The Traditional ruler of Akinale in Ewekoro local government of Ogun State, Oba Olufemi Ogunleye, has appealed to sons and daughters of the ancient town, now scattered in various locations in the world, to come home and rebuild their ancestral homes in Akinale.
Oba Ogunleye, who was speaking during the township environmental exercise last Saturday regretted that despite the expansion of the town with modern structures in New layouts, the ancient site still habours derelict ancestral buildings, without which unfortunately, the history of the owners could not complete.
Akinale, some 25 kilometres, South of Abeokuta on the Abeokuta -Lagos road, is one of the Owu towns established by late Akanni Lapeleke, an arrow head of the Egba allied peace keeping force that checkmated the activities of interloping marauders, disturbing the peace of Abeokuta in early centuries.
Today, the town has graduated from a dreary slum into an economically productive center for food and cash crops.
Prominent personalities whose pedigrees were rooted in Akinale include former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Musiliu Smith, late Bernard Babatunde Sotade, the first Nigerian Commissioner of Scouts and acclaimed accountant with the Nigerian Railway Corporation, the foremost produce merchant in Ifo and Sarumi Egbaland, Chief Motayo, Premier Paint fame and educationist, Chief OgoOluwa Bankole and a host of others in Europe, America and other locations in the universe.
Oba Ogunleye directed the youths in the town to clear all the bush surrounding the dilapidated buildings with a view to preventing them becoming hide-out for criminals and reptiles.
Meanwhile the Monarch had sent special letters to all indigenes of the town resident in several parts of Nigeria and abroad to come and rehabilitate their ancestral homes in Akinale before March next year when Kabiyesi will celebrate 12th year coronation.
Oba Ogunleye standing by the ancestral relics of Akinale town.
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