IF today someone talks about trance as a Biblical principle worth applying for the benefit of mankind, some people would be raising hell as if the word " trance" is a taboo in the Bible .
Pa Kolawole Mamora who was the college teacher of many great achievers in Nigeria ( including Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, His Imperial majesty, Oba Sikiru Adetona of Ijebu land, Lt. Gen. Oladipo Diya, Bashorun MKO Abiola and a host of others ) had just disembarked from a trance journey when I bumped on him at his residence in ijebu-ife. As a writing Prophetologist , It was through my trance experience that I was led to ijebu-ife for the first time in my life where in the company of a Punch cameraman ( Sikiru Adeoye now an Alhaji whom I groomed in the art of photo journalism ) I interviewed him for the first time ever.
Both of us ( Sikiru and I ) fasted as it was usual of us to do whenever we were on investigative prowl .
He had just signed a petition he got from God through his trance experience and in which God gave him some commandments to communicate to General Sanni Abacha to release forthwith Obasanjo and Bashorun MKO Abiola who were then held in detention or face some unhappy consequences. Pa Mamora who had just signed the petition was thinking of how to get it to the post office when I warmed steadily into his palace of an abode . Only those who could make sense from the Biblical account in the Bible,as contained in the Act of Apostle, Chapter 10, would understand the mystery of our meeting with him and would not take offence by that divine phenomenon. Through my sense of Journalism, I was able to move his message to the right quarters even nationally.
The photographs of General Olusegun Obasanjo and Bashorun MKO Abiola at college are now going viral on social media but many do not know the role and the responsibility which trance played in the release of Obasanjo and others from the dungeons in which they were held .
At a time people ( including members of the Afenifere ) were afraid to speak out , Pa Mamora spoke truth to people in the corridor of power to release his students or face God's wrath.
Indeed, an ideal teacher always subordinates his individuality to the development of his students. Chief Kolawole Mamora of Ijebu-Ife is the father of the present Federal Minister under President Muhammadu Buhari 's administration, Dr. Senator Olorunimbe Mamora, ( Minister of Science and Technology) Upon my exclusive interview with him as published by the Punch newspaper, the Abacha junta boys stormed his residence at ijebu-ife wanting to know if he actually granted the interview in which he warned the Head of state as exclusively published in the newspaper . In a rare display of courage keyed with elderly audacity, this teacher among teachers confirmed the story as true. He warned them not to dare touch me when he sensed their deadly mission was to arrest and detain me . The old teacher before he died called me several times on his old analogue phone as we both exchanged correspondences which are part of my archival material due to be published soon. Baba Mamora refused to grant exclusive interview with other newspapers which wanted to follow up my stories on him. When the man sensed that he was about going to meet his Lord, he wrote in his will that Reverend Dr. ST Ola Akande should preach sermon at his funeral service. Do you know what happened at the service ? You need to wait for it in my forthcoming book. It was the sermon for all season.
OLALERE FAGBOLA REPORTING
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