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True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by donborg(m): 2:05pm On Jan 05, 2022
Aro are really not true Igbos. This is the reason why Igbo did not support the Aro during the British/ Aro wars of 1912. Before the war, the British had carried out a propaganda campaign to sensitize the Igbo of the nefarious activities of the Aro ibibio god Ibini Ukpabi and expose their clandestine wickedness to the Igbo who went to consult it.
Using various cunning tricks and divide and rule tactics, the Aro, originally Efiks from Calabar, sold more than 3 million Igbos into slavery without actually conquering Igbo land, with help from Abiriba, Ohafia and Edda brethren.
I have extensively studied and researched Aro history and found out that they have very little in common with Igbo except to pilfer us to be sold as slaves as we are a land locked people.
Arochukwu town was originally owned by the Ibibio and was called Obong okon ita and Ibom isii, before the coming of
an Igbo group from Abiriba led by Eze agwu.
With time, the Igbo group from Abiriba under Eze awgu and another from Edda called Nnachi ipia a native doctor fought a series of wars with the Ibibio King along with a faction of the Ibibio led by the half brother of the King prince Akpakpoko but were unsuccessful.
It is important to note however that the Igbo group from Abiriba and Edda were originally from Akpa or Akwa akpa the former local name of the present Duke town in Calabar. This means that they were not the Aborigines of Abiriba town but were Efiks as Akpa people are Efiks/Ekois.
When they could not defeat the Ibibio, the Nnachi ipia group called for Akpa King for help. The Akpa King then sent warriors led by Osim and Akuma Nnubi from Akwa akpa /Calabar who then had guns.
Armed with these guns, the Akpa warriors helped to defeat the Ibibios but Osim Nnubi together with the Ibibio prince Akpakpako were killed in the process.
After the war, Akuma Nnubi then became the new King of Arochukwu.
After his death the son of Nnachi apia, Oke Nnachi became King and his descendants have ruled Arochukwu till date.
Arochukwu then began to expand into the core Igbo area.
The Aro led by mgboko izuogo with help from their brothers at Abiriba, Ohafia, Edda and Abam utterly destroyed and annihilated the isuama aborigines of ikpa ora in imo state, resettling there and renamed it Aro ndi izuogu.
They did this same thing to numerous Igbo societies, setting up numerous Aro settlements and native doctor/dibia shrines through out Igbo land.
Whenever an Igbo runs to the shrine, they became an OSU to serve the deities for generations.
It is said that the Aro themselves also sent agents to cause mayhems in Igbo land so Igbo would run to the shrines for safety and protection. The shrines will then offer them protection by making them OSU, a slave of the shrine, together with his descendants.
These OSU were ostracized by Igbo people so the Aro readily sold them as slaves to their Efik/Akpa brethren in the Calabar ports for sale to the Europeans, becoming very very rich and prosperous in the process.
They sold an estimated 3 to 5 million Igbo as slaves during this period.
Ironically, the OSU/OHU cannot be found at the Efik/Akpa/Ibibio communities of AROCHUKWU, ABIRIBA, EDDA and OHAFIA.
These aforenamed communities are also members of the secretive EKPE SECRET SOCIETY of which the head is the OBONG OF CALABAR.
The British ended the practice of selling OSU as slaves but the OSU were never fully assimilated into the Igbo society because of generations of stigma associated with them. They were said to be cursed by the deities and shrines under which protection they are so every Igbo diala viewed them as bad luck as no one wants to be the focus of attacks by the shrines who harbor them.
The Aro native doctor spiritual agents or dibias in local parlance also helped to procure a steady supply of Igbo slaves for Arochukwu by referring cases of disputes to the Ibini Ukpabi shrine of Chukwuokike abiama.
Whenever a case is brought to the shrine, the winner is set free but the loser was purportedly killed but were actually sold as slaves via a stream in the back channel of the cave where the Ibini Ukpabi juju is located. A red dye is poured into the river in place of blood but the loser was actually secretly transported through this stream to the cross river down to Calabar for sale to the Europeans.
During the British/ Aro wars, the British said they destroyed the Ibini Ukpabi shrine of Chukwuokike abiama but apparently it was not destroyed.
That same shrine of Ibini Ukpabi at Arochukwu of Chukwuokike abiama is the same shrine Nnamdi Kanu uses today to initiate Igbos into his cult group IPOB.
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by kettykin: 2:09pm On Jan 05, 2022
Utter bunkum

