So the killings were a form of sacrifice to their god

PAGAN 9JA:
Ombatse, which means “time has come”, and which practitioners claim is a traditional religion handed to man from heaven, is a mysticism which seeks to cleans
society of sundry ills, including adultery, fornication, public theft, drunkenness, smoking, envy, killing; to pave the way for the culture of morality and chastity.

The spiritual practice which was hitherto silent, and spoken about only at whisper level, recently became bold among the people, with its leaders claiming that
heightening societal ills have provoked them into a crusade in the hope to cleanse the land.

Its day is Saturday, according to the practitioners, who have said on such days, new members are initiated, and oaths are administered to converts to cleans
them of their sins. But women are never allowed near Alogani Centre, a popular initiation area in Nasarawa-Eggon, during the cleansing ceremony, except
unmarried teenagers who are believed to be pure from fornication.

Young male converts wear black dresses and caps to match, and proud themselves as possessing native bullet proof to protect them against gun bullets.


FINALLY WE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! THE TIME HAS COME! GLAD TO SEE MY EGGON BROTHERS & SISTERS PROSELYTISING AND RECONVERTING INDIVIDUALS TO TRADITIONAL RELIGION!

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solopumpy227: These are signs of systemic breakdown from the very TOP to the BOTTOM. We need a renegotiation of this union or[b]a revolution.[/b]
But this expose does not any anyway put culpability on the State Governor so why are some people trying hard to blaim the Governor/ Fulani for this particular incident.

Give it a rest! A revolution in Nigeria will leave it in a worse State than Liberia, it will do nothing but breed Anarchy. Look at all the Road blocks that were formed during Occupy Nigeria, just for the purpose of robbing People.

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PAGAN 9JA:
FINALLY WE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! THE TIME HAS COME! GLAD TO SEE MY EGGON BROTHERS & SISTERS PROSELYTISING AND RECONVERTING INDIVIDUALS TO TRADITIONAL RELIGION!

Word has it this 'reconverting' you speak of is being done forcefully in some cases. Do you have any views on this, brethren? Assuming the account provided below holds true, are you in support of coercion?

Full disclosure: I am fairly amenable to the idea of home-grown deities by the way

Widows of the slain officers were still in Government House, when the two suspected cops were taken there. They expressed shock with the quantum of assorted charms they saw.

Operatives of the police, SSS and Civil Defence were ambushed at the Alakyo village, on the outskirt f Lafia, the state capital, on the night of Tuesday when they stormed the village to raid a shrine of the notorious traditional religion, CP Akeremale had said on Wednesday. He said the decision to go on the operation was taken at the State Security Council meeting, earlier on Tuesday afternoon, after allegations that Ombatse members were carrying out forced initiation of Eggon males, continued to widen in the state.

A police inspector of Eggon origin, who resides in Alakyo, was one of the recent persons forced into initiation, by Ombatse, the police boss also said. A young man has also approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Lafia, to formerly complain that he was tortured and compelled by persons he suspected to be Ombatse, to swear to an oath of allegiance to the deity, hours after his Muslim marriage in Lafia.

But the leader of the Eggon people, Chris Mamman, who confirmed he heard of the forced initiation of people of Eggon decent into the traditional religion, denied that Ombatse people had hands in the development.
Mamman, the National President of Eggon Cultural Association (ECDA), blamed the forced initiation on the activities of criminal elements, using Ombatse to extort other Eggon people.

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eGuerrilla:

Word has it this 'reconverting' you speak of is being done forcefully in some cases. Do you have any views on this, brethren? Assuming the account provided below holds true, are you in support of coercion?



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I personally dont think this is true because traditionalists rarely if ever resort to such means.

if its true, as the name of the religion says, people are tired. they want to get it done anyway.

I mean if its true, its sort of like tit for tat. some of The EGGON were anyways forcefully converted to islam by the Fulani herdsman of the likes of dan fodio and co. even now the Fulani are forcefully converting in Nasarawa and Adamawa.

eGuerrilla:

Full disclosure: I am fairly amenable to the idea of home-grown deities by the way

My Nass Eggon Guys. Casnboh!!! So they used ayeta on the police, according to the explanation here, the bullet yeta back to the police officers shooting sporadically

♪♫ Cashbo le juma le le, Eh Eh! x2
A susa mata x2 ♫♪♫

Nass Eggon!!

Nigeria security agent go force in wrong way this is not frost time,there is no jungle justice police SUffer in Azhilis spiritual chai

THIS THREAD SHOULD BE CLOSED. THE INTERVIEW WAS FROM LAST YEAR.

Wow, can't believe someone here still believes whatever Nigerian police spills.....

eGuerrilla:

Word has it this 'reconverting' you speak of is being done forcefully in some cases. Do you have any views on this, brethren? Assuming the account provided below holds true, are you in support of coercion?

Full disclosure: I am fairly amenable to the idea of home-grown deities by the way



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DanIlon: Nigeria security agent go force in wrong way this is not frost time,there is no jungle justice police SUffer in Azhilis spiritual chai

nigeria army gas to learn lesson don't make second BAGA massacre may happen can kill hundred soldier by unknow spiritualist

vandarsar: Wow, can't believe someone here still believes whatever Nigerian police spills.....

I know our educational standards have fallen far, so perhaps it only right that I excuse your obvious lack of comprehension here.

