nayeb:


This shota fool, indeed has become a disgrace to himself, as he has started to disgrace his community: Consider that he writes Soku had been in existence for 100s of years before Amakiri formed the ' kingdom of Kalabari", yet the Harry (Ombo) family has been claiming that their father Ombo founded Soku, although Amakiri was the man who bought Ombo as an Igboman slave whose towns folk were selling off because he was a murderer and Amakiri needed murderers to kill the Kalabari people and so brought Ombo to Kalabari City State. So then how was it that Ombo founded Soku 100s of years before Amakiri formed "the Kingdom of Kalabari"? Now it is becoming obvious why these wanton liars would never write their lies into a book with their names attached, less they become branded as pathological liars like that other fool, Enefaa Johnbull.

Did your people also not claim the ancient land of Degema ? I am sure you do not even know what SOKU is if not you 'd know that Abonnema people control Soku today and not even Buguma people of any Omo family. Why did they not come up to lay such claim when Abonnema chiefs protested against the ceding of Soku land to Bayelsa ?

nayeb:


The shota fool continues the parade of his ignoramus self: consider that he lies about Igodo-ame being Edo people resident of Torusarama piri which is the same as Iwo Kalabari (Old Shipping) and when he is called out as a liar that the people are actually in Iduwini Clan in the Ijaw lands, then he writes thus: "My brother Thank you for that correction.. That's what I had in mind to drop tho..". Now how in Gods name does Old Shipping become Iduwini Clan locale? Other than that the man, the Shota fool, is disgracefully pathological mentally and in recognizing truths. How was it that he had it in mind to show that Old Shipping is also Iduwini Clan locale? The mental state of this man has become questionable. Really he needs help.

You lack the sense of understanding.. He said the people of Iduwini are also Igodo ame of ancient Benin and were Ijaws .

nayeb:


The lies of this man never ceases to flow. He has become so pathetic that he no longer even knows when his lies have started to become very obvious: Consider for instance his statement as made bold above. For that statement to be true, then Ogobiri will have been formed since 100 AD but that would be before the Arabs attacked the Blacks from North Africa southwards that started the migration of the Ijaws along the West African Coast lands. The fact is at about 100 AD the Sahara Desert was still teeming with life being in some state of forest. Shame he does not even realize that he is declaring himself as a pathetic and pathological liar.

LOL.. Uncle Benebo, Go and Teach Physics and make use of the quantum laws that you know better . That is your field.. You just can not collate and arrange pieces of history from different places to come up with an acceptable Book. Your history of KALABARI also effectively excluded the Aboriginal Engennis of the land KALABARI kingdom now occupies. Usokun Degema , Atala Degema, Obonnoma, Bukuma, Ogruama just to name a few. Now I ve given you more stuffs to go think about. .. You also do not know nothing about what happened to ancient OLOMA people and their relationship with ABISSA ( Ayabisa ) , The people of ancient OPOROAMA that splitted to become Oproama and Sama today, And the bubbling Coastal town of Ifoko met by the Portuguese . These were not KALABARI people but people who became KALABARI under AMAKIRI . Study also the people of Ibelema who became Krakrama today and find out how the Bulk of them settled in Torusarama piri to become parts of the Elem AMA town settlers . You are by now getting a picture of how the settlement of Torusarama piri was formed . It is cos of the claim of your ancestors as Lords over the real land owners and the original people that made people like IBOROMA of Ifoko , Iyalla of Tombia , Berepiki of Kula , Teme of Abissa and many others from the various original ancient settlements to align with IGBANIBO against your people. Go and study BAKANA town and know the constituents of that town to know the IGBANIBO ALLIANCE was formed. More than half of the fighters were never Elem ama dwelling people . So stop using the history of just one group to mean the history of KALABARI Kingdom. You are not wrong in the piece of history you are presenting but that is simply the history of a faction of Elem KALABARI dwellers which is not close to 5% of the History of KALABARI kingdom... KALABARI is made up of clans like, 1.Kula, 2.Ke.3 Ifoko. 5.Tombia. 6. Oporoama . 7. Minama. 8.Angulama. 9 Ibelema ( Ancient Krakrama ) . 10 Ekuleama ( Idama ) / Soku . 11. Ebema . 12 Aya bisa ( Abisse ). 13 . Oloma . 15. Sangama. 16. And even BILLE which refused to join the amalgamation.. 17. The KORO AME who came from the Far East to influence the settlers at Torusarama piri. and ofcourse the Ende ame whose history you do not know... To write KALABARI kingdom history, you must first outline the history of these various Ijaw groups so on the time line of the KALABARI history.. EXISTENCE of these groups as independent settlements would be at the 5th----10th Level. .. By the 8th century, Torusarama piri was settled by different Ijaw people including Bille people, Ke people, Ifoko people, Ibelema people, Angulama and Minama people, Kula people and people from far away other Ijaw land. TORUSARAMA PIRI became a larger settlement that had numerous Ijaw clans so these people lived along their various clans which we keep referring to as wards. .. At the same time period, OBU AMAFA was existing.. Obu amafa was a market where Ijaw people met the upland dwellers to exchange goods ( buy and sell ). Such market places are always like normal settlements and so Obu AMAFA was a settlemnet on the Ikwere land mass . This Market also attracted Ijaws from different parts.... MIND YOU,, AT THIS TIME...THERE WAS NO KALABARI Kingdom . The destruction of Obu AMAFA led to the Ijaw people of the place dispersing to different places... But Before the destruction of OBUAMAFA, PEREBO KALABARI who was born by a man from MEIN to Possibly a KE woman exsited in the market town. This man had children who grew up to own their various families. Children of this man were the people of KALABARI... Now you having a picture of how KALABARI came about. A faction of the children of this man led by OPU KOROYE had already left Obu AMAFA to the far east and proceeded to found settlements there. ( These people might be the Ijaws that became Defaka and later Obolo due to mixture with other non Ijaws ). Defaka was just one name they gave themselves which in today's tongue is DAFA-A ( in Kalabari ) and DAFAKA ( In Okrika ) simply meaning Our father or ancestor is still alive.. Their ancestor was Perebo Kalabari . They were met by the Portguese and documented as Calabar people.Although many of them led by Owuere Daba abandoned the place and moved back westward, some remained and mixed up with the neighboring people to become Obolo . While Nkoro is the purest form of the people existing today in that region. NKORO is the AROCHUKWU accent for the word KORO people. They are remnants of the Koro ame Ijaws. ......Now by the 10th century, OBUAMAFA was in crisis and eventually destroyed sending every Ijaw people away from the place... People went different ways. ALAGBARIGHA was one Kolokuma man that lived there who also left with some Ikwere friends notably NDOLI and others. They first settled at a place called Orupiri ( land of the gods ) which is just a little bit away from modern day Bakana to the South. But they left the place and went to join some Ijaw people at a town called NYAMPKO where Finima and Tombia people lived. The arrival of ALAGBARIGHA people to the place made the TOMBIANS abandon the place due to disagreement. The remaining people had to share the settlement with ALAGBARIGHA side by side with each group having a name for their part of the settlement hence giving birth to the names FINIMA and OKOLOMA... The Tombians went to settle near Torusarama piri just at the North of Ifoko town ...

Another group of Ijaws from the destroyed OBU AMAFA who called themselves ENDE AME were also said to be Children or people of Perebo Kalabari of Obuamafa. They never settled on a virgin land but decided to settle among the Ijaws of Torusarama piri and formed the Ende ame ward of that settlement . The people continued to live along their various wards independent of each other with every ward having it's own leadership. . At this level, Before the Koro ame came by the 16th century, they were already the richest slave traders haven dominated the calabar river route where they had contact with Arochukwu Igbos at the river source. It was also their time when KALABARI was neighbors of the MBOKO. At the same period when SUKU was a house whole name among them. They would also take their problem to SUKU just as the Igbos did where a guilty person would be said to have been taken by the gods where as in actual fact, at the back of the Long Juju was a waiting covered boat that would take the person away as a slave to be sold to the Igbos. They were the Koro ame who also called themselves Kalabari .

So at Torusarama piri they were influencial and continued to call themselves partly as KALABARI people and KORO AME at the same time. Meanwhile, the Ende ame were also Kalabari PEOPLE so at that time, there ere two Kalabari family or ward groups in ELEM AMA ( Torusarama piri ). TORUSARAMA piri became a bee hive of activities and the English were looking for ways to control the entire NIGER DELTA region. So the idea to pick clan leaders or settlement leaders that would be used as indirect middle men to organize a trade system and a form orderly living arose.. OKOLOMA was also bubbling with Ijaw activities while the Okrika Ijaw s wanted to have contact with the Europeans without necessarily dealing with Okoloma chiefs. So they thought destroying Torusarama piri would pave way for this to happen and so they stroke one day when able Torusarama piri people were all away for the daily business. On arrival, Torusarama piri was attacked by the Okrikans. This attack was the first call that made Torusarama piri people to form an alliance to form a central government. Meanwhile, the worst hit part of the town was the KORO AME section. This made the KORO AME people to lack the man power to produce a person to rule the town. This is the link where MANY KALABARI historians are seeing to be the end of the dynasty of the KORO AME leadership of KALABARI when in actual fact, KALABARI kingdom was not even born yet cos the KORO AME people were all the time simply ruling themselves as KALABARI people.

Eventually TORUSARAMA PIRI people backed by Tombia, Ifoko, KE approved AMAKIRI to be their leader. This was the beginning of the era of the King AMAKIRIS. . Amakiri then extended his rule to all the ancient clans but could not do so to the clans just across the river because the OKOLOMA king there is already in control of the people.. That OKOLOMA ruler was king PERE KULE.. This was the time when the Ijaws of that territory found themselves now divided along new LEADERSHIP with the bulk under AMAKIRI and the rest under PERE KULE. The King AMAKIRI leadership then decided to call the entire clans, settlements and groups under his rule as KALABARI people with only the people of BILLE refusing to be part of....

shota:


Did your people also not claim the ancient land of Degema ? I am sure you do not even know what SOKU is if not you 'd know that Abonnema people control Soku today and not even Buguma people of any Omo family. Why did they not come up to lay such claim when Abonnema chiefs protested against the ceding of Soku land to Bayelsa ?

So now we are clear that you concede that the Ombo (or Harry) Family assertion of their Ombo founding Soku is false. Okay then.

You also said my people also claimed the ancient land of Degema? Which my people? The Degema people are Engennis and not Kalabari people and they proudly assert that. If my people claim the ancient land of Degema, and that claim is false why then did you imply that the Enginnis are also Kalabari and must be considered as such? Look the lands of Abonnema and Bakana which are the locales where the Kalabari people proper are, are not Enginnis' land, and they (the Enginnis) are not contesting them. Are you certain that your head is screwed on right?

shota:


You lack the sense of understanding.. He said the people of Iduwini are also Igodo ame of ancient Benin and were Ijaws .

Really? The statement was clear and stated this: The Egodo-ame were not Edo people they were always Ijaw people, and the majority of them are currently in the Iduwini Clan. That last phrase of the sentence says this much: "Some of the Iduwini people are Egodo-ame, and not all the Iduwini people" however, the Egodo-ame in the Iduwini Clan are the majority of the Egodo-ame that exists anywhere. Obviously sequential thinking in construction of logical thought is not your strong suit. No wonder, you could not become rational in your presentation, and the concept of time-line eludes your ability.