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by gidgiddy: 2:15pm On Jan 05, 2022
Chukwuokike abiama is the same shrine Nnamdi Kanu uses today to initiate Igbos into his cult group IPOB.

Chukwu okike abiama which literally translates as "God the most high creator"

Where was Nnamdi Kanu doing this initiating from? London? Radio Biafra? kuje Prison? Or DSS custody?

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by paramakina202: 2:17pm On Jan 05, 2022
[quote author=donborg post=109103273]
Aro are really not true Igbos. This is the reason why Igbo did not support the Aro during the British/ Aro wars of 1912. quote]

Was there any Igbo union in 1912?
Aro have their allies such as Abiriba, Ohafia, Edda and Abam etc...
They are still more Igbo than the fake Jews.
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by paramakina202: 2:20pm On Jan 05, 2022
gidgiddy:


Chukwu okike abiama which literally translates as "God the most high creator"

Chukwuokike Abiama originally is the god of Arochukwu which later became popular in other Igbo comunities through the Aros.
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by powerhouse3(m): 2:23pm On Jan 05, 2022
Observing..
..... Truly ,all those aforementioned place was Ibibio land ,when ever nsibidi is invoke ,..we mentioned all these place ,....and prosperity was even pronounce to the Abre iba(Abiriba)... even till date ,....but they are now part of Igbo and we Ibibio are at peace with that.....

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by donborg(m): 2:25pm On Jan 05, 2022
[quote author=paramakina202 post=109103555][/quote]

The Abiriba, Abam, Edda and Ohafia share the same Efik heritage with Arochukwu.

Whenever Arochukwu wanted to deal with any stubborn Igbo community, they called upon these people of these towns to deal with the community
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by donborg(m): 2:28pm On Jan 05, 2022
gidgiddy:


Chukwu okike abiama which literally translates as "God the most high creator"

Where was Nnamdi Kanu doing this initiating from? London? Radio Biafra? kuje Prison? Or DSS custody?


Whenever you want to join IPOB, you swear a solemn oath of secrecy and obedience to Chukwuokike abiama that if you betray IPOB, Chukwuokike abiama will deal with you
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by michelz: 2:32pm On Jan 05, 2022
Lol... This one na malaria-induced research.

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by BKayy: 2:33pm On Jan 05, 2022
So it has gotten to this level of dancing naked in the market to fight IPOB.

Geez, its like the level of gba gbos IPOB is dealing to Nigeria is highly underrated.

Just look at how Nigeria is messing up Aro peoples history because they want to fight IPOB.
Shameless

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by BKayy: 2:34pm On Jan 05, 2022
michelz:
Lol... This one na malaria-induced research.
IPOB don tear their blockos that they resulted to blackmailing

donborg:


The Abiriba, Abam, Edda and Ohafia share the same Efik heritage with Arochukwu.

Whenever Arochukwu wanted to deal with any stubborn Igbo community, they called upon these people of these towns to deal with the community
Just look at how foolish you sound just because you want to fight IPOB.
Bloody Parasites.

If you want to fight IPOB, challenge them like men not fire side gossips that you Nigerian weaklings are doing.

Messing up people's history on the Internet like cowards.

donborg:



Whenever you want to join IPOB, you swear a solemn oath of secrecy and obedience to Chukwuokike abiama that if you betray IPOB, Chukwuokike abiama will deal with you

See what I am talking about. Fight IPOB like men not Gossips.

