Former Bendel Gov., Agbasika Innih's Agenebode home in shabbles, tatters

By DADA AYOKHAI 


Wow!!! That's the exclamatory remarks anyone who saw what remains of the beautiful edifice once inhabited by a former military governor of former Bendel state.

How time changes! The beautiful country home of the late Gen George Agbazika in Agenebode, Etsako East local government area, is in tatters. 
Abandoned, decrepit and in total shamble is an understatement. 

What could have led to the country home of the late army general who also served as the governor of the old Bendel and Kwara states respectively during the peak of his military career?
 Gen George Agbazika Innih, a great man of influence who loved his people as well as his birth place, Agenebode, with a lot of passion, died in August 2002 at the age of 63 after a brief illness in Germany.

He was the military governor of the former Bendel state from August 1975_  March 1976.

On retirement from public service, he ventured into full time farming and set up a large scale farm, along with a farm house, engaging in piggery and food processing. The farm provided food and jobs to the locals.
Sadly, after his death, both his farming business, his residence and his burial tomb have become desolate and in ruins and serves as home to rodents and reptiles.

Most painful to the locals in Agenebode is why the family of the  late army general would be so careless as to allow his resting place and businesses to go into such magnitude of ruins, as if he was an orphan.

The late army general was survived by a wife and grown up children. 

According to some locals who spoke off record to our reporter during our visit, the blame for the sorry state of affairs was placed squarely on the doorstep of his wife who is said to hail from a neighbouring community, Fugar. 

They accused her of exerting tremendous influence on the  children of the late army general as well as ensuring they neither visit their late father's village nor find good reasons to rehabilitate his house. 

Besides, it is said she has a deep apathy for Agenebode and does not regard the community as her home hence the will to visit the late husband's family house is of low priority to her and the children.

Most hit is the late army general's farm, consisting of a piggery and other farming machineries. A glance gives one an indication of the tell - tale sign of the degree of rot and damage wrecked on them by the combined forces of nature and human neglect. 

Enquiries as to where the family of the late army general presently resides brought forth no response. 

It seems nobody has an inkling of where they are residing.

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