Now tell me who "lacks sense of understanding"?

shota:


LOL.. Uncle Benebo, Go and Teach Physics and make use of the quantum laws that you know better . That is your field.. You just can not collate and arrange pieces of history from different places to come up with an acceptable Book. Your history of KALABARI also effectively excluded the Aboriginal Engennis of the land KALABARI kingdom now occupies. Usokun Degema , Atala Degema, Obonnoma, Bukuma, Ogruama just to name a few. Now I ve given you more stuffs to go think about. .. You also do not know nothing about what happened to ancient OLOMA people and their relationship with ABISSA ( Ayabisa ) , The people of ancient OPOROAMA that splitted to become Oproama and Sama today, And the bubbling Coastal town of Ifoko met by the Portuguese . These were not KALABARI people but people who became KALABARI under AMAKIRI . Study also the people of Ibelema who became Krakrama today and find out how the Bulk of them settled in Torusarama piri to become parts of the Elem AMA town settlers . You are by now getting a picture of how the settlement of Torusarama piri was formed . It is cos of the claim of your ancestors as Lords over the real land owners and the original people that made people like IBOROMA of Ifoko , Iyalla of Tombia , Berepiki of Kula , Teme of Abissa and many others from the various original ancient settlements to align with IGBANIBO against your people. Go and study BAKANA town and know the constituents of that town to know the IGBANIBO ALLIANCE was formed. More than half of the fighters were never Elem ama dwelling people . So stop using the history of just one group to mean the history of KALABARI Kingdom. You are not wrong in the piece of history you are presenting but that is simply the history of a faction of Elem KALABARI dwellers which is not close to 5% of the History of KALABARI kingdom... KALABARI is made up of clans like, 1.Kula, 2.Ke.3 Ifoko. 5.Tombia. 6. Oporoama . 7. Minama. 8.Angulama. 9 Ibelema ( Ancient Krakrama ) . 10 Ekuleama ( Idama ) / Soku . 11. Ebema . 12 Aya bisa ( Abisse ). 13 . Oloma . 15. Sangama. 16. And even BILLE which refused to join the amalgamation.. 17. The KORO AME who came from the Far East to influence the settlers at Torusarama piri. and ofcourse the Ende ame whose history you do not know... To write KALABARI kingdom history, you must first outline the history of these various Ijaw groups so on the time line of the KALABARI history.. EXISTENCE of these groups as independent settlements would be at the 5th----10th Level. .. By the 8th century, Torusarama piri was settled by different Ijaw people including Bille people, Ke people, Ifoko people, Ibelema people, Angulama and Minama people, Kula people and people from far away other Ijaw land. TORUSARAMA PIRI became a larger settlement that had numerous Ijaw clans so these people lived along their various clans which we keep referring to as wards. .. At the same time period, OBU AMAFA was existing.. Obu amafa was a market where Ijaw people met the upland dwellers to exchange goods ( buy and sell ). Such market places are always like normal settlements and so Obu AMAFA was a settlemnet on the Ikwere land mass . This Market also attracted Ijaws from different parts.... MIND YOU,, AT THIS TIME...THERE WAS NO KALABARI Kingdom . The destruction of Obu AMAFA led to the Ijaw people of the place dispersing to different places... But Before the destruction of OBUAMAFA, PEREBO KALABARI who was born by a man from MEIN to Possibly a KE woman exsited in the market town. This man had children who grew up to own their various families. Children of this man were the people of KALABARI... Now you having a picture of how KALABARI came about. A faction of the children of this man led by OPU KOROYE had already left Obu AMAFA to the far east and proceeded to found settlements there. ( These people might be the Ijaws that became Defaka and later Obolo due to mixture with other non Ijaws ). Defaka was just one name they gave themselves which in today's tongue is DAFA-A ( in Kalabari ) and DAFAKA ( In Okrika ) simply meaning Our father or ancestor is still alive.. Their ancestor was Perebo Kalabari . They were met by the Portguese and documented as Calabar people.Although many of them led by Owuere Daba abandoned the place and moved back westward, some remained and mixed up with the neighboring people to become Obolo . While Nkoro is the purest form of the people existing today in that region. NKORO is the AROCHUKWU accent for the word KORO people. They are remnants of the Koro ame Ijaws. ......Now by the 10th century, OBUAMAFA was in crisis and eventually destroyed sending every Ijaw people away from the place... People went different ways. ALAGBARIGHA was one Kolokuma man that lived there who also left with some Ikwere friends notably NDOLI and others. They first settled at a place called Orupiri ( land of the gods ) which is just a little bit away from modern day Bakana to the South. But they left the place and went to join some Ijaw people at a town called NYAMPKO where Finima and Tombia people lived. The arrival of ALAGBARIGHA people to the place made the TOMBIANS abandon the place due to disagreement. The remaining people had to share the settlement with ALAGBARIGHA side by side with each group having a name for their part of the settlement hence giving birth to the names FINIMA and OKOLOMA... The Tombians went to settle near Torusarama piri just at the North of Ifoko town ...

Another group of Ijaws from the destroyed OBU AMAFA who called themselves ENDE AME were also said to be Children or people of Perebo Kalabari of Obuamafa. They never settled on a virgin land but decided to settle among the Ijaws of Torusarama piri and formed the Ende ame ward of that settlement . The people continued to live along their various wards independent of each other with every ward having it's own leadership. . At this level, Before the Koro ame came by the 16th century, they were already the richest slave traders haven dominated the calabar river route where they had contact with Arochukwu Igbos at the river source. It was also their time when KALABARI was neighbors of the MBOKO. At the same period when SUKU was a house whole name among them. They would also take their problem to SUKU just as the Igbos did where a guilty person would be said to have been taken by the gods where as in actual fact, at the back of the Long Juju was a waiting covered boat that would take the person away as a slave to be sold to the Igbos. They were the Koro ame who also called themselves Kalabari .

So at Torusarama piri they were influencial and continued to call themselves partly as KALABARI people and KORO AME at the same time. Meanwhile, the Ende ame were also Kalabari PEOPLE so at that time, there ere two Kalabari family or ward groups in ELEM AMA ( Torusarama piri ). TORUSARAMA piri became a bee hive of activities and the English were looking for ways to control the entire NIGER DELTA region. So the idea to pick clan leaders or settlement leaders that would be used as indirect middle men to organize a trade system and a form orderly living arose.. OKOLOMA was also bubbling with Ijaw activities while the Okrika Ijaw s wanted to have contact with the Europeans without necessarily dealing with Okoloma chiefs. So they thought destroying Torusarama piri would pave way for this to happen and so they stroke one day when able Torusarama piri people were all away for the daily business. On arrival, Torusarama piri was attacked by the Okrikans. This attack was the first call that made Torusarama piri people to form an alliance to form a central government. Meanwhile, the worst hit part of the town was the KORO AME section. This made the KORO AME people to lack the man power to produce a person to rule the town. This is the link where MANY KALABARI historians are seeing to be the end of the dynasty of the KORO AME leadership of KALABARI when in actual fact, KALABARI kingdom was not even born yet cos the KORO AME people were all the time simply ruling themselves as KALABARI people.

Eventually TORUSARAMA PIRI people backed by Tombia, Ifoko, KE approved AMAKIRI to be their leader. This was the beginning of the era of the King AMAKIRIS. . Amakiri then extended his rule to all the ancient clans but could not do so to the clans just across the river because the OKOLOMA king there is already in control of the people.. That OKOLOMA ruler was king PERE KULE.. This was the time when the Ijaws of that territory found themselves now divided along new LEADERSHIP with the bulk under AMAKIRI and the rest under PERE KULE. The King AMAKIRI leadership then decided to call the entire clans, settlements and groups under his rule as KALABARI people with only the people of BILLE refusing to be part of....

Do you even realize you made a ninny of yourself with this gibberish you wrote? You would have granted yourself some modicum of consideration had you put the supposed information in a time-line. But I forgive you, indeed, as sequential thinking to the end of construction of logic escapes your ability.

Really, all you had to do was simply disprove my assertion, one by one: (1) Kininyanabo of Kalabari Igonibo ruled during 1715 - 1721, so there could not have been Amakiri. You could have simply asserted that there is no written record and I would have proven you wrong. But you couldn't because you know you are a wanton liar.
(2) Kula subordinated their monarchy to the Kalabari Kininyanabo during Igonibo's reign of 1715 -1721. You could have simply asserted that did not happen, and I would have proven you wrong too. But you also couldn't because you know that you are just a wanton liar.

Now I will even help you along some: You know, soon after the fraudulent claim of Theophilus Princewill, as Amanyanabo of Buguma, he visited Portugal and researched their archives looking for Treaties signed between Portugal and Kalabari City State, and not in any one of them did he find the signature of that criminal fugitive Amakiri or Amakoromo. Then that murderous Theophilus Princewill travelled to Holland also to search their archives for any shred of evidence that Amakiri was around when the Holland people (also called Dutch) signed Treaties with Kalabari City State (at Old Shipping) and traded with each other, and even there he found none. All documents he found were signed by either Owuerre-Daba or Akeamaoloye and his sons, and inbetween them Mangi-Suku. Sadly none by Amakiri. Let me now tell you the reason why this is so, and not many people understand it, during the period Amakiri was let to proxy for Prince Awo, the European trader refused to recognize Amakiri and continued to insist that Prince Awo sign all documents and was entrusted with all their goods in consignment. Their argument was simple, the royal family has a dignity and trustworthiness that was unequaled by any other, and that certainly Amaikiri was an unknown quantity and so not to be bothered with. Do you get it now. So let me give you another challenge: Produce one document ever signed by Amakiri with the Europeans on behalf of Kalabari.

You wrote this piece that I find very interesting:
It is cos of the claim of your ancestors as Lords over the real land owners and the original people that made people like IBOROMA of Ifoko , Iyalla of Tombia , Berepiki of Kula , Teme of Abissa and many others from the various original ancient settlements to align with IGBANIBO against your people.
How was it that an Igbanibo alliance was formed between my people (part Kalabari family) and the original land-owners against my people? Are you mental? You and your gang claimed previously that King Igbanibo rebelled against Abbi, now you assert that he ( Igbanibo who was my cousin) fought against my (also his) people. Now let me set you straight again. There was no alliance between Chief Iyalla and King Igbanibo, for the simple reason that as boys Iyalla, Alambo and Igbanibo were raised together in the same household as brothers by Kombo agolia. Of course, Iyalla was adopted into that family to prevent Karibo Amakiri from killing him, and therefore was raised in the family as the older brother of both Alambo and Igbanibo. Further Iyalla's Chietaincy was also of the Odum family: Iyalla having grown up into adulthood became a Kalabari Chief in the Odum family before relocating to Tombia, so a Chief Iyalla was never a Tombia man but a full blooded Kalabari citizen who was residing at Tombia. In any case, when his (Iyalla's) baby brother Igbanibo went to war, Chief Iyalla suspended everything he was doing and joined up with his brother. Now do you get it. The various other families wanted to be adopted as citizens of the Kalabari Union and therefore joined up with Igbanibo and become such -citizens of the Kalabari Union. A privilege that the Amakiris have sought to acquire till today and they have not gained and will never gain. Now let me give you another challenge: Prove me wrong that Kombo-agolia did not raise Iyalla as a teenager, and also that Iyalla did not become a Chief in the Odum family.