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by Ogbuefi2020: 2:37pm On Jan 05, 2022
Aros are not of ibibio stock, however, Arochukwu was originally ibibio land. Ibibios were displaced by Aro Invaders who "descended from the Benue valley" and a remnent was absorbed

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by okeyglm: 2:38pm On Jan 05, 2022
donborg:

Aro are really not true Igbos. This is the reason why Igbo did not support the Aro during the British/ Aro wars of 1912. Before the war, the British had carried out a propaganda campaign to sensitize the Igbo of the nefarious activities of the Aro ibibio god Ibini Ukpabi and expose their clandestine wickedness to the Igbo who went to consult it.
Using various cunning tricks and divide and rule tactics, the Aro, originally Efiks from Calabar, sold more than 3 million Igbos into slavery without actually conquering Igbo land, with help from Abiriba, Ohafia and Edda brethren.
I have extensively studied and researched Aro history and found out that they have very little in common with Igbo except to pilfer us to be sold as slaves as we are a land locked people.
Arochukwu town was originally owned by the Ibibio and was called Obong okon ita and Ibom isii, before the coming of
an Igbo group from Abiriba led by Eze agwu.
With time, the Igbo group from Abiriba under Eze awgu and another from Edda called Nnachi ipia a native doctor fought a series of wars with the Ibibio King along with a faction of the Ibibio led by the half brother of the King prince Akpakpoko but were unsuccessful.
It is important to note however that the Igbo group from Abiriba and Edda were originally from Akpa or Akwa akpa the former local name of the present Duke town in Calabar. This means that they were not the Aborigines of Abiriba town but were Efiks as Akpa people are Efiks/Ekois.
When they could not defeat the Ibibio, the Nnachi ipia group called for Akpa King for help. The Akpa King then sent warriors led by Osim and Akuma Nnubi from Akwa akpa /Calabar who then had guns.
Armed with these guns, the Akpa warriors helped to defeat the Ibibios but Osim Nnubi together with the Ibibio prince Akpakpako were killed in the process.
After the war, Akuma Nnubi then became the new King of Arochukwu.
After his death the son of Nnachi apia, Oke Nnachi became King and his descendants have ruled Arochukwu till date.
Arochukwu then began to expand into the core Igbo area.
The Aro led by mgboko izuogo with help from their brothers at Abiriba, Ohafia, Edda and Abam utterly destroyed and annihilated the isuama aborigines of ikpa ora in imo state, resettling there and renamed it Aro ndi izuogu.
They did this same thing to numerous Igbo societies, setting up numerous Aro settlements and native doctor/dibia shrines through out Igbo land.
Whenever an Igbo runs to the shrine, they became an OSU to serve the deities for generations.
It is said that the Aro themselves also sent agents to cause mayhems in Igbo land so Igbo would run to the shrines for safety and protection. The shrines will then offer them protection by making them OSU, a slave of the shrine, together with his descendants.
These OSU were ostracized by Igbo people so the Aro readily sold them as slaves to their Efik/Akpa brethren in the Calabar ports for sale to the Europeans, becoming very very rich and prosperous in the process.
They sold an estimated 3 to 5 million Igbo as slaves during this period.
Ironically, the OSU/OHU cannot be found at the Efik/Akpa/Ibibio communities of AROCHUKWU, ABIRIBA, EDDA and OHAFIA.
These aforenamed communities are also members of the secretive EKPE SECRET SOCIETY of which the head is the OBONG OF CALABAR.
The British ended the practice of selling OSU as slaves but the OSU were never fully assimilated into the Igbo society because of generations of stigma associated with them. They were said to be cursed by the deities and shrines under which protection they are so every Igbo diala viewed them as bad luck as no one wants to be the focus of attacks by the shrines who harbor them.
The Aro native doctor spiritual agents or dibias in local parlance also helped to procure a steady supply of Igbo slaves for Arochukwu by referring cases of disputes to the Ibini Ukpabi shrine of Chukwuokike abiama.
Whenever a case is brought to the shrine, the winner is set free but the loser was purportedly killed but were actually sold as slaves via a stream in the back channel of the cave where the Ibini Ukpabi juju is located. A red dye is poured into the river in place of blood but the loser was actually secretly transported through this stream to the cross river down to Calabar for sale to the Europeans.
During the British/ Aro wars, the British said they destroyed the Ibini Ukpabi shrine of Chukwuokike abiama but apparently it was not destroyed.
That same shrine of Ibini Ukpabi at Arochukwu of Chukwuokike abiama is the same shrine Nnamdi Kanu uses today to initiate Igbos into his cult group IPOB.
in one way you described aro's as Igbo in other way you call them efik. confusion everywhere . effect of mkpuru miri at work.

