It is futile to call for peaceful poll while mocking the courts

It is unheard of to unmask the egwugwu. In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the egwugwu are masked ancestral spirits. Their revered council has the power of life and death in the clan. They are concurrently respected and dreaded as the judges in the community.

Their word is law. They are, accordingly, the most powerful and most secret cult of the clan. Their authority derives from ageless traditions and practices. They exercise this authority with utmost impartiality.