By the way, I hope you understand now why Chief Iyalla singularly took on the Okaki war against the treacherous family of Abbi pretending to attack Kalabari in a charade until Iyalla literally wiped them out. Iyalla just did not want to be bothered with his younger brother Alambo going to war, and smelling the treachery of Abbi, went out and wiped out the useless people of Okaki, Nembe. When Abbi finally claimed to be going to war, the remnant Okaki warriors took to their heels thinking that Iyalla was yet returning to completely annihilate them. Military Strategy analysis shows Abbi's claim to be utter falsehood. Now one more challenge: Prove me wrong by stating the source by which Chief Iyalla became lame for the rest of his life.

I am going to stop here now, you have got a lot to do. Stupid, snorty-nose ninny you are.

nayeb:


Do you even realize you made a ninny of yourself with this gibberish you wrote? You would have granted yourself some modicum of consideration had you put the supposed information in a time-line. But I forgive you, indeed, as sequential thinking to the end of construction logic escapes your ability.

Really, all you had to do was simply disprove my assertion, one by one: (1)Kininyanabo of Kalabari Igonibo ruled during 1715 - 1721, so there could not have been Amakiri. You could have simply asserted that there is no written record and I would have proven you wrong. But you couldnt because you know you are a wanton liar.
(2) Kula subordinated their monarchy to the Kalabari Kininyanabo during Igonibo's reign of 1715 -1721. You could have simply asserted that did not happen, and I would have proven you wrong too. But you couldnt because you know that you are just a wanton liar.

Now I will even help you along some: You know, soon after the fraudulent claim of Theophilus Princewill, as Amanyanabo of Buguma, he visited Portugal and researched there archives looking for Treaties signed between Portugal and Kalabari City State People, and not in any one of them did he find the signature of that criminal fugitive Amakiri or Amakoromo. then that murderous Theophilus Princewill travel to Holland also to search for their archives for any shred of evidence that Amakiri was around when the Holland people (also called Dutch) signed Treaties with Kalabari City State (at Old Shipping) and traded with each other, and even there he found known. All documents he found were signed by either Owuerre-Daba or Akeamaoloye and his sons, and inbetween them Mangi-Suku. Sadly none by Amakiri. let me noww tell you the reason why this is so, and not many people understand it, during the period Amakiri was let to proxy for Prince Awo, the European trader refused to recognize Amakiri and continued to insist that Prince Awo sign all documents and was entrusted all their goods in consignment. Their argument was simple, the royal family has a dignity and trustworthiness that was unequaled by any other, and that certainly Amaikiri was an unknown quantity and so not to be bothered with. Do you get it now. So let give you another challenge: produce one document ever signed by Amakiri with the Europeans on behalf of Kalabari.

You wrote this piece that I find very interesting:
It is cos of the claim of your ancestors as Lords over the real land owners and the original people that made people like IBOROMA of Ifoko , Iyalla of Tombia , Berepiki of Kula , Teme of Abissa and many others from the various original ancient settlements to align with IGBANIBO against your people.
How was it that an Igbanibo alliance was formed between my people (part Kalabari family) and the original land-owners against my people? Are you mental? You and your gang claim that King Igbanibo rebelled against Abbi now you assert that he ( Igbanibo who was my cousin) fought against my (also his) people. Now let me set you straight again. There was no allinace between Chief Iyalla and King Igbanibo, for the simple reason that as boys Iyalla, Allanbo and Igbanibo were raised together in the same household as brothers by Kombo agolia. Of course, Iyalla was adopted into that family to stop Karibo Amakiri from killing him, and therefore was raised in the family as the older brother of both Allanbo and Igbanibo. Further Iyalla's Chietaincy was also of the Odum family: Iyalla became a Kalabari Chief in the Odum family before relocating to Tombia, so a chieff Iyalla was never a Tombia man but a full blooded Kalabari citizen who was residing at Tombia. In any case when his (Iyalla's) baby brother Igbanibo went to war, Chief Iyalla stopped everything he was doing and joined up with his brother. Now do you get it. The various other families wanted to be adopted as citizens of the Kalabari Union and therefore joined up with Igbanibo and become such -citizens of the Kalabari Union. A privilege that the Amakiris have sought to acquire till today and they have not gained and will never gain. Now let me give you another challenge: Prove me wrong that Kombo-agolia did not raise Iyalla as a teenager, and also that Iyalla did not become a Chief in the Odum family.

By the way, I hope you understand now why Chief Iyalla singularly took on the Okaki war against the treacherous family of Abbi pretending to attack Kalabari in a charade until Iyalla literally wiped them out. Iyalla just did not want to be bothered with his younger brother Allanbo going to war, and smelling the treachery of Abbi, went out and wiped out the useless people of Okaki, Nembe. When Abbi finally claimed to be going to war, the remnant Okaki warriors took to their heels thinking that Iyalla was yet returning to completely annihilate them. Military Strategy analysis shows Abbi's claim to be utter falsehood. Now one more challenge prove me wrong by stating the source by which Chief Iyalla became lame for the rest of his life.

I am going to stop here now, you have got a lot to do. Stupid, snorty-nose ninny you are.

Now it seems you are a daft... 1715 was the 18th century.. AMAKIRI was made king in the 1600s and that was the 17th century.. Prior to that time, there was no King in TORUSARAMA PIRI cos the people of the settlement were independent of each wards.. And Torusarama piri was just an ordinary settlement owned by KE people hence it was referred to as KE ANGA BE AMA. tHE VARIOUS leaders of KALABARI you are talking about must be the rulers of KALABARI when they the Koro ame WERE still in the CALABAR region cos that was their aboriginal land where they had MBOKO neighbors..It was OWUERE DABA that led them away from Calabar. Now it is not clear if Owuere Daba actually touched down on TORUSARAMA PIRI...At this time, Torusama piri, Ke, Ifoko, Tombia, Minama and the rest towns were not called KALABARI towns. It was when King AMAKIRI mounted the Throne that they decided to call the amalgamated region KALABARI... This is the part many people like you are finding difficulty to understand cos your mind is fixated on KALABARI excluding the ancient region of the OPU KORYE people.. Your blocked Brains can not even reason when your orasl TRADITION says KALABARI were neighbours of MBOKO.. Did you see any MBOKO as KALABARI neighbors today ? Where is AROCHUKWU near KALABARI today ? AROCHUKWU and MBOKO were near KALABARI when KALABARI was the region known as CALABAR today and that was where all the Kings you mentioned as KALABARI kings ruled and not in Torusarama piri..

You daft monkey, you think Iyalla was alone. Iyalla was the leader of a people and he led a faction of Tombia people that lived in ancient Tombia and not in Torusarama piri.. Go and read Tombia history or better still the history of the Iyalla family of Bakana.. Iyalla was a strong Tombia warrior..

nayeb:


So now we are clear that you concede that the Ombo (or Harry) Family assertion of their Ombo founding Soku is false. Okay then.

You also said my people also claimed the ancient land of Degema? Which my people? The Degema people are Engennis and not Kalabari people and they proudly assert that. If my people claim the ancient land of Degema, and that claim is false why then did you imply that the Enginnis are also Kalabari and must be considered as such? Look the lands of Abonnema and Bakana which is where the Kalabari people proper are not Enginnis land, and they are not contesting them.Are you certain that your head is screwed on right?

Listen These people you mentioned only had their mothers as natives of Soku. I am also part Jackrich and it is just the same stupid blind claim where people say the Jackrich owns SANGAMA where as the truth is a Sangama mother gave birth to Jackrich... SOKU is a very ancient settlement.. The OMBO family perhaps due to their SOKU link simply claimed to be bona fide Soku natives which was misunderstood to be Owners of SOKU.. Why don't you go to the SOKU town and get their history ? Is SOKU extinct ?. They were known as SOKIN. Refer to their history in the History of Nembe. SOKIN existed even before ELEM SANGAMA and the Neighbors know SOKU very well. It was a distinct Ijaw town .

shota:


Now it seems you are a daft... 1715 was the 18th century.. AMAKIRI was made king in the 1600s and that was the 17th century.. Prior to that time, there was no King in TORUSARAMA PIRI cos the people of the settlement were independent of each wards.. And Torusarama piri was just an ordinary settlement owned by KE people hence it was referred to as KE ANGA BE AMA. tHE VARIOUS leaders of KALABARI you are talking about must be the rulers of KALABARI when they the Koro ame WERE still in the CALABAR region cos that was their aboriginal land where they had MBOKO neighbors..It was OWUERE DABA that led them away from Calabar. Now it is not clear if Owuere Daba actually touched down on TORUSARAMA PIRI...At this time, Torusama piri, Ke, Ifoko, Tombia, Minama and the rest towns were not called KALABARI towns. It was when King AMAKIRI mounted the Throne that they decided to call the amalgamated region KALABARI... This is the part many people like you are finding difficulty to understand cos your mind is fixated on KALABARI excluding the ancient region of the OPU KORYE people.. Your blocked Brains can not even reason when your orasl TRADITION says KALABARI were neighbours of MBOKO.. Did you see any MBOKO as KALABARI neighbors today ? Where is AROCHUKWU near KALABARI today ? AROCHUKWU and MBOKO were near KALABARI when KALABARI was the region known as CALABAR today and that was where all the Kings you mentioned as KALABARI kings ruled and not in Torusarama piri..

You daft monkey, you think Iyalla was alone. Iyalla was the leader of a people and he led a faction of Tombia people that lived in ancient Tombia and not in Torusarama piri.. Go and read Tombia history or better still the history of the Iyalla family of Bakana.. Iyalla was a strong Tombia warrior..

Now it is clear why you failed out of the University you claimed to be attending. You are really mentally deficient. Chronological thinking seems not to be an aspect of your thinking: Let me make it explicit to you then: consider that the first Treaty signed between the English and Kalabari was signed at about 1835 -1838, when Karibo was the leader of the Amakiri Enclave in the "Opouama". Now then given that the Amakiris, as you fool, allege that Amakiri ruled followed by Karibo and then Abbi and a string of Amakiris, so if Amakiri became a King in the 1600s, and the 1700s are later where then did the Igonibo reign break into the Amakiri alleged/phantom dynasty? How was it that the reign of Igonibo broke into the alleged Amakiri dynasty other than that the rubbish written by that ninny Enefaa Johnbull (which you quote diligently as your own) was just that a bullS**t. Have you got it as yet that you are mentally deficient? So now who is daft monkey: the one who does not know that 1700s being later that 1600s means Amakiri did rule Kalabari or the one as me who does? Yet you have still not answered my challenge: Given that the first Treaty with the English was signed at about 1835 - 1838, and if in fact as the wanton liar Amachrees allege Amakiri ruled Kalabari in the 1600s, how then is it that Theophilus Princewill could not find a single Treaty with the Portuguese or the Dutch that was signed by Amakiri? How do you think Simon Owonaro determined from documentation that Kininyanabo Igonibo ruled between 1715 -1721? have you got it as yet, that you are mentally deficient?