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by gidgiddy: 2:38pm On Jan 05, 2022
donborg:



Whenever you want to join IPOB, you swear a solemn oath of secrecy and obedience to Chukwuokike abiama that if you betray IPOB, Chukwuokike abiama will deal with you

So?
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by gidgiddy: 2:39pm On Jan 05, 2022
paramakina202:


Chukwuokike Abiama originally is the god of Arochukwu which later became popular in other Igbo comunities through the Aros.

It still translates as "God the most high creator" and my priest in my catholic church uses it

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by BKayy: 2:40pm On Jan 05, 2022
[quote author=Ogbuefi2020 post=109104130][/quote]


Read the post. Its all about IPOB. They are not interested in history.
They are blackmailing IPOB.

I never knew IPOB was doing this much damage to Nigeria until now.

Please modify your comment. Don't help them drag unnecessary discord between us and our neighbours
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by Ogbuefi2020: 2:41pm On Jan 05, 2022
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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by Ogbuefi2020: 2:42pm On Jan 05, 2022
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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by BKayy: 2:45pm On Jan 05, 2022
gidgiddy:


It still translates as "God the most high creator" and my priest in my catholic church uses it
Read the post very well. It's not about history. They are just fighting IPOB with Blackmail.

The post is not about Aro or their history but Nnamdi Kanu.

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by paramakina202: 2:45pm On Jan 05, 2022
gidgiddy:


It still translates as "God the most high creator" and my priest in my catholic church uses it

Adopted by Igbo christians no doubt.Mind you northern and western Igbo uses Olisa more in place of Chukwu.
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by Akudaisi: 2:48pm On Jan 05, 2022
The confusion in your head this new year shouldn’t be treated with a kids glove.
You claim that they are Ibibio people yet,we see names like Nnachi,Akuma etc grin
Nawa oo

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by Danjikanbauchi: 3:52pm On Jan 05, 2022
kettykin:
Utter bunkum
the OP was talking bardadersh

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by IhateYouMan: 4:02pm On Jan 05, 2022
Origin of OP - Wikipedia grin grin grin grin

