By Otunba T J Abass
March 28, 2015. A thick cloud of tragedy settled on Epe’s sky.
Muftau Penu, Adewale Kunle, Mogaji Gbolahan, Bello Muiz, Agoro Shamsideen, and Mogaji Wale, Six sons of Epe became political martyrs.
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They did not set out to become legends. No medals waiting. No cameras. No noise. Just a task: election supervision.
They left home as ordinary men. Men with names, with families, with homes to return to.
But the river had other plans. That same river that has carried our stories for generations drew a line that day. And they did not cross it back home.
Epe felt it. Not as news, but as a wound. We mourned. We wept. We called their names.
But we did not scatter. Something held us. What could have broken us instead brought us closer. We banded in shared grief.
We raised an altar to them: AMBSAM Memorial Foundation. To honor their memory and stand with their families. So their story would not end where the river closed. So their sacrifice would not dissolve into silence.
Even today, 11 years later, we still feel the pain, fresh like the sting a bee. But AMBSAM Memorial Foundation continues to carry their names forward.
May their departed souls keep resting.
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May the plant of Epe’s freedom, irrigated by their blood, grow into a fruitful tree.
Rest on, Dear Brothers.
Epe will continue to Honor your memory.