You wrote thus:
Now it is not clear if Owuere Daba actually touched down on TORUSARAMA PIRI...At this time, Torusama piri, Ke, Ifoko, Tombia, Minama and the rest towns were not called KALABARI towns.
Yet the Portuguese met with King Owuerre-Daba at Old Shipping and they have the records for that. That was where he told them that they were Kalabari. Now that is another record for you ... GI Jones has it in his book about the Oil Niger Rivers etc...

You also wrote:
You daft monkey, you think Iyalla was alone. Iyalla was the leader of a people and he led a faction of Tombia people that lived in ancient Tombia and not in Torusarama piri..
How can you suggest what I think as "Iyalla was alone" when you can not even understand what I write. I have previously told you that Iyalla became a Kalabari Chief at Old Shipping before relocating to Tombia, and that means that Iyalla had got together a minimum number of 100 Kalabari Union citizens before he became a Chief; that was the culture, but I have already written that before. So why would you suggest that I would "think" when in fact I have been telling you. Of course, by the time Chief Iyalla attacked the Okaki Nembe people and destroyed them, he had become a powerful war Canoe House in Tombia to where he relocated after having already become a Kalabari Chief of the Odum Families Group. So now I ask you: Who is the daft monkey: The one who does not even understand the implications of Kalabari culture as you, or the one such as I who understand the culture and its meaning?

shota:


Listen These people you mentioned only had their mothers as natives of Soku. I am also part Jackrich and it is just the same stupid blind claim where people say the Jackrich owns SANGAMA where as the truth is a Sangama mother gave birth to Jackrich... SOKU is a very ancient settlement.. The OMBO family perhaps due to their SOKU link simply claimed to be bona fide Soku natives which was misunderstood to be Owners of SOKU.. Why don't you go to the SOKU town and get their history ? Is SOKU extinct ?. They were known as SOKIN. Refer to their history in the History of Nembe. SOKIN existed even before ELEM SANGAMA and the Neighbors know SOKU very well. It was a distinct Ijaw town .

Tom Alabaraba, would you please stop this nonsense of telling lies. My last name Benebo, is extracted from Chief Benebo Kuruye-Alele, popularly known as Chief Wokoma, who was son of So-Alabo Akoko who was son of Ngo who was the second cousin of Seleye Fubara, which is why Jackreece and Wokoma families are next to each other in Buguma. Seleye Fubara had no child and adopted Jackreece as an Igboman. Seleye Fubara traded with the English at the time under the name of Jack. When the English asked him whom he had brought with him to trade that day he told then this was a man whom he had bought to help him by, and they then in reply said (I paraphrase): "Ohh so this is Jack's leash then" and from then on became known to the English as JackLeash. Interestingly this information is also in the records of the Buguma people and the documents they frequently used to contest the leadership of the Amakiri Enclave and Families and now known as the Amanyanabo of Buguma. Jackleash has since been written as Jackreece when I lived in Buguma and now you fools prefer to style yourselves Jackrich. You are a joker.

You fool, Ombo (or Harry as he is also known) was never from Soku. He was an Igboman murderer that Amakiri bought and brought to Kalabari to kill for him, and the first person he killed was Osimininye Alali. This information is in the Portuguese record and also in the English documents. Ombo was an Igboman and had nothing whatsoever to link to Soku, just as JackLeash has nothing to do with Sangama.

Oh just so you know, Osiniminiye Alali of the Akiala-ame was killed because he came straight-out called Amakiri a slave. Also Amakiri was challenged by Gbana the sister of Osiminimiye Alali to prove that he was in fact not a slave and show the justification he had for murdering her brother which he was never able to prove. He was also called a slave and publicly vituperated by the Chief od Duweinyi Ala families of the Akiala-ame to behave himself, for which he nearly killed off that family after the Chief died. Imagine three people from the same Akiala-ame family called out Amakiri as a slave. These records are available in the Portuguese and English archives and dated as having occurred at about 1772. that means Amakiri was not made a King in the 1600s as you assert, and in fact was never even a Kalabari Chief less he would never have been called out a slave according to the Kalabari culture. These events or incidences are all in the records and dated. So do you realize that you have now shown up yourself as a pathological liar in suggesting that Amakiri was made a King in the 1600s?

By the way, how are doing with your hiding from the US Government regarding your swindling them from the Medical Supplies services? Are you still hiding and writing all these? I suggest you be careful because the NSA just might use this to track you down and have you arrested or extradited from whichever country you are hiding in. That reminds me you are now even a fugitive criminal as a consequence, right?

nayeb:


Tom Alabaraba, would you please stop this nonsense of telling lies. My last name Benebo, is extracted from Chief Benebo Kuruye-Alele, popularly known as Chief Wokoma, who was son of So-Alabo Akoko who was son of Ngo who was the second cousin of Seleye Fubara, which is why Jackreece and Wokoma families are next to each other in Buguma. Seleye Fubara had no child and adopted Jackreece as an Igboman. Seleye Fubara traded with the English at the time under the name of Jack. When the English asked him whom he had brought with him to trade that day he told then this was a man whom he had bought to help him by, and they then in reply said (I paraphrase): "Ohh so this is Jack's leash then" and from then on became known to the English as JackLeash. Interestingly this information is also in the records of the Buguma people and the documents they frequently used to contest the leadership of the Amakiri Enclave and Families and now known as the Amanyanabo of Buguma. Jackleash has since been written as Jackreece when I lived in Buguma and now you fools prefer to style yourselves Jackrich. You are a joker.

You fool, Ombo (or Harry as he is also known) was never from Soku. He was an Igboman murderer that Amakiri bought and brought to Kalabari to kill for him, and the first person he killed was Osimininye Alali. This information is in the Portuguese record and also in the English documents. Ombo was an Igboman and had nothing whatsoever to link to Soku, just as JackLeash has nothing to do with Sangama.

Oh just so you know, Osiniminiye Alali of the Akiala-ame was killed because he came straight-out called Amakiri a slave. Also Amakiri was challenged by Gbana the sister of Osiminimiye Alali to prove that he was in fact not a slave and show the justification he had for murdering her brother which he was never able to prove. He was also called a slave and publicly vituperated by the Chief od Duweinyi Ala families of the Akiala-ame to behave himself, for which he nearly killed off that family after the Chief died. Imagine three people from the same Akiala-ame family called out Amakiri as a slave. These records are available in the Portuguese and English archives and dated as having occurred at about 1772. that means Amakiri was not made a King in the 1600s as you assert, and in fact was never even a Kalabari Chief less he would never have been called out a slave according to the Kalabari culture. These events or incidences are all in the records and dated. So do you realize that you have now shown up yourself as a pathological liar in suggesting that Amakiri was made a King in the 1600s?

By the way, how are doing with your hiding from the US Government regarding your swindling them from the Medical Supplies services? Are you still hiding and writing all these? I suggest you be careful because the NSA just might use this to track you down and have you arrested or extradited from whichever country you are hiding in. That reminds me you are now even a fugitive criminal as a consequence, right?

Stupid Kalabari man digressing from the topic to an assassination attempt... All the rulers of KALABARI are referred to as AMAKIRI so it depends on which AMAKIRI you are talking about. And I am not about History of KALABARI of the 18th and 19th centuries.. I am on IJAW people that lived at the Eastern Ijaws before the 10th century who were never CALLED KALABARI AND they were the IFOKO, SANGAMA, KULA, BILLE, SOKU, ANGULAMA, KE, ABISSA, OPOROAMA , MINAMA, ILELEMA. They were never known as KALABARI and they exsited before the 10th century....

shota:


Stupid Kalabari man digressing from the topic to an assassination attempt... All the rulers of KALABARI are referred to as AMAKIRI so it depends on which AMAKIRI you are talking about. And I am not about History of KALABARI of the 18th and 19th centuries.. I am on IJAW people that lived at the Eastern Ijaws before the 10th century who were never CALLED KALABARI AND they were the IFOKO, SANGAMA, KULA, BILLE, SOKU, ANGULAMA, KE, ABISSA, OPOROAMA , MINAMA, ILELEMA. They were never known as KALABARI and they exsited before the 10th century....

So now your concern is that of Ijaw History of the 10th Century. You see, you liar Amachrees gang have been getting away with your lies which you are frequently revising because the Kalabari descendants have been ignoring you as commoners about whom they wish not to be bothered. But I always knew, even as Alaye Fubara Manuel observed earlier in his books, that once the Kalabari decide to take you on on your pseudo-history telling, you will all become silent with these your lies.

Know this, ninny Tom Alabaraba, I am of Ngo; Ngo being a grandson of Owuerre-Daba; Owuerre-Daba being the grandson of Opukuroye; and Opukuroye being the grandson of Awome who was not related in anyway to Kalabari. So please note that Opukuroye was never a child of Kalabari but a grandson of Awome of Bantu origin.

Also know this I am of the Ende-ame, being of Benebo who was the son of Oruama, the only daughter of Awoye Owukori, the son of Prince Awo to whom the Europeans entrusted their goods being the royal even when Amakiri was poxy for him.

I know the history of the Ede-ame because I am of the blood-line of the Ende-ame, so I can concern myself about Ijaw history if and when I want; I know the history of the Kuro-ame because I am also of the bloodline of the Kuro-ame, and I can concern myself about the Kuro-ame history when and if I want.

What is your reason for concerning yourself about the history of the Ijaws of the 10th Century, after all, i bo na i bara na binrin kalabari na ama bubu? So why do you concern yourself about 10th century Ijaw History, i yeri Ijoi na bo?

nayeb:


So now your concern is that of Ijaw History of the 10th Century. You see, you liar Amachrees gang have been getting away with your lies which you are frequently revising because the Kalabari descendants have been ignoring you as commoners about whom they wish not to be bothered. But I always knew, even as Alaye Fubara Manuel observed earlier in his books, that once the Kalabari decide to take you on on your pseudo-history telling, you will all become silent with these your lies.

Know this, ninny Tom Alabaraba, I am of Ngo; Ngo being a grandson of Owuerre-Daba; Owuerre-Daba being the grandson of Opukuroye; and Opukuroye being the grandson of Awome who was not related in anyway to Kalabari. So please note that Opukuroye was never a child of Kalabari but a grandson of Awome of Bantu origin.

Also know this I am of the Ende-ame, being of Benebo who was the son of Oruama, the only daughter of Awoye Owukori, the son of Prince Awo to whom the Europeans entrusted their goods being the royal even when Amakiri was poxy for him.

I know the history of the Ede-ame because I am of the blood-line of the Ende-ame, so I can concern myself about Ijaw history if and when I want; I know the history of the Kuro-ame because I am also of the bloodline of the Kuro-ame, and I can concern myself about the Kuro-ame history when and if I want.

What is your reason for concerning yourself about the history of the Ijaws of the 10th Century, after all, i bo na i bara na binrin kalabari na ama bubu? So why do you concern yourself about 10th century Ijaw History, i yeri Ijoi na bo?

KALABARI is a kingdom and not even an ethnic group. It is a kingdom made up of Tombia, Kula, Ke, Ifoko, Minama, Angulama, Sangama, Abalama, Oporoama , Abissa , Soku, Ekulema, Ebema and the Kengema group and they are all Ijaw ....so your statement ( What is your reason for concerning yourself about the history of the Ijaws of the 10th Century, after all, i bo na i bara na binrin kalabari na ama bubu? So why do you concern yourself about 10th century Ijaw History, i yeri Ijoi na bo? ) does not make sense. It only shows how ignorant and naive you are about KALABARI .