Shameless Plagiarising DUNCE !! grin grin grin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arochukwu
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by Ofodirinwa: 4:03pm On Jan 05, 2022
donborg:
[s]
Aro are really not true Igbos. This is the reason why Igbo did not support the Aro during the British/ Aro wars of 1912. Before the war, the British had carried out a propaganda campaign to sensitize the Igbo of the nefarious activities of the Aro ibibio god Ibini Ukpabi and expose their clandestine wickedness to the Igbo who went to consult it.
Using various cunning tricks and divide and rule tactics, the Aro, originally Efiks from Calabar, sold more than 3 million Igbos into slavery without actually conquering Igbo land, with help from Abiriba, Ohafia and Edda brethren.
I have extensively studied and researched Aro history and found out that they have very little in common with Igbo except to pilfer us to be sold as slaves as we are a land locked people.
Arochukwu town was originally owned by the Ibibio and was called Obong okon ita and Ibom isii, before the coming of
an Igbo group from Abiriba led by Eze agwu.
With time, the Igbo group from Abiriba under Eze awgu and another from Edda called Nnachi ipia a native doctor fought a series of wars with the Ibibio King along with a faction of the Ibibio led by the half brother of the King prince Akpakpoko but were unsuccessful.
It is important to note however that the Igbo group from Abiriba and Edda were originally from Akpa or Akwa akpa the former local name of the present Duke town in Calabar. This means that they were not the Aborigines of Abiriba town but were Efiks as Akpa people are Efiks/Ekois.
When they could not defeat the Ibibio, the Nnachi ipia group called for Akpa King for help. The Akpa King then sent warriors led by Osim and Akuma Nnubi from Akwa akpa /Calabar who then had guns.
Armed with these guns, the Akpa warriors helped to defeat the Ibibios but Osim Nnubi together with the Ibibio prince Akpakpako were killed in the process.
After the war, Akuma Nnubi then became the new King of Arochukwu.
After his death the son of Nnachi apia, Oke Nnachi became King and his descendants have ruled Arochukwu till date.
Arochukwu then began to expand into the core Igbo area.
The Aro led by mgboko izuogo with help from their brothers at Abiriba, Ohafia, Edda and Abam utterly destroyed and annihilated the isuama aborigines of ikpa ora in imo state, resettling there and renamed it Aro ndi izuogu.
They did this same thing to numerous Igbo societies, setting up numerous Aro settlements and native doctor/dibia shrines through out Igbo land.
Whenever an Igbo runs to the shrine, they became an OSU to serve the deities for generations.
It is said that the Aro themselves also sent agents to cause mayhems in Igbo land so Igbo would run to the shrines for safety and protection. The shrines will then offer them protection by making them OSU, a slave of the shrine, together with his descendants.
These OSU were ostracized by Igbo people so the Aro readily sold them as slaves to their Efik/Akpa brethren in the Calabar ports for sale to the Europeans, becoming very very rich and prosperous in the process.
They sold an estimated 3 to 5 million Igbo as slaves during this period.
Ironically, the OSU/OHU cannot be found at the Efik/Akpa/Ibibio communities of AROCHUKWU, ABIRIBA, EDDA and OHAFIA.
These aforenamed communities are also members of the secretive EKPE SECRET SOCIETY of which the head is the OBONG OF CALABAR.
The British ended the practice of selling OSU as slaves but the OSU were never fully assimilated into the Igbo society because of generations of stigma associated with them. They were said to be cursed by the deities and shrines under which protection they are so every Igbo diala viewed them as bad luck as no one wants to be the focus of attacks by the shrines who harbor them.
The Aro native doctor spiritual agents or dibias in local parlance also helped to procure a steady supply of Igbo slaves for Arochukwu by referring cases of disputes to the Ibini Ukpabi shrine of Chukwuokike abiama.
Whenever a case is brought to the shrine, the winner is set free but the loser was purportedly killed but were actually sold as slaves via a stream in the back channel of the cave where the Ibini Ukpabi juju is located. A red dye is poured into the river in place of blood but the loser was actually secretly transported through this stream to the cross river down to Calabar for sale to the Europeans.
During the British/ Aro wars, the British said they destroyed the Ibini Ukpabi shrine of Chukwuokike abiama but apparently it was not destroyed.
That same shrine of Ibini Ukpabi at Arochukwu of Chukwuokike abiama is the same shrine Nnamdi Kanu uses today to initiate Igbos into his cult group IPOB.[/s]

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by BKayy: 4:04pm On Jan 05, 2022
IhateYouMan:
Origin of OP - Wikipedia grin grin grin grin

Shameless Plagiarising DUNCE !! grin grin grin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arochukwu
You guys should read something carefully before diving in.
The OP is not interested in Arochukwu history but IPOB.

Read to the last line. The thread is another thread for Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB

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Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by donborg(m): 4:51pm On Jan 05, 2022
Akudaisi:
The confusion in your head this new year shouldn’t be treated with a kids glove.
You claim that they are Ibibio people yet,we see names like Nnachi,Akuma etc grin
Nawa oo

You are confused.

