbos as their problem.

Kenny9857:


You are just too full
I bet you're just a kid when the events we are talking about happened
I witnessed this from the beginning to the end..... Hausas are no match to the Yorubas... You can bet it , if they decide to start any war, they will be wiped out you fool