If you were not daft you'd ve seen that I've been referring to history of the people prior to the 10th century when all the communities and clans I've been mentioning existed not as KALABARI towns but as independent Ijaw settlements with distinct history. . You are so daft that you can not even use simulation to get to a near fact of event. If you were not told by one tale teller you could not also be able to research to find out.. Did God create AWOME directly ?. Have I not explained to you what BANTU is ? Why then do you still say of the BANTU region ? Yorubas, Igbos, Efiks, Ijaws are all part of the BANTU race . Does the word Awome make sense to you ? Can't you even see that the word Awome is an adulterated form of AWO ame which means group of Awos. It's the same group of people that referred to themselves as koro ame and they are just parts of the Opukorye group....Now check your brain by answering these questions.. 1 WHY do KALABARI say they were neighbors of the MBOKO ?? 2. How could Owere ye daba paddle to Arochukwu land from the present day KALABARI land if Owuere ye Daba existed at this modern Kalabari region ? ..3. How could the KALABARIS paddle to SUKU ( Arochukwu ) If they were at this modern Kalabari region ? 4. Did you ever hear of KALABARI paddling across Bonny territory in the days of old ? ..5. If the Awo ame AKA Koro ame were not similar with the Ende ame and the rest how could they have come to live with them speaking the same dialect ? 6. Where are the burial places of all the so called kings you mentioned that were kings of KALABARI at Torusarama piri if they ever existed there ? Go to CALABAR today and start digging and you might find remains of ancient Kalabari KINGS you are talking about.. . Does the word or name Opu koroye sound like Igbo, Efik, Andoni or Ogoni to you ?.. Was it only Ende that Perebo kalabari gave birth to ? Opukoroye is a descendant of Perebo Kalabari . Now one other thing you do not know is this.. That the word KALABARI was not a name but a derog. The Ikwere people of AMAFO AND OTHERS that traded with the Ijaws simply referred to the people as KALABARI because the people were always begging for more by saying .. KALA KE I BARI ( KELE KE IBARI )..This became a derog used by the Ikweres to refer to the Ijaws as in KELE KE IBARI people.. The so called Perebo was just called by his nick name PERE which the Ikweres also understood as leader hence he was dubbed Pere bo of Kele ke ibari people.. ( Perebo KALABARI ).. His real name was not known just as the name of his father was also not known. His father was simply known as a MEIN MAN ( MEIN OWEI ) that came from Ogobiri. . So stop writing 19th century history of few families you know to make it seem Kalabari history. Go and study the history of the IFOKO, MINAMA, ANGULAMA, SANGAMA, KULA, KE, ABISSA, BILLE , OPOROAMA, ILELEMA , SOKU and EKULEAMA ..And study the history of the Koro ame ( Awo ame ) and their movement from the Far East to Torusarama piri in the 16th century. When the Dutch were ruling and in control.

shota:



KALABARI is a kingdom and not even an ethnic group. It is a kingdom made up of Tombia, Kula, Ke, Ifoko, Minama, Angulama, Sangama, Abalama, Oporoama , Abissa , Soku, Ekulema, Ebema and the Kengema group and they are all Ijaw ....so your statement ( What is your reason for concerning yourself about the history of the Ijaws of the 10th Century, after all, i bo na i bara na binrin kalabari na ama bubu? So why do you concern yourself about 10th century Ijaw History, i yeri Ijoi na bo? ) does not make sense. It only shows how ignorant and naive you are about KALABARI .

If you were not daft you'd ve seen that I've been referring to history of the people prior to the 10th century when all the communities and clans I've been mentioning existed not as KALABARI towns but as independent Ijaw settlements with distinct history. . You are so daft that you can not even use simulation to get to a near fact of event. If you were not told by one tale teller you could not also be able to research to find out.. Did God create AWOME directly ?. Have I not explained to you what BANTU is ? Why then do you still say of the BANTU region ? Yorubas, Igbos, Efiks, Ijaws are all part of the BANTU race . Does the word Awome make sense to you ? Can't you even see that the word Awome is an adulterated form of AWO ame which means group of Awos. It's the same group of people that referred to themselves as koro ame and they are just parts of the Opukorye group....Now check your brain by answering these questions.. 1 WHY do KALABARI say they were neighbors of the MBOKO ?? 2. How could Owere ye daba paddle to Arochukwu land from the present day KALABARI land if Owuere ye Daba existed at this modern Kalabari region ? ..3. How could the KALABARIS paddle to SUKU ( Arochukwu ) If they were at this modern Kalabari region ? 4. Did you ever hear of KALABARI paddling across Bonny territory in the days of old ? ..5. If the Awo ame AKA Koro ame were not similar with the Ende ame and the rest how could they have come to live with them speaking the same dialect ? 6. Where are the burial places of all the so called kings you mentioned that were kings of KALABARI at Torusarama piri if they ever existed there ? Go to CALABAR today and start digging and you might find remains of ancient Kalabari KINGS you are talking about.. . Does the word or name Opu koroye sound like Igbo, Efik, Andoni or Ogoni to you ?.. Was it only Ende that Perebo kalabari gave birth to ? Opukoroye is a descendant of Perebo Kalabari . Now one other thing you do not know is this.. That the word KALABARI was not a name but a derog. The Ikwere people of AMAFO AND OTHERS that traded with the Ijaws simply referred to the people as KALABARI because the people were always begging for more by saying .. KALA KE I BARI ( KELE KE IBARI )..This became a derog used by the Ikweres to refer to the Ijaws as in KELE KE IBARI people.. The so called Perebo was just called by his nick name PERE which the Ikweres also understood as leader hence he was dubbed Pere bo of Kele ke ibari people.. ( Perebo KALABARI ).. His real name was not known just as the name of his father was also not known. His father was simply known as a MEIN MAN ( MEIN OWEI ) that came from Ogobiri. . So stop writing 19th century history of few families you know to make it seem Kalabari history. Go and study the history of the IFOKO, MINAMA, ANGULAMA, SANGAMA, KULA, KE, ABISSA, BILLE , OPOROAMA, ILELEMA , SOKU and EKULEAMA ..And study the history of the Koro ame ( Awo ame ) and their movement from the Far East to Torusarama piri in the 16th century. When the Dutch were ruling and in control.

Oooh! The horror! The horror! Here now, a Lazy Brain with pervasive ignorance. "Kalabari is not an Ethnic Nationality" you opine? Oh the horror of ignorance! The Fools Train has also left the station. Now more fools can join the act of hiding under the skirts of Tom Alabaraba.

However, let me set you straight on the most obvious fallacies of your post for which I can provide you with obvious counter-examples. First I say that Kalabari is a confluence of two languages, and you disagree on the grounds that the Ijaws and the Kuro-ame could not have lived together if they did not speak the same language to begin with. Well, here is a counter example: if people with different languages could not live together and originate a new language, then how was Swahili formed?

Here is another counter-example, if as you opined, the Kalabari language had been the native language of the peoples of IFOKO, MINAMA, ANGULAMA, SANGAMA, KULA, KE, ABISSA, BILLE , OPOROAMA, ILELEMA , SOKU and EKULEAMA, then when did the Ke people originate their native language that is known as the "Ke Language"? Yes, surprise! The Ke people have always had their language but also speak Kalabari. So may be you have to find out from the Ke people when they started speaking Kalabari, and what made them speak Kalabari in addition to their native language? Do you know, why you are ignorant about the fact that these communities have had their languages? That is because i bo na i bara na binrin kalabari na ama bubu, translated "both by your arms and your legs in Kalabari lands, your origin is Igbo". Most of these communities have their native languages which the Kalabari people do not understand, except after living in the communities for a while, and they either still speak their native languages (or have stopped speaking the languages since speaking Kalabari) .

Let me give you another lesson in Kalabari, although I am cognizant of the reality that you are simply an "Imitation Kalabari" and not true Kalabari, do please pay attention and learn, Awome and Awo-ame are not the same, but I forgive you as I said you are Imitation Kalabari. You see Awome has the diacritical mark under the 'o' and the Awo-ame does not have the mark, as a result the pronounciation goes something like this for Awome as "Aw or me", while for Awo-ame as "Aw oh a me". Do you do get you now? You see, speaking Kalabari properly is in the inflexion of the intonation, which the Buguma people till today have not mastered; but then as I have always said the Buguma people do not speak Kalabari anyway. They speak Buguma Kalabari that often has its own meaning consistent with their generally Igbo origins.

Now lets see, I have proven by counter-example that any two peoples who originally did not speak the same languages can live together and originate a whole new language; I have proven by counter-example that the Kalabari Clan communities always had their own native languages which they either still speak or do not speak any more, but had one prior to speaking Kalabari; I have also shown by the idiolect of the kalabari language that Awome is not the same as Awo-ame, after all, Awome is as pronounced in "Awome Kasso" in recognition of the people who brought the Kasso to Kalabari. So when I say to you that I am of the Kuro-ame and they were not called by Kuro-ame but rather by "Awome" until the reign of Opukuroye (who was indeed grandson of Awome) then you will know where the expression "Awome Kalabari" came from -which incidentally was the name by which the Kalabari peoples were referenced when King Awome ruled Kalabari. But I forgive you the ignorance, you are of Igbo stock in Kalabari, so you would not know these things, then, of course, you are a lazy brain.

I could tell you what the true Kalabari people mean when they say "they are neighbors of Mboko" but I wont. In the olden days it was becoming to say it, but not these days as we have become modern and civilized. The last time someone very close to me yet much older used the expression with its full meaning, I was nineteen and I cringed and appealed to the person never to use it again. I was told that it was the truth but even then I still cringed and repeated my appeal. But if you must know, ask the Akwa Ibom elders why they hate the Kalabari people being neighbors to them, and if they are calm enough, they will tell you.

Do note that "Suku" is used mostly by the Amachrees and their slaves, Ombo, Edi Abali, etc; and when they use the expression SUKU they do not mean anything even remotely close to Arochukwu like the Igbos. Let me educate you yet again here: When the Amachrees and their slaves take someone to SUKU they simply take the person to a remote location, kill the person and feast on the body. Amakiri came to Kalabari as a result of arson he committed on his hometown of Kolo for a supposed slight to his family for not being given proportionate amount of human flesh to eat during the community's annual ceremony of human feasting. The Amachrees are cannibals and they used to annually feast on human beings. Get it into your head, SUKU is a euphemism of the Amachrees and their Igbo slaves for human feasting festivity. I hope that I have been able to educate you on this critical issue.

