{"id":152958,"date":"2021-03-19T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/?p=152958"},"modified":"2021-03-19T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T11:05:01","slug":"how-the-agbekoya-became-prominent-in-nigeria-aare-okikiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/how-the-agbekoya-became-prominent-in-nigeria-aare-okikiola\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Agbekoya Became Prominent in Nigeria – Aare Okikiola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The serving president of Agbekoya, Aare Kamorudeen Okikiola, <\/strong><\/em>and his team of executives visited Citypeople <\/strong><\/em>on Friday, 19 March 2021<\/strong><\/em> at its Corporate Office<\/strong><\/em> in Gbagada<\/strong><\/em>, Lagos <\/strong><\/em>to discuss the state of the organizations among other things,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president in his conversation gave insight into how the Agbekoya <\/strong><\/em>became prominent <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his testimony, he said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agbekoya <\/strong><\/em>established by the Baale Agbe<\/strong><\/em> in 1938 by Emmanuel<\/strong><\/em> Ayorinde <\/strong><\/em>the head of farmers. Pa Tafa Adeoye<\/strong><\/em> becomes the president in 1967. After that, there is a misunderstanding between FG <\/strong><\/em>and the farmers, that farmers should be paying tax and reduce the money of Cocoa, Cashew, and other farm produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The farmers and women protested and they were arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this time there was no oil, it was farming that Chief Obafemi Awolowo <\/strong><\/em>used to build the Cocoa house <\/strong><\/em>and all the things they did back then. The headache was too much for farmers and hunters and they held a combined meeting, this was in 1968. The army remained adamant and the matter went out of hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Police have Mark4 and they used it against the farmers. And the hunters only had local guns. The fight started in Ijebu<\/strong><\/em>. It later escalated in Ibadan<\/strong><\/em>. This was the time of Adebayo <\/strong><\/em>as a governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time people saw the movement as the revolt of farmers. The farmers stormed the prison and release their arrested farm. The battle became tough in Ogbomosho<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This historic event teaches us that we should not allow matter to degenerate into war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Oba <\/strong><\/em>of Ogbomosho <\/strong><\/em>was killed at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government went to consult the patron of Agbekoya, <\/strong><\/em>who was Awolowo<\/strong><\/em> and discussed in Mapo<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The farmers gave their condition that government should reduce the cost of tax and increase the sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the negotiation, the government announced through General Adebayo<\/strong><\/em> that the war was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not only the police that fought Agbekoya, but Nigerian soldiers also fought the farmers but they lost to the farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is when they knew that the\nYoruba\u2019s are powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The serving president of Agbekoya, Aare Kamorudeen Okikiola, and his team of executives visited Citypeople on Friday, 19 March 2021 at its Corporate Office in Gbagada, Lagos to discuss the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/AGBE.jpg?fit=640%2C612&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153238,"url":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/meet-the-key-men-who-run-agbekoya-farmers-assoc\/","url_meta":{"origin":152958,"position":0},"title":"Meet The Key Men Who Run AGBEKOYA Farmers Assoc.","author":"City People","date":"March 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, the leadership of the Agbekoya Society of Nigeria visited the City People office in Gbagada, Lagos. 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