Does an Igbo man living in the North and answering Hausa names make him Hausa?

Get wise you Igbos!

Someone sold 3 million of you as slaves amidst a reign of terror yet you call them Igbo just because they answer Igbo names

I wu ezigbo onuku!!!!
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by donborg(m): 4:56pm On Jan 05, 2022
okeyglm:
in one way you described aro's as Igbo in other way you call them efik. confusion everywhere . effect of mkpuru miri at work.

Aros are Efiks answering Igbo names and speaking Igbo language to enable them infiltrate Igbo land and get slaves for sale.

They even renamed their shrine called Ibini Ukpabi to CHUKWUOKIKE ABIAMA so as to lure unsuspecting Igbos to seek solutions to their problems and get sold as slaves.
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by Nobody: 5:13pm On Jan 05, 2022
paramakina202:


Chukwuokike Abiama originally is the god of Arochukwu which later became popular in other Igbo comunities through the Aros.
Never knew Chukwu okike abiama is a god o shocked
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by Hotice085: 5:15pm On Jan 05, 2022
donborg:

Aro are really not true Igbos. This is the reason why Igbo did not support the Aro during the British/ Aro wars of 1912. Before the war, the British had carried out a propaganda campaign to sensitize the Igbo of the nefarious activities of the Aro ibibio god Ibini Ukpabi and expose their clandestine wickedness to the Igbo who went to consult it.
Using various cunning tricks and divide and rule tactics, the Aro, originally Efiks from Calabar, sold more than 3 million Igbos into slavery without actually conquering Igbo land, with help from Abiriba, Ohafia and Edda brethren.
I have extensively studied and researched Aro history and found out that they have very little in common with Igbo except to pilfer us to be sold as slaves as we are a land locked people.
Arochukwu town was originally owned by the Ibibio and was called Obong okon ita and Ibom isii, before the coming of
an Igbo group from Abiriba led by Eze agwu.
With time, the Igbo group from Abiriba under Eze awgu and another from Edda called Nnachi ipia a native doctor fought a series of wars with the Ibibio King along with a faction of the Ibibio led by the half brother of the King prince Akpakpoko but were unsuccessful.
It is important to note however that the Igbo group from Abiriba and Edda were originally from Akpa or Akwa akpa the former local name of the present Duke town in Calabar. This means that they were not the Aborigines of Abiriba town but were Efiks as Akpa people are Efiks/Ekois.
When they could not defeat the Ibibio, the Nnachi ipia group called for Akpa King for help. The Akpa King then sent warriors led by Osim and Akuma Nnubi from Akwa akpa /Calabar who then had guns.
Armed with these guns, the Akpa warriors helped to defeat the Ibibios but Osim Nnubi together with the Ibibio prince Akpakpako were killed in the process.
After the war, Akuma Nnubi then became the new King of Arochukwu.
After his death the son of Nnachi apia, Oke Nnachi became King and his descendants have ruled Arochukwu till date.
Arochukwu then began to expand into the core Igbo area.
The Aro led by mgboko izuogo with help from their brothers at Abiriba, Ohafia, Edda and Abam utterly destroyed and annihilated the isuama aborigines of ikpa ora in imo state, resettling there and renamed it Aro ndi izuogu.
They did this same thing to numerous Igbo societies, setting up numerous Aro settlements and native doctor/dibia shrines through out Igbo land.
Whenever an Igbo runs to the shrine, they became an OSU to serve the deities for generations.
It is said that the Aro themselves also sent agents to cause mayhems in Igbo land so Igbo would run to the shrines for safety and protection. The shrines will then offer them protection by making them OSU, a slave of the shrine, together with his descendants.
These OSU were ostracized by Igbo people so the Aro readily sold them as slaves to their Efik/Akpa brethren in the Calabar ports for sale to the Europeans, becoming very very rich and prosperous in the process.
They sold an estimated 3 to 5 million Igbo as slaves during this period.
Ironically, the OSU/OHU cannot be found at the Efik/Akpa/Ibibio communities of AROCHUKWU, ABIRIBA, EDDA and OHAFIA.
These aforenamed communities are also members of the secretive EKPE SECRET SOCIETY of which the head is the OBONG OF CALABAR.
The British ended the practice of selling OSU as slaves but the OSU were never fully assimilated into the Igbo society because of generations of stigma associated with them. They were said to be cursed by the deities and shrines under which protection they are so every Igbo diala viewed them as bad luck as no one wants to be the focus of attacks by the shrines who harbor them.
The Aro native doctor spiritual agents or dibias in local parlance also helped to procure a steady supply of Igbo slaves for Arochukwu by referring cases of disputes to the Ibini Ukpabi shrine of Chukwuokike abiama.
Whenever a case is brought to the shrine, the winner is set free but the loser was purportedly killed but were actually sold as slaves via a stream in the back channel of the cave where the Ibini Ukpabi juju is located. A red dye is poured into the river in place of blood but the loser was actually secretly transported through this stream to the cross river down to Calabar for sale to the Europeans.
During the British/ Aro wars, the British said they destroyed the Ibini Ukpabi shrine of Chukwuokike abiama but apparently it was not destroyed.
That same shrine of Ibini Ukpabi at Arochukwu of Chukwuokike abiama is the same shrine Nnamdi Kanu uses today to initiate Igbos into his cult group IPOB.
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By religious and ritual links we mean those provided by the Ibini Ukpabi oracle of the Aro, an institution known in many Cross River communities, especially among the Efik-Ibibio, as Ibritam. The Ibini Ukpabi itself was a typical product of the contact situation existing between the Igbo and the Ibibio. According to its social charter it was, in the beginning, a local god of an Ibibio group. Then it was captured by the Igbo slaves of this Ibibio group, who successfully rebelled against their servile status and sought to turn the table on their masters, who chose instead to flee the region. Under the control of these erstwhile Igbo slaves, the Ibini Ukpabi grew in influence to become, according to one authority, the most powerful oracle in West Africa by the nineteenth century.