Finally about my use of the term Bantu. You see, you are stupid because if I use a term repeatedly in a manner that has a different meaning from your understanding of the word, the right thing to do -which is what an intelligent person would do- is to ask me what do you mean by your usage of the term Bantu? I continue to use it because I am implicitly telling you that your understanding is wrong. You see, there is still today a small place around Dukes town in Cross-Rivers State that is identified as Bantu in assertion of their difference and origin. In my book, I took the time to explain the significance of their doing so, even as the Duweinyi-Ala family has now taken to differentiating themselves from the rest of the Briggs by pointedly calling themselves as Akiala. These Bantu people are the remainder of the community from which Awome and his people came to join Kalabari at Obu-amafor (Elemu Kalabari), and their original language forms the base of the current Kalabari language, which was also originated at Obu-amafor before the migration of the whole community to Iwo Kalabari (Old Shipping). Please note that when a true Kalabari person says "Elemu Kalabari" they do not mean Old Shipping, they mean Obu-amafor, only the "Imitation Kalabari" or Buguma people think Elemu Kalabari means Old Shipping, but that because they mix up Elemu Ama with Elemu Kalabari. Elemu Ama, which is normally used relative to the present "Ama" in reference, would be Old Shipping or Iwo Kalabari, but not Elemu Kalabari

Next time I will educate you on how the Kalabari language that was developed at Elemu Kalabari became so pervasively used in the eastern Niger Delta. I had been asked this question before when I was on Ijawnation chatroom, and answered it.

nayeb:


Oooh! The horror! The horror! Here now, a Lazy Brain with pervasive ignorance. "Kalabari is not an Ethnic Nationality" you opine? Oh the horror of ignorance! The Fools Train has also left the station. Now more fools can join the act of hiding under the skirts of Tom Alabaraba.

However, let me set you straight on the most obvious fallacies of your post for which I can provide you with obvious counter-examples. First I say that Kalabari is a confluence of two languages, and you disagree on the grounds that the Ijaws and the Kuro-ame could not have lived together if they did not speak the same language to begin with. Well, here is a counter example: if people with different languages could not live together and originate a new language, then how was Swahili formed?

Here is another counter-example, if as you opined, the Kalabari language had been the native language of the peoples of IFOKO, MINAMA, ANGULAMA, SANGAMA, KULA, KE, ABISSA, BILLE , OPOROAMA, ILELEMA , SOKU and EKULEAMA, then when did the Ke people originate their native language that is known as the "Ke Language"? Yes, surprise! The Ke people have always had their language but also speak Kalabari. So may be you have to find out from the Ke people when they started speaking Kalabari, and what made them speak Kalabari in addition to their native language? Do you know, why you are ignorant about the fact that these communities have had their languages? That is because i bo na i bara na binrin kalabari na ama bubu, translated "both by your arms and your legs in Kalabari lands, your origin is Igbo". Most of these communities have their native languages which the Kalabari people do not understand, except after living in the communities for a while, and they either still speak their native languages (or have stopped speaking the languages since speaking Kalabari) .

Let me give you another lesson in Kalabari, although I am cognizant of the reality that you are simply an "Imitation Kalabari" and not true Kalabari, do please pay attention and learn, Awome and Awo-ame are not the same, but I forgive you as I said you are Imitation Kalabari. You see Awome has the diacritical mark under the 'o' and the Awo-ame does not have the mark, as a result the pronounciation goes something like this for Awome as "Aw or me", while for Awo-ame as "Aw oh a me". Do you do get you now? You see, speaking Kalabari properly is in the inflexion of the intonation, which the Buguma people till today have not mastered; but then as I have always said the Buguma people do not speak Kalabari anyway. They speak Buguma Kalabari that often has its own meaning consistent with their generally Igbo origins.

Now lets see, I have proven by counter-example that any two peoples who originally did not speak the same languages can live together and originate a whole new language; I have proven by counter-example that the Kalabari Clan communities always had their own native languages which they either still speak or do not speak any more, but had one prior to speaking Kalabari; I have also shown by the idiolect of the kalabari language that Awome is not the same as Awo-ame, after all, Awome is as pronounced in "Awome Kasso" in recognition of the people who brought the Kasso to Kalabari. So when I say to you that I am of the Kuro-ame and they were not called by Kuro-ame but rather by "Awome" until the reign of Opukuroye (who was indeed grandson of Awome) then you will know where the expression "Awome Kalabari" came from -which incidentally was the name by which the Kalabari peoples were referenced when King Awome ruled Kalabari. But I forgive you the ignorance, you are of Igbo stock in Kalabari, so you would not know these things, then, of course, you are a lazy brain.

I could tell you what the true Kalabari people mean when they say "they are neighbors of Mboko" but I wont. In the olden days it was becoming to say it, but not these days as we have become modern and civilized. The last time someone very close to me yet much older used the expression with its full meaning, I was nineteen and I cringed and appealed to the person never to use it again. I was told that it was the truth but even then I still cringed and repeated my appeal. But if you must know, ask the Akwa Ibom elders why they hate the Kalabari people being neighbors to them, and if they are calm enough, they will tell you.

Do note that "Suku" is used mostly by the Amachrees and their slaves, Ombo, Edi Abali, etc; and when they use the expression SUKU they do not mean anything even remotely close to Arochukwu like the Igbos. Let me educate you yet again here: When the Amachrees and their slaves take someone to SUKU they simply take the person to a remote location, kill the person and feast on the body. Amakiri came to Kalabari as a result of arson he committed on his hometown of Kolo for a supposed slight to his family for not being given proportionate amount of human flesh to eat during the community's annual ceremony of human feasting. The Amachrees are cannibals and they used to annually feast on human beings. Get it into your head, SUKU is a euphemism of the Amachrees and their Igbo slaves for human feasting festivity. I hope that I have been able to educate you on this critical issue.

Finally about my use of the term Bantu. You see, you are stupid because if I use a term repeatedly in a manner that has a different meaning from your understanding of the word, the right thing to do -which is what an intelligent person would do- is to ask me what do you mean by your usage of the term Bantu? I continue to use it because I am implicitly telling you that your understanding is wrong. You see, there is still today a small place around Dukes town in Cross-Rivers State that is identified as Bantu in assertion of their difference and origin. In my book, I took the time to explain the significance of their doing so, even as the Duweinyi-Ala family has now taken to differentiating themselves from the rest of the Briggs by pointedly calling themselves as Akiala. These Bantu people are the remainder of the community from which Awome and his people came to join Kalabari at Obu-amafor (Elemu Kalabari), and their original language forms the base of the current Kalabari language, which was also originated at Obu-amafor before the migration of the whole community to Iwo Kalabari (Old Shipping). Please note that when a true Kalabari person says "Elemu Kalabari" they do not mean Old Shipping, they mean Obu-amafor, only the "Imitation Kalabari" or Buguma people think Elemu Kalabari means Old Shipping, but that because they mix up Elemu Ama with Elemu Kalabari. Elemu Ama, which is normally used relative to the present "Ama" in reference, would be Old Shipping or Iwo Kalabari, but not Elemu Kalabari

Next time I will educate you on how the Kalabari language that was developed at Elemu Kalabari became so pervasively used in the eastern Niger Delta. I had been asked this question before when I was on Ijawnation chatroom, and answered it.

BRIEF IDAMA ( EKULEMA ) HISTORY BY THE NATIVES.

Idama is an island located in the creeks of the mangrove forest of the oil rich Niger Delta area of Nigeria.it is part of Akuku Toru local government area of Rivers. There are numerous settlements in the Idama territory, which combine with the Idama clan to form the Idama Kingdom. These are situated in various locations around the area, the Idama clan is the major settlement in the kingdom, which serve as the headquarters. Idama kingdom, like other coastal kingdoms, is a low-lying land in the vast mangrove forest region and is only few feet above sea level. It is situated in the south-western part of Present Akuku Toru Local government area of Rivers State. It is an island on the bank of Idama Creek, a tributary of the sombriero River (Olulo Toru) and the San bartholemew River. Someone coming from Abonnema will sail along the sombriero River south-west into the Idama creek, Welcoming you into a warm embrace.
History
Before King Amachree I became the ruler of the main Kalabari people at their "ELEM AMA" or the Old shipping settlement near the north of the Atlantic Ocean in the New Calabar River, in the 17th century, and brought about the amalgamation and unification of all the kalabari kingdoms of today, under his over-riding power and Rulership. The Idama Community was existing as a distinct and autonomous community of it own. Still in the area presently occupied by the community between the axis of the San bartholemew and sombriero Rivers. The Idamacommunity People, by history were Ijaws who migrated from Okpoin-AMA, the native place of the Idama people, in the present day Ijaw Area of Bayelsa State, in Pre-colonial days, in time immemorial. The people left Okpoin-AMA in search of a better place of abode and fortune, as Okpoin-AMA was frequently threatened by devastating Flood. Six headmen, lead the migration, these were; Opu-adwein Ebe Otukpo Obio Akain Atumogoli Being predominantly migrant fisher folks, the people sojourned from one fishing camp to another along their route, settling in such notable places like Aba -AMA and Boro-AMA in the tributary of the San-Bartholomew river, Kala-EKULAMA and Darima near Ke, in present day Degema Local government area of Rivers state of Nigeria. After a period of time at Lele-AMA the people finally settled at a firmer and bigger bush land in the interior, but close to the open sombriero River, a place they christianed Okpoin-AMA after the recent place of the EKULAMA people. The only people at that time around the Okpoin-AMA where the Ebema and Bille people. Ebema was founded by EBE who shifted camp from Okpoin-AMA to a dry land just across the sombriero river on the opposite side of Okpoin-AMA and settled there with his family. While living at Ebema, Ebe the Amayanabo of Ebema became friends with Agbani the Amayanabo of Bille. This relationship made Agbani to marry a woman from Ebema, who gave birth to a male child named Agbaniye- OKIO. While living at Ebema,

shota:




BRIEF IDAMA ( EKULEMA ) HISTORY BY THE NATIVES.

Idama is an island located in the creeks of the mangrove forest of the oil rich Niger Delta area of Nigeria.it is part of Akuku Toru local government area of Rivers. There are numerous settlements in the Idama territory, which combine with the Idama clan to form the Idama Kingdom. These are situated in various locations around the area, the Idama clan is the major settlement in the kingdom, which serve as the headquarters. Idama kingdom, like other coastal kingdoms, is a low-lying land in the vast mangrove forest region and is only few feet above sea level. It is situated in the south-western part of Present Akuku Toru Local government area of Rivers State. It is an island on the bank of Idama Creek, a tributary of the sombriero River (Olulo Toru) and the San bartholemew River. Someone coming from Abonnema will sail along the sombriero River south-west into the Idama creek, Welcoming you into a warm embrace.
History
Before King Amachree I became the ruler of the main Kalabari people at their "ELEM AMA" or the Old shipping settlement near the north of the Atlantic Ocean in the New Calabar River, in the 17th century, and brought about the amalgamation and unification of all the kalabari kingdoms of today, under his over-riding power and Rulership. The Idama Community was existing as a distinct and autonomous community of it own. Still in the area presently occupied by the community between the axis of the San bartholemew and sombriero Rivers. The Idamacommunity People, by history were Ijaws who migrated from Okpoin-AMA, the native place of the Idama people, in the present day Ijaw Area of Bayelsa State, in Pre-colonial days, in time immemorial. The people left Okpoin-AMA in search of a better place of abode and fortune, as Okpoin-AMA was frequently threatened by devastating Flood. Six headmen, lead the migration, these were; Opu-adwein Ebe Otukpo Obio Akain Atumogoli Being predominantly migrant fisher folks, the people sojourned from one fishing camp to another along their route, settling in such notable places like Aba -AMA and Boro-AMA in the tributary of the San-Bartholomew river, Kala-EKULAMA and Darima near Ke, in present day Degema Local government area of Rivers state of Nigeria. After a period of time at Lele-AMA the people finally settled at a firmer and bigger bush land in the interior, but close to the open sombriero River, a place they christianed Okpoin-AMA after the recent place of the EKULAMA people. The only people at that time around the Okpoin-AMA where the Ebema and Bille people. Ebema was founded by EBE who shifted camp from Okpoin-AMA to a dry land just across the sombriero river on the opposite side of Okpoin-AMA and settled there with his family. While living at Ebema, Ebe the Amayanabo of Ebema became friends with Agbani the Amayanabo of Bille. This relationship made Agbani to marry a woman from Ebema, who gave birth to a male child named Agbaniye- OKIO. While living at Ebema,

Hey Genius! Please tell what new information you have presented in the above post of yours that have not been addressed before? Looks like you are beginning to recycle the same things again and again. You may have become a schizophrenic -who believes that if you did the same enough times, a different result will come about. Or may be you are just mentally retarded. So then I should start addressing you as Retard Lazy Brain.

