Ajayi in Yoruba culture and tradition means a child born with their face downward. The foreign Islamic and Christian faiths originated in Saudi Arabia and in Judea in the present Middle East, can't and won't name such a child Ajayi since it's not part of their religions and cultural history. They may have equivalent names which I don't know. But what I do know is that only Isese people i.e.
Ajayi's Oriki goes thus:"Ajayi Ogidi Olu o ni kanga ajipon. O fomi osuru weda. Eni Ajayi gba gba gba ti o le gba tan, Gunnungun ni gba Oluware..." In simple English translation, it won't capture the total essence of the idiomatic expression since the English language suffers idiom closure. It means"Ajayi who owns a mythical well that people fetch water from before daybreak. The one with an abundance of mysterious water to bathe.
However, if the name"Okasanmi" is a subcultural modification of"Okesanmi" , then his roots have to do with the hills, mountains and the relevant deities. In Abeokuta for instance, we have names like Okedara, Okerayi, Okegbemi, etc. All the names are in appreciation of one deity or the other that has to do with hills and mountains from the family geology. It's difficult to find a person not from a hilly or mountainous place bearing the"Okedara, Okerayi, Okebadan...
By his name and family cultural/religious lineage, Okasanmi Ajayi is an Isese man and to Isese he belongs by root even though he's doing his job but wrongly as a law enforcement agent. He can't and should not despise his root. For the command to tell Isese people to go elsewhere is a contempt of their rights and a breach of their freedom of worship.
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