2024 Obalogun festival: ‘No shortcut to prosperity’ – Owaloko warns against cultism, yahoo-yahoo
His Royal Majesty, the Owaloko of Iloko-Ijesa, Oba Akeem Olusayo Ogungbangbe, has urged youths to avoid cultism, yahoo business, and other vices.
The monarch also advised the youths to refrain from engaging in any sort of violence or criminal activity that would endanger their lives or damage the community’s peace and stability.
While praying for the young and elderly at the Obalogun shrine, Oba Ogungbangbe emphasized that cultism and yahoo business yield no genuine benefits other than ruin.
He remarked that Iloko-Ijesa youths should learn from the sudden deaths or how terrible the lives of people who engaged in cultism and fraud in the past have been.
“We’ve seen and read about cultists being slain in cold blood at their moments of joy and delight. There are other folks that start a Yahoo business and end up bankrupt and financially devastated and could no longer be useful to themselves or society,” he noted.
While expressing concern about the rise of cases of cultism and fraud, the king advised young people to engage in legal businesses and value labor.
“Youths must believe in hard work. There is no short corner to prosperity. Young people do not want to work again. They simply want to become wealthy and influential without working for it. “We need to promote key values and encourage excellence,” he added.