Did I not ask you "why there has been no Treaty signed by Amakiri if he was ruling in the 17th Century?" which you could not answer and here you have brought it up again without first answering my question. You are a mental retard

nayeb:


Hey Genius! Please tell what new information you have presented in the above post of yours that have not been addressed before? Looks like you are beginning to recycle the same things again and again. You may have become a schizophrenic -who believes that if you did the same enough times, a different result will come about. Or may be you are just mentally retarded. So then I should start addressing you as Retard Lazy Brain.

Did I not ask you "why there has been no Treaty signed by Amakiri if he was ruling in the 17th Century?" which you could not answer and here you have brought it up again without first answering my question. You are a mental retard

You have understanding problem. Might be due to old age or you are just daft. So move on.. This was not written by me but by IDAMA people and posted on wikki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idama

I stated earlier that the ancient Ijaw people of KULA, KE, IDAMA, BILLE, TOMBIA, KE, MINAMA, IFOKO, ANGULAMA, ILELEMA, SOKU, KRAKRAMA, SANGAMA, ABALAMA, OPOROAMA, TEMA Have their own distinct history and they spoke the same Ijaw language which we now call Kalabari , Ibani Okrika and Bille... These were the same language in the ancient days.

Ke people published their History late 2014 so go meet Ke people and get their history and read.. By the way you never knew KE is among the OLDEST settlements in the Easten Niger Delta and Torusarama piri was a KE settlement ( KE ANGA BE AMA ) which means a town in KE territory..

shota:


You have understanding problem. Might be due to old age or you are just daft. So move on.. This was not written by me but by IDAMA people and posted on wikki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idama

I stated earlier that the ancient Ijaw people of KULA, KE, IDAMA, BILLE, TOMBIA, KE, MINAMA, IFOKO, ANGULAMA, ILELEMA, SOKU, KRAKRAMA, SANGAMA, ABALAMA, OPOROAMA, TEMA Have their own distinct history and they spoke the same Ijaw language which we now call Kalabari , Ibani Okrika and Bille... These were the same language in the ancient days.

Ke people published their History late 2014 so go meet Ke people and get their history and read.. By the way you never knew KE is among the OLDEST settlements in the Easten Niger Delta and Torusarama piri was a KE settlement ( KE ANGA BE AMA ) which means a town in KE territory..

I can see, that you are really really mental derelict. The assertion I made to you in the last response is this: If anyone recalls something that disagrees with many other historical accounts and even more so with written documents of events as they occurred, then the history so recalled is false. Did you notice that there is no time-line in the history they recalled. Really you should read my book and learn a few things about how history can be recalled in the context of timeline. Further there is a written record in a diary of an English who was in Bonny when Pere Ekula ate the heart of Amakiri at about 1802. There is an written record in the diary of Captain Hugh Crowe, who was at Bonny at the time at 1770, of the death of King Kalagbaa, the ruler of Kalabari. These records are in the Oxford University Library Archives and people like you can not change them. Do you understand that the nonsense those Idama boys are writing is just that: Nonsense. You are a mentally deficient fool.

You are also mentally deprived; Bukuma recently sued the Opu Benibo family and recovered their lands that he (Opu Benibo) tried to take from them fraudulently. So why hasn't the Ke people sued the Kalabri people and recovered the land that you allege rightfully belongs to them? You are also mentally deprived, because Ke and Kula used to charge the Kalabari people waterways commission for using their waterways as access to the seas to sell their goods, not once did the Ke people or the Kula people ever charge the Kalabari people rent for the land. Does that tell you something, you stupid fool? You mean they could charge rent for use of their waterways and would not charge rent for their land. You are really really stupid.

But you are right, you are too stupid for me to waste my time with you. Age brings with it wisdom. You should never reference anything that is false, because you make yourself look bad as you show up yourself as mental derelict.

nayeb:


I can see, that you are really really mental derelict. The assertion I made to you in the last response is this: If anyone recalls something that disagrees with many other historical accounts and even more so with written documents of events as they occurred, then the history so recalled is false. Did you notice that there is no time-line in the history they recalled. Really you should read my book and learn a few things about how history can be recalled in the context of timeline. Further there is a written record in a diary of an English who was in Bonny when Pere Ekula ate the heart of Amakiri at about 1802. There is an written record in the diary of Captain Hugh Crowe, who was at Bonny at the time at 1770, of the death of King Kalagbaa, the ruler of Kalabari. These records are in the Oxford University Library Archives and people like you can not change them. Do you understand that the nonsense those Idama boys are writing is just that: Nonsense. You are a mentally deficient fool.

You are also mentally deprived; Bukuma recently sued the Opu Benibo family and recovered their lands that he (Opu Benibo) tried to take from them fraudulently. So why hasn't the Ke people sued the Kalabri people and recovered the land that you allege rightfully belongs to them? You are also mentally deprived, because Ke and Kula used to charge the Kalabari people waterways commission for using their waterways as access to the seas to sell their goods, not once did the Ke people or the Kula people ever charge the Kalabari people rent for the land. Does that tell you something, you stupid fool? You mean they could charge rent for use of their waterways and would not charge rent for their land. You are really really stupid.

But you are right, you are too stupid for me to waste my time with you. Age brings with it wisdom. You should never reference anything that is false, because you make yourself look bad as you show up yourself as mental derelict.

Mr Daft .. The point I am making is this.. Your king Kalagbea was the king of the KALABARI people who were the Koro ame people at Torusarama piri. Mind you the wards of Torusarama piri were independent of each other. Each of the wards had it's own ruler . Members of the wards were from the ancient clans I ve mentioned and other far away Ijaw clans never mentioned like Ogbia and even Nembe. The Koro ame people were known as KALABARI people.. When Okrika destroyed Torusarama piri, The Koro ame ward was the most destroyed. It seemed they lost many of their able men includuing their leaders. And so they could bring an able person to lead Torusarama piri when all the wards wanted a single leader. . I dont want to go further on this.. So let me ask you this question.. DO THE PEOPLE KULA, KE, MINAMA, ABISSE, ANGULAMA, BILLE, TOMBIA, SOKU, SANGAMA, ILELEMA, IFOKO, OPOROAMA , TEMA and so on have HISTORY of their own ? What were their language and were they existing or not Prior to the 10th century ?

nayeb:


I can see, that you are really really mental derelict. The assertion I made to you in the last response is this: If anyone recalls something that disagrees with many other historical accounts and even more so with written documents of events as they occurred, then the history so recalled is false. Did you notice that there is no time-line in the history they recalled. Really you should read my book and learn a few things about how history can be recalled in the context of timeline. Further there is a written record in a diary of an English who was in Bonny when Pere Ekula ate the heart of Amakiri at about 1802. There is an written record in the diary of Captain Hugh Crowe, who was at Bonny at the time at 1770, of the death of King Kalagbaa, the ruler of Kalabari. These records are in the Oxford University Library Archives and people like you can not change them. Do you understand that the nonsense those Idama boys are writing is just that: Nonsense. You are a mentally deficient fool.

You are also mentally deprived; Bukuma recently sued the Opu Benibo family and recovered their lands that he (Opu Benibo) tried to take from them fraudulently. So why hasn't the Ke people sued the Kalabri people and recovered the land that you allege rightfully belongs to them? You are also mentally deprived, because Ke and Kula used to charge the Kalabari people waterways commission for using their waterways as access to the seas to sell their goods, not once did the Ke people or the Kula people ever charge the Kalabari people rent for the land. Does that tell you something, you stupid fool? You mean they could charge rent for use of their waterways and would not charge rent for their land. You are really really stupid.

But you are right, you are too stupid for me to waste my time with you. Age brings with it wisdom. You should never reference anything that is false, because you make yourself look bad as you show up yourself as mental derelict.

KE is the mother of KALABARI... Where were your Abonnema people when Ke successfuly defended itself from BILLE attacks ? Don't you also know that The entire Elem ama region today all the way to Ke forest and elem Ifoko still belong to Ke, Ifoko and Tombia ? The Buguma, Abonnema and BAKANA people are only part of it cos they were the natives of Torusarama piri ( Elem ama ) whose forefathers were Keni, Ifoko and others . Your brain can not understand intricate issues.

shota:


KE is the mother of KALABARI... Where were your Abonnema people when Ke successfuly defended itself from BILLE attacks ? Don't you also know that The entire Elem ama region today all the way to Ke forest and elem Ifoko still belong to Ke, Ifoko and Tombia ? The Buguma, Abonnema and BAKANA people are only part of it cos they were the natives of Torusarama piri ( Elem ama ) whose forefathers were Keni, Ifoko and others . Your brain can not understand intricate issues.

Hey Genius! My brain can not understand intricate issues (you opine), yet I have been told "LOL.. Uncle Benebo, Go and Teach Physics and make use of the quantum laws that you know better". What can be more intricate than Quantum Mechanics -the most counter-intuitive subject or the the most intuitive task of recalling history? Perhaps it is because I study the counter-intuitive subject that is why I can poke holes in your intuitive arguments, and show you up as the mentally derelict fool that you are.

nayeb:


Hey Genius! My brain can not understand intricate issues (you opine), yet I have been told "LOL.. Uncle Benebo, Go and Teach Physics and make use of the quantum laws that you know better". What can be more intricate than Quantum Mechanics -the most counter-intuitive subject or the the most intuitive task of recalling history? Perhaps it is because I study the counter-intuitive subject that is why I can poke holes in your intuitive arguments, and show you up as the mentally derelict fool that you are.

Tell us what you know about the clans I mentioned and about the various wards that lived in Torusarama piri as independent people prior to the 10th century... That is the argument and not anything about what you have been blabbing about.

shota:



Tell us what you know about the clans I mentioned and about the various wards that lived in Torusarama piri as independent people prior to the 10th century... That is the argument and not anything about what you have been blabbing about.

Hey Genius! If I told you anything I know, and then you repeated it later, how could I come out and be blabbing? Indeed, that would put us on the same side. Really, it would be better if you got your information from somewhere else so I could come out and be blabbing when you write nonsense. But seriously are you that mentally indolent as to ask me for information when you are the one doing the research and not me? Is there no one in your family who is my equal in intellect and capability of processing intricate issues as I do Quantum Mechanics, who can give you the information you seek? Oh sorry, my bad! You do not have anybody in your family who is my intellectual equal, that is why you only had the nonsense information I have been discrediting all these while, you mentally lethargic punk-ass kid.

