Ijapa was alleged to have secretly gone to his father-in-law's barn to steal tubers of yam, and he was caught. Yanribo was the beautiful, patient, submissive, easy going and unromantic wife of Ijapa. Her father (name not disclosed for security reasons) must have been aiming to teach his popular or notorious son-in-law, Ijapa aka Alabaun a big lesson of his life and humiliate him because of Ijapa's perceived arrogance and nonchalant attitude to him.
Police vs Seun assault case is becoming the fabled story of the notorious tortoise (Alabaun) and his heartless vengeful excessive father-in-law. (Ana Ijapa).
Ijapa was alleged to have secretly gone to his father-in-law's barn to steal tubers of yam, and he was caught. Yanribo was the beautiful, patient, submissive, easy going and unromantic wife of Ijapa. Her father (name not disclosed for security reasons) must have been aiming to teach his popular or notorious son-in-law, Ijapa aka Alabaun a big lesson of his life and humiliate him because of Ijapa's perceived arrogance and nonchalant attitude to him.
It became great news in the community that Ijapa had been caught stealing his in-law’s yam. While people were going to the market very early in the morning, they saw Ijapa tied to a tree in front of Baba Yanribo's house, humbled and humiliated. Many people started hurling abuses at Ijapa on their way to the market and commending his in-law for catching Ijapa.
"Ijapa the lazy one who would not work, Ole eee." “Ijapa is too cunning and arrogant, let him die there." "Na God catch Ijapa today he must have been stealing before." "How did Ijapa even manage to marry Yarinbo with all these disgusting characters?" "Na you alone Ijapa? All public discourse is always about you..."
Ijapa was pained and looked subdued all through the torrent of abuses literally drenching him. His in-law was literally swimming in the river of applause from the community members.
But after sunset when the villagers were returning from the market, they were terribly shocked that Baba Yanribo, a bald-headed stocky fairly old man with variegated teeth and rustic moustache had kept his son-in-law, Ijapa, tied up since morning. Come and see and hear the outburst of the anger of the people who felt the old man had overdone an act of immorality and injustice to Ijapa because of stealing his yam.
"Baba Yanribo, this is unfair, are you sure it's all about stealing your yam or something else we don't know of?". "Haba! Do you want to kill your in-law because of yam? If you don't think of Ijapa, at least you should think of your daughter, Yarinbo." "But you can't be the thief catcher, witness, prosecutor and judge in your own case, why can't you take Ijapa to the King's palace for adjudication?” Yeepa! Baba Yanribo, why are you treating stealing as a case of murder? Yeye man." “This is unfair, since morning, you have tied Ijapa your in-law to this tree because of yam, that's unacceptable and immoral."
As the barrage of attacks, abuses and disapproval hit Baba Yanribo from angry villagers, suddenly a rotund fair complexioned bold woman with good conscience and with a no-nonsense abusive caustic voice suggesting her Ibadan heritage possibly from the Beere or Ode Aje area of the ancient city tore into the crowd with anger and called out Ijapa's in-law in a face to face challenge: "Baba Yanribo, Ijapa's in-law, why are you now forming integrity and victimhood when you too are notorious for stealing from people's farm including my husband's farm? You even attempted to rape me one time on my way to the farm. You are a notorious crook and fearless assaulter... " Her ‘verbal bomb’ at Ijapa's in-law animated many people to recount their terrible experiences in the hand of Baba Yanribo. It was a no holds barred session with their memories of the anguish suffered at the hands of Baba Yanribo.
In the twinkling of an eye that the "Iya Ibadan" exposed Baba Yanribo, almost every passerby had something bad to say about Ijapa's in-law: "Yes o, it's true he also stole from me but begged me.Who knows, Ijapa could have learned this nonsense from you…" "Don't mind Ana Ijapa, his bad records are in the open for all to see, he can't use Ijapa's case to cleanse himself, never!”
This is the reason Yoruba people always say: "Ebu alo ni ti Alabaun, ebu a bo ni ti ana e" when prosecution is turning into persecution.
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