A Yoruba socio-cultural group, Oodua Redemption Alliance, ORA, has said the Yoruba race is more than prepared to get cure for the coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the entire world..
The group also called on the governors of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti and Kwara States, as well as prominent Yoruba indigenes, to support the cause of achieving this.
The president of the group, Comrade Victor Taiwo, while addressing journalists in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, lamented that the various measures put in place by governments both federal and states, since the outbreak of the virus were all geared towards containing its spread.
He said getting a cure for the virus would put the Yoruba race on the world map for good.
He said as part of its determination to help in finding a cure for the virus, the group sent out a team to interface with local herbalists with the potential of curing the pandemic, disclosing that the management of the University of Ibadan was ready to assist with its facilities.
Taiwo maintained that the Yoruba race is blessed with local herbs which are good enough to cure incurable diseases given the right atmosphere and inspiration.
He noted that getting a cure for coronavirus would help the Yoruba race as the angel for the liberation of the world from the ravaging monster which coronavirus had made itself to be.
He said, “This organisation sent out a crack team of researchers to explore our local pharmacists or herbalists who claim the potentiality or dexterity of curing the pandemic. After taking the samples of their drug agents, we consulted with a veritable professor who is one of the leading pharmacologists in the country serving in the University of Ibadan who encouraged us to make every effort toward fighting the global menace with the support for us in all ways open to him.
“Today, we are in motion. And so, the next line action is to call on our state governments in Yorubaland as well as the well-to-do among us to rise to the occasion by supporting the required funding of this exercise. As we speculate, this endeavour might succeed at saving the whole world and giving us an envious place on the world map.
“Thus, as a direct challenge, we hereby call on all our governors of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti and Kwara states to collectively or individually rise to the occasion. We also call on well-to-do among us to rise in unison for the general rescue from the beast which does not respect or exonerate anyone whatever his status, whether rich or poor, young or old.
“We, therefore, call on the great people like His Imperial Majesty, Oba Fredrick Enitiolorunda, Obateru Akinruntan, the Olugbo of Ugboland; Dr. Mike Adenuga; Mr. Femi Otedola; Chief Kensington Adebutu; Mr. Bayo Ogunlesi (US); Chief Kase Kayode Lawal (US); Chief Oba Otudeko; Mrs. Folorunso Alakija; Dr. Wale Babalakin; Senator Rasheed Ladoja, and a host of others too numerous to mention, to rise to the occasion.”
