Talking about rivers in ijebu and ogun state as a whole Yemoji river, located in imagbon town under odogbolu located government in ogun state, along epe -ijebu ode road is special one. History made us believe that this river forbids a particular type of yam called 'ESURU',
it's a taboo for anyone who eats this type yam a day before and who knows about the tabou to Enter tte river, if such happens it's the beleibe that mysterious snakes will get hold of the person in the river till necessary appellation is done before the victim is released.
Yomoji river originated from a village called 'ILONA' beside Ilese ijebu north east afeta a woman who is a sojourner alighted at the ilona to ask for water before she continued her journey. No one was able to provide her water till the third house and asked the villagers what went wrong and she was told the village had been suffering due to lack of water.
On that same spot she prayed for them that water will never be their problem and on that spot she turned to spring of water which is served as a source of water for village and as a well flowed through some other town which is part of where Yemoji is today.
We gathered that this water same river served as the route for ijebu market men and women to transport their market products to Lagos.They pass through this river to Ejirin near Epe.
The River is being visited by people from far and near as to the believe that when you pray with the water any of yuur misfortune, problems will come to an end.
This same river is refferered to Africa River Jordan
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