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By HRH Dr. Sabo Azyjidoku Emmanuel
Dexterity is inborn, is inherent. These intrinsic qualities of individual do develop with time through the passage of life. To some people it is a thing to acquire through training
which most of the times is not natural. This tendency or desire to succeed in life, calls for hard work, perseverance and patience, as there are hindrances, barriers or obstacles, up to the mountain top. Some of them could be either accidental or born from envy and jealousy. However, any person who is determined and preoccupied with an ambition, genuinely, this struggle to make life worth living must not lazy away their precious time.
This picturesque individual by the manner of description is innovative, inventive productive and sensitive to the need to channel or garner all it takes to make it in life, despite all daunting challenges that may pose as barriers to one’s progress. Sometimes, this struggle is misconstrued to be portentous.
Today, may I crave your indulgence to present to the Jukun Wanu World, like I always do from time to time of the race pantheon, some distinguished individuals that have
touched lives positively. View this portrait of Mama Awayu Awotun who later on got married to Agyere Prince Aga Agya Agabi of Awakpoko clan of Abinsi, a princess, daughter to Akando Oga Manu Akyabo Akela Asumanyi of Kweduma ruling house of Agbodo. Initially, she was married to Azyoko Prince Muhammadu Akombwe Adeka Adangana of the Agyariko royal house of Anmwogh.
As one of the nouveaux riches, Mama Awotun is a business guru of extraordinary versality, very vivacious with an intimidating beauty-mojo, vocally, an adherent and
promoter of social justice, an anti-mendacious and an advocate of germane ideas. She tells it as it is.
This type of disposition sometimes is viewed by leftist as bellicose. In the finality, a dog is often given a bad name in order to hang it. At a time in the past, that was Mama’s travail, ordeal. Instead of the antagonists to give props to her presuppositions till proven otherwise, they would rather ask for a John the Baptist’s head. That notwithstanding,
Mama Awotun Awayu wa-aseh, has a grace of a woman and with a modicum of decorum she was indeed an inamorata in her prime days, a bait for suitors to chase to woo her
hand in marriage. Even Tilley Gyado the business tycoon was ready to lavish wonga on her so as to marry her, but cultural barriers could not permit such. Mama Awotun grew under the tutelage of her aunt Anyagye daughter to Anyebe
Amankye of Adose ruling house of Anmwogh. Anyagye was the wife to Adanki son to Asadiu of the Awakpoko super clan. It was Manu Andaki that gave birth to Alameyi mother to CP Cyril Tanko Abbe. Mama Awotun lost her biological mother Abida in her teens. Abida is daughter to Azyinya Akiwa of Fase royal house of Azyoko, the father to Abida is Anyebe of Adose royal house of Anmwogh. How life could be for such a
miserable child. She found favour with fate and grew with the magnetic attention that made her the pet in the foster house and acquaintances. Adoring her beauty and
comportment in the foster house, Pa Andaki Asadiu of the Akpoko ruling house, husband to Anyagye her foster mother gave a verdict that Awotun must marry to Awakpoko clan
which came to be; much later with the emergence of Agyere, Prince Aga Agya Agabi of the Awakpoko royal house.
As a child of destiny, this display of filial affection and pampering did not make her a spoilt-child. To her advantage she mustered stoutly and did not destroy this locomotive
instinctual drive to establish a business conglomerate. As a local bevvy vendor, Awayu Awotun, the princess of Agbodo, from Kweduna ruling house rose to prominence after
marriage. Evidently, at mid-thirty of age, she was as enterprising as a rabbit with a stream of blessed charming handsome princes of Anmwogh clan and a bevy of beauties,
princesses of both Agyariko and Awakpoko lineages: They can be graphically represented as; Asebia, Ahmadu (late), Abayin, Akudi, Ayinaka, Akanshashi, Matanwaya, Ayiwa,
Ashido, Awaku. Like mother like children, they are all very proficient at entrepreneurial skills and have a voracious appetite for academics.
Mama Awotun, commonly known as Ayinwashuwo, a name coined for her by some of her fostered children has now become her pet name and fondly remembered by 10
children minus 1, 74 grand children; 34 great grand children and still counting, totaled 108 precious grand at the moment.
As a merchant of repute like the famous Queen of Sheba in her heyday, she commanded an air of influence as the woman of affluence in the whole she bang. She was very
generous to people who came close to her. She had worked round the clock and drove away idleness, indolence from the companion structure of penury. Thus, she made fortunes and erected some imposing and impressive edifices. Her business domain or anchorage which centered around the lake Chad basin, flourished on the shores, on the shore line of the Republics of: Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria.
Greatly admired by her teeming business associates, allied workers and auxiliaries, she was also nick-named Mama Naira, after a fostered child, which penetrated the frontiers
of her adventures. At a point, she was a dispensing unit of treasures: acted like a Father Christmas, an anchor borrower, Trader money, a lender halal (no interest charged), a
lease hold property speculator. To apply the Israeli technology, Mama Naira could turn desert land to pasture land, or pastures to greener pastures. The spirit behind these successes were just the managerial abilities, or business acumen, sagacity and prudence.
In fact her success was the result of years of hard graft.
Now an octogenarian, Mama lives a fulfilled life as her pedigree leads the way. At intervals, she is being visited by her children and well wishers to tap her expertise,
wealth of experience or wisdom. She could be accessible and with a great sense of humors, she engages any would-be listener in a subtle conversation that floats like a
swarm of butterflies.
Age gracefully Mama Awotun, Ayinwashuwo, Mama Naira. May the good works and attributes of evangelist Naomi her name sake, shield, Mama. We pray, Mama will typify
and exemplify the patience of the Biblical Naomi and give her, her heart desires no matter all odds. Mama shall find her escape route in the face of overwhelming morass.
The aged need comfort and protection. You too will be old some-day. So let us honour and respect the aged.
Thanks.
