A Yoruba socio-cultural foundation, Igbimo Omo Yoruba, has expressed concern over the increasing poverty, ignorance and disorder in Yorubaland. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday, the convener of the foundation, Adedamola Adetayo, said Yoruba people are steadily descending into the bleakness of an uncertain future for the coming generations.
Adetayo said: “We have observed a pattern of urban-rural migration which overtime has practically emptied the villages of our hinterlands reducing them to ghost centres, the unduly suffocating city centres and gradually the new and frightening levels of brain drain, a phenomenon now famously tagged Japa.
“We have watched keenly as our customs and culture being aggressively corrupted, our shared values being carelessly thrown out the windows of ignorance, all our rallying points including the exalted thrones of our Obaship being ridiculed and the sacred memories of our proud ancestors openly mocked even by our children.”
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