Complex sentence: Oral traditions has it that they lived under a wicked king, Togbe Agorkoli and in order to escape his tyrannical rule they had to create a hole in the mud wall the surrounded the town.
Split into simpler sentences: Oral traditions has it that they lived under a wicked king, Togbe Agorkoli. In order to escape his tyrannical rule, the people had to create a hole in the mud wall the surrounded the town.