Indeed, in Kogi State many top-level civil servants have committed suicide after being owed for over a year by this rookie of a politician known as Yahaya Bello. But this time around, the Kogi State governor, a maverick politician surpassed all his irritating controversies when he left the arena of physicality to symbolically ‘pollute’ the sacred. In some other communities, certain rituals must be done to appease the ancestors should a woman accidentally touches the masquerades. As far as the people are concerned, they are ancestral spirits who periodically visit their living forebears in masquerade forms. The donations made to the Kogi masquerades, which reportedly took place during the last Ekwechi (masquerade) festival in December have been described as the height of absurdity by Faleke.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2018 04:07 UTC