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OKPE: Delta kingdom where snail is a god, shields devotees from gunshots

OKPE: Delta kingdom where snail is a god, shields devotees from gunshots

SAPELE- AT  numerous nations the world over, land-dwelling snail, a specie of terrestrial gastropod mollusks, is munched as food by humans, but at Ikeresan and many other communities in Okpe kingdom, Delta State, snail is rather bizarrely a   deity and it is a taboo to eat it.