2024 Lisabi Day: Balogun Woro Of Owu Kingdom, Fashina Calls For Unity Among Egba Indigens
In commemoration of 2024 Lisabi Day Festival, the Balogun Woro of Owu Kingdom and the CEO of Olageospatial Global Investment Company (OGIC), Surv. Olajide Fashina has called for unity among Egba indigens.
Fashina made this call on Saturday while speaking with the newsmen after his installation as the Balogun Woro of Owu Kingdom, Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.
He noted that the Lisabi festival is an opportunity for all Egba indigens to come together, saying that what is crucial in the celebration is to look for how it can bring oneness, so each and everyone can be abe to contribute his/her own quota for the development of their fathers’ land.
According to Fashina “there is still a need to fosters unity among our people there’s no much difference between the communities that makes up Egba land. We are one family, we are one brothers so it is important to foster unity and this Lisabi festival gives us the opportunity once in a year to unite as one and identify with our heritage.
“I think that is the most important thing that is seen at the 37th Lisabi festival. So what ever we are doing like the woro dance and celebration the most important thing and bottom line is how does it progress unity and how can this festival bring some indigens of the egba land together. So that they can contribute and put their quota for the development of Egbaland.
Fashina, while addressing the country’s rising commodity prices and housing deficit, he urged the federal government to implement mortgage facility in order to provide affordable homes for all Nigerians.
Fashina, a registered Surveyor and transformational Nigerian Entrepreneur noted that the delivery of affordable homes can only be possible through mortgage facilities.
He maintained that the country should imitate advanced countries where resident outrightly don’t buy houses again rather uses credit facilities.
“As a matter of fact affordable home is not possible what we should be looking at is mortgaging. If the governmentcan make morgage facilities available for the people so that people can rent to own their house. As they are paying rent they are going to subtract some amount of money they need to pay.
“So that if one lives 10 years or 20 years in a place you would know that within those years the government has already made provision of that money for the realtor to build and whereby you are paying to the government to own the place.
“So the government should do for the people as it is done in developed countries, people outrightly don’t buy houses again they buy using credit facilities.
In Abeokuta, the Egba people annually honour Lisabi Agbongbo-Akala, their legendary warrior and liberator, during a week-long celebration known as Lisabi Day.
This festival commemorates Lisabi’s role in freeing the Egba people from servitude under the Oloyo.
Fashina embarked on this ceremonial journey, riding a white horse from Latasu Compound in Owu to the Oke Ago Owu the Palace of Olowu of Owu Kingdom HRM Saka Adeola Matemilola, and later paid homage to the Alake, the Paramount Ruler of Egba Land, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, seeking blessings for another successful Lisabi Day Festival.