Nigerian history, politics and affairs, Adiele Afigbo.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ez58Dwpa8JcC&pg=PA137
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by Nobody: 5:17pm On Jan 05, 2022
donborg:


Aros are Efiks answering Igbo names and speaking Igbo language to enable them infiltrate Igbo land and get slaves for sale.

They even renamed their shrine called Ibini Ukpabi to CHUKWUOKIKE ABIAMA so as to lure unsuspecting Igbos to seek solutions to their problems and get sold as slaves
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So there is Efik land in the South East

Wahala
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by paramakina202: 5:36pm On Jan 05, 2022
DubaiLandLord:
Never knew Chukwu okike abiama is a god o shocked

How do you mean?
Did you think it a person before?
Re: True Origin Of The Aro. Summary Of Aro History And Osu by donborg(m): 5:38pm On Jan 05, 2022
Hotice085:
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By religious and ritual links we mean those provided by the Ibini Ukpabi oracle of the Aro, an institution known in many Cross River communities, especially among the Efik-Ibibio, as Ibritam. The Ibini Ukpabi itself was a typical product of the contact situation existing between the Igbo and the Ibibio. According to its social charter it was, in the beginning, a local god of an Ibibio group. Then it was captured by the Igbo slaves of this Ibibio group, who successfully rebelled against their servile status and sought to turn the table on their masters, who chose instead to flee the region. Under the control of these erstwhile Igbo slaves, the Ibini Ukpabi grew in influence to become, according to one authority, the most powerful oracle in West Africa by the nineteenth century.

Nigerian history, politics and affairs, Adiele Afigbo.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ez58Dwpa8JcC&pg=PA137

The Igbo group were from Akpa which is Calabar.
Were the Calabar slaves of the Ibibios?

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