All my life I was told the kalabari people are related to the ijaws. Though my dad never called himself an Ijaw man. He called himself kalabari man. The Ijaws to him were the Riverine people of the then Bendel state, people from Now Bayelsa state . Even those from Bendel now delta were sometimes called Izon.

Biko, can someone tell me the story behind wayingi and Akaso? I am very much interested. Though I am Kalabari Abonnema to be precise, I do not know much about them.

kiwi992:
Hi Ow11,


Tell you the truth, I thought the write-up was much too long so I didn't bother to read all of it.  I decided to skim through the rest, after noticing a significant error under 'SETTING'.  There, the writer mentions 'canoe house'. 

Be rest assured that there is no such thing as a 'canoe house' in Kalabari kingdom.  Most definitely not!  Take it from me - I originate from Bakana and if I don't know my own history then I might as well give up and not bother knowing anything about other people and their cultures.

Any Kalabari would tell you that we have family compounds (polo).  Such compounds as Princewill polo, Erekeosima polo (Buguma) Bob Manuel polo, Briggs polo (Abonnema), Iyalla (Yellowe) polo, Braide polo, Davies polo (Bakana), and so on, in all the thirty three towns and villages that make up Kalabari kingdom.  Those are NOT 'canoe houses' as the writer seemed to imply.  Surely, they are compounds, stupid!  What a plonker - he's got his history mixed-up!

The compounds are a grouping of related family members, their wives (both Kalabari and non-Kalabari), subjects, workers, ex-slaves (who got automatically assimilated into the Kalabari society through various native ceremonies and change of name to a Kalabari one) - by the way we don't call anybody a 'slave' (omoni bo), never!  It is a derogatory term in Kalabari society.

In ancient times, each compound in every town was required, in times of war, to bring forth an armada of boats (omu aru), armed with canons (kurusu), guns (alagba), gun powder and so on.  By the way, we got our arms and ammunition from the Europeans as a result of trading with them, being that the peoples of the Niger Delta were the first to come in contact with them.  The boats in the armada were usually manned by strong and fearless male warriors.  Each warrior wore a bandana on his forehead, with a white feather stuck through the bandana, immediately above his right ear.  The warriors rowed the boats frantically but in a synchronised manner, accompanied by a frenzied beating of the traditional drums (akwa) as well as other musical instruments such as nkuro, kuku, and so on.  The atmosphere in the boat was highly charged, the warriors all hyped up, and fearless of death because they were going to war inorder to protect the Kalabari kingdom.   At the helm of the armada was the coxswain (pronounced 'kok-sin') - or 'commodore' in modern military terms.  He was the one in-charge of his own armada of war boats, their steering and direction.  He was the one who would be standing up all the while in the leading boat, and pouring incantation into the river with the local gin (akamiri) and calling out the names of our ancestors, the water spirits, as well as the goddess of the Kalabari people (Awomine Akaso - a female whose shrine still stands today in Elem Kalabari, otherwise known as Elem Ama) and so on, for safety and protection.  Each boat in the armada had buntings and raffia dorned all over it and most of all, flew the flag of its compound to signify its origin. 

The armada was a common war effort by every compound making up a Kalabari town or village, inorder to maintain the integrity of the Kalabari kingdom i.e. to protect its people, land and rivers as well as fight its enemies.  If an aggressor attacked a Kalabari town or village, that meant that the one attacked ALL of the Kalabari towns and villages and would be faced by the combined Kalabari forces.

The war boats would usually rendezvous at strategic points along the banks of the various rivers in Kalabari - for example along the New Calabar River (Bakana), River Sombreiro (Abonnema), Asari Toru (Buguma), the rivers in Tombia, Elem Kalabari, Kula (which is right at the tip of the Atlantic Ocean), Ke, Degema, Obuama (Harry's Town) and so on.

Having an armada was a necessity for us because Elem Kalabari (Old Kalabari) was frequently attacked by its neighbours in ancient times.  It was for this reason that the Kalabari chiefs took the strategic decision to split Elem Kalabari into three main towns and thirty smaller towns and villages, so as to re-locate the Kalabari people in various key areas of the Niger Delta, inorder to forestall any attack from unfriendly neighbours and Europeans invading from the sea.  This was a movement of the Kalabari people, many hundreds of years ago and long before the slave trade ever started, with Paramount Chief Iyalla (Pina Pina Inai), his chiefs and people moving first, to found Bakana, then Abonnema and lastly Buguma (the capital of Kalabari kingdom and where the ama nyana bo - king, resides), followed by the rest of the towns and villages.  Good thinking on their part if, you ask me.

The boats never ever, formed the basis of a family unit - what the writer calls 'canoe house'  I'm most surprised that the writer, a Kalabari, doesn't know that!  Any Kalabari child would tell you that.

If you look at Google Earth or a map of the Rivers/Bayelsa States, you would see the strategic location of the various Kalabari towns and villages.  An example being Bakana, located nearest to Port Harcourt, to forestall any attack from Okrika, Bonny and Opobo, then Buguma - located where it is, to forestall any attack coming from Iwo Fe and sorrounding areas (the Ikwerres never waged any war against the Kalabari people in the olden days, so we never saw them as a threat, still we had to be prepared, just in case), whilst Abonnema was strategically located to fend off any attack from the Ijaws (Nembe, Brass and so on).  So are the other towns and villages - Tombia, Kula (to ward off any attack coming from the Atlantic Ocean, UNTIL help arrived from all the other Kalabari towns and villages.

The Ibos never waged any war against the Kalabari people in the olden days because that would have meant their having to cross the rivers to invade us, which they couldn't, simply because they are an upland people that didn't know the topology of the riverine area or indeed, how to swim, for that matter.  Rather, we waged wars against them (sadly), for our own selfish reasons, mainly to fuel the slave trade.  They still hate us up 'til today for that and I don't blame them for it. 

In view of our first contact with the Europeans, we (the peoples of the Niger Delta) were the first to trade with the rest of the world as well as being heavily involved in the shameful slave trade.  In Kalabari, we have a collection of traditional clothing called 'india', 'madras' 'njiri', jewellery, artifacts and so on, that were procured as a result of this.  These are never sold, instead, they remain in the family heirloom and have done so for centuries.  They are used to dress up the bed on which the departed is laid (only if the one died very old as opposed to dying young), and such special occasions as weddings, to dress up a woman on her emergence from the fattening room (iria) and so on.

Going by the names of some of our traditional clothings as mentioned above, I'm of the strong opinion that the Kalabari people must have had strong trading links with the Indians in the olden days.  Other than that, I couldn't figure out as to how traditional clothings that are centuries old could have been given Indian names by our forefathers.   

Talking about independence and self-reliance, I was taught to be independent by my dad at a very young age and that has helped me a lot in my adulthood.  If that runs through the Kalabari people, then that's all well and good.  However, I can not vouch for the rest 'cos I don't live at home.  One thing though, I know that the Kalabaris are a fiercely proud people.  Much too proud if you ask me and tend to look down on other neighbouring tribes.  That's surely something with which I don't agree, especially, after having faced racism living in the West.  The Kalabaris would never wish to do anything to tarnish the family name either.   

Lastly, I feel the writer made too complex a thing of the so-called 'counterfoil' choice scenario.  I didn't quite like his use of the word 'counterfoil' either.  There are much better words that would have clearly imparted the idea he was trying to convey.  Again, the scenario should have been made a lot simpler.  That said, I understand that he was writing from the Nigerian perspective and way of self-expression.  The rest of the discourse seems to be too long-winded for my liking.  Too much waffling, if you ask me and not straight to the point.  However, the facts are essentially true except the major error that I pointed out.

Oh yeah, the English anthropologist, Dr Hutton immersed himself in Kalabari culture and tradition and was made a Kalabari chief.  He spoke the language much better than most of us as kids whilst I was at home.  I remember that he used to call us up and correct our Kalabari grammar!  He actually wrote a book about the Kalabari language with a family member of mine - the late Dr C.I Berepiki.      



kiwi992.


NB:

Without wishing to stir up things and with all goodwill in the world, I honestly feel that the Federal Government of Nigeria should engage in genuine dialogue with MEND because, going by the history of the people there, they know the riverine area like they know the back of their palms, as shown here.  It would be nigh impossible to defeat them simply for that reason.  If anyone thinks that military action is the only solution to the problems there, then, the one needs to have the one's head examined.

The peoples of the Niger Delta have been fighting wars from time immemorial.  They had been engaged in wars with the European slave traders that came from the sea (under the pretext of Christianity), hostile neighbours, and so on.  It must be noted that we were never conquered by the European slave traders, despite their guns and ammunition.  Rather, we were their trading partners in the illicit trade involving human beings.  I can, but only attribute this military success to our sound military strategy.  That experience had taught us how to engage in a military theatre.  The military strategy that's involved in all of this is all too self-evident, even in this little write-up of mine.

Hope you can see my point because I don't condone violence of any sort.  Dialogue and fair play is what would win the hearts and minds of the peoples of the Niger Delta.

Now, lets get talking seriously and unite Nigeria once again.  Let's start re-building the country and cast out the corrupt politicians by throwing them to the sharks to feed upon.   

This man, you know a lot.

delishpot:
All my life I was told the kalabari people are related to the ijaws. Though my dad never called himself an Ijaw man. He called himself kalabari man. The Ijaws to him were the Riverine people of the then Bendel state, people from Now Bayelsa state . Even those from Bendel now delta were sometimes called Izon.

Biko, can someone tell me the story behind wayingi and Akaso? I am very much interested. Though I am Kalabari Abonnema to be precise, I do not know much about them.

It is okay to be ignorant, but you are not permitted to display ignorance.

ijawcitizen:
It is okay to be ignorant, but you are not permitted to display ignorance.

What has that got to do with anything brother? To lash at someone just hungry you?

delishpot:


What has that got to do with anything brother? To lash at someone just hungry you?

My apologies if you feel I'm lashing at you brother,
At least you got my point.

ijawcitizen:
My apologies if you feel I'm lashing at you brother,
At least you got my point.

Its all good. I never claim to know it for certain. I know what I know from what my dad said while he was with us. I made that fact clear too. Eh, one love Iyinbere.

delishpot:
All my life I was told the kalabari people are related to the ijaws. Though my dad never called himself an Ijaw man. He called himself kalabari man. The Ijaws to him were the Riverine people of the then Bendel state, people from Now Bayelsa state . Even those from Bendel now delta were sometimes called Izon.

Biko, can someone tell me the story behind wayingi and Akaso? I am very much interested. Though I am Kalabari Abonnema to be precise, I do not know much about them.

The BIKO you used confirms you to be an IGBO man.. Many Igbo people were brought to Abonnema and those Igbos are not Ijaws but Igbo and you are one of them.... God and find the meaning of KALABARI and also find out if Come in Kalabari is Igbo or Ijaw.. Also find out why Okrika, Kalabari, Bille and Ibani dialects are almost the same . Find out who the people of Ke, Kula, Minama, Soku are and tell me if they are Kalabari or Ijaw.. Confused people like you need to be first flogged in the public before teaching the right thing.. Igbo fool like you.. I am Kalabari and I am Ijaw by Tribe . We the Ijaws of KALABARI own KALABARI and not you the Igbos.