By our Reporter
New yam festival is a celebration to mark the beginning and the end of farming season.
The Iwaro Oka residents of Akoko in Akoko Southwest local government, yesterday came out in their large numbers in different attires and masquerades to celebrate the new yam festival.
The event also coincide with the second year anniversary of their monarch, Oba Pius Akande, the Asin of Okaland.
The residents brought out drums and marched to the hill where their Okunre gods is situated to perform sacrifices and offered thanksgiving for bountiful harvest as well as pray for blessing ahead of next planting season.
Oba Akande led his chiefs to the shrine and only indigenes of the town were allowed in. There was firing of gunshots as the monarch stepped out of the shrine.
Shops and markets were shut in the town as the residents joined different dance groups. Mr. Osadare Dele, said they had to thank the Okunre gods to prevent loss in their next harvest.He said they recorded bountiful harvest this year.