Headline : Should Lagos Go Through Another Ruin?

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In Lagos, today, tensions are high and bursting at the seams. Isn't a protest that is potentially violent another bad idea? Shola Oyeyipo asks.

As an instructive takeaway from the story of Sango, the god of thunder and lightning, the Yoruba are quick to warn that, "whoever witnessed how Sango mysteriously vanished into thin air, in evident display of anger, would never knowingly denigrate the King of Koso."

Obakoso or Olukoso as Sango is otherwise called, actually means the king did not hang himself. This conclusion followed speculations that Sango had hanged himself after the thunder he created struck his palace and burnt it down. He had left the palace for a high rock directly opposite, to re-affirm the potency of his thunderbolt (edun ara).

The fire disaster, which extended to a large part of the city, sparked a riot, forcing people to curse Sango and demand his ouster from the throne. Instead, he left town on his volition, followed by chiefs and members of his royal cult, then known as Baba-Mogba, who tried to persuade him not to quit.

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