Assuming the account provided below holds true, are you in support of coercion?

emmysenior:

It is because we threw away our root.
The Chinese, Japanese, etc still practise their religion of the old and they are moving forward. What have you got to say about that?

The mentality of an african is his greatest problem. We abandoned our culture & traditions to embrace foreign religions we cannot practice. For us to develop, we must go back to our roots.

Wat is d need of all dis interview,I expect d jtf to raze dat shrine to d ground n deal mercileesly with their so called leader n his militia boys,dos deaths must b avenged

Story, story! Tori

[color=#990000][/color] This guy is just political! Your religion doesn't support violence ?? How come the security operatives died ? Shell casings shud confirm if the security guys came shooting sporadically, moreso, why didn't your 'priest' just surrender and display the peace u preach... Did u say u were a catholic and traditionalist?? So double standarded!!!

Dhelake: abegi .... There ar traditionalists in china ... Are they not progressing??

Yes, there are traditionalists in china but they don't go around forcing people to drink one stupid concotion or behaving like they are mightier than the law or killing policemen. Come to think of it, this is how bokoharam started. The north really has a lot of rubbish amont it.

^^^^^^ The tradionalists in China are nor brutalized and their shrines destroyed and they be molested or converted.

this is why CHinese traditionalists dont do such things.

but Nigeria is a diffrent matter.


people are just plain evil to the true indigenes and religions of this land.

Get d facts right my people:
1. Eggon people have been attacked and killed continuously by the Fulanis' with d Governor doing nothing about it.
2. The Governor is sympathetic towards d Hausa/Fulanis' to d extent of harboring them in his village which serves as a launch pad for attack on the Eggon people.
3. The Governor feels threatened 'cos d people are tired of being ruled by strangers(Hausa/Fulanis) and thus resolved to hv their own true sons at the helms of affair by 2015
4. So as to stop dis the Governor feels that the best option is to silence them thru d use of mercenaries(Fulanis/Chadians&Nigeriens) and also d state apparatus(police&SSS) which could have led 2 a genocide thus silencing them 4ever.
5. Having realised that his(Governor) plans had failed; he rushed to Abuja in order to seek d sympathy of the presidency thru d vice-president who is an Hausa/Fulani by blackmailing d Eggon; falsely accusing Ombatse of forced initiation of Muslims and “Christians”so as to compel full military intervention thus finally achieving is evil plan.
6. Remember Eggon people remain d majority in Nassarawa and most of them are not Muslims or Hausa/Fulani.
7. I don't know wat the Governor is still doing in power; he should have been removed by now.
8. Goodluck must resist being used by that bloody bastard called Al-Makura 2 cause a Genocide by authorizing full military operation.
9. What has the Governor and those in authority done about previous attack on Eggon settlements by Fulani marauders?
10. In conclusion everybody has right to existence and protection of that sacred entity called "life". The Eggon people have literally lost confidence in Government and the state security apparatus as a whole thereby putting their existence on the brink of being erased thus d best option is self-defence which is what any right thinking individual/people would have done.

ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY ARE DIVIDING OUR TRIBES ALONG RELIGOUS LINES! WE MUST PUT A STOP TO THIS! WE MUST SAVE OUR TRIBES FROM DESTRUCTION!

The song imagine was right.Religion is still a fundamental problem in nigeria.I'm speechless.cult,prayer group,radical groups,militia,terrorist,it just gets harder everyday.hmmm.our case in nigeria needs Supreme Amendment from the. Powers that holds the earth.

Let's be frank with ourselves,when are we as a nation going to be rid of all this problems left right and centre.it gets harder everyday.

This is not even the first time they are attacking the shrine..... The first one no teach una lesson?..... And for some wey dey ginger Army go and do this and that, so if u be Army officer u go gree go there? No die u wan go die join?

Tolexander: will be glad to point to me where the date of the interview was specified!

.... Check the link under the post and read the alphabets therein carefully u wil surly see 2012/12

am seriously crying for my country. so sad.

Dis was hurriedly brought hia.. This interview doesn't tally with what has jst happend.. Seems lk an old interview. U guys shld hv simply titled it" the remote and immediate causes of the Ombatse killings" the Geneis.

they steal in billions and trillions while the majority of the masses suffer - all because they know that taking an oat in the name of Allah (Koran) and in the name of Jesus (Bible) simply means "your sins are forgiven even before you commit it - therefore go home and enjoy your loot in peace - just make sure you make huge donations in construction of mosque and churches!"

If Nigerians really want this county to be good withing 4 years, let the politicians be made to swear by our traditional gods! Agballa! Aro! Ogun!Shango! Obatala!Olokun! Azhili! and various other powerful traditional gods in Nigeria - corruption and looting will disappear from our mist!

May God help us all.....

The Eggons are fighting for d soul of their state. In fact they are fighting for their independence from Hausa / fulani haegonomy. Just like d Beroms in Plateau who are in control of their own destiny d Eggons are fighting hard to dislodge d likes of Al- makura from d corridors of power foreever and i stand with them for their emanicipation. Afterall democracy is a game of numbers, if they are d majority in d state, common sense dictates they should be d ones controlling d affairs of d state.

No 1, Majority of the people from that part of Nassarawa State are Christian! If this should happen in Kebbi State, eeh. That's all.

funshint: Get d facts right my people:
1. Eggon people have been attacked and killed continuously by the Fulanis' with d Governor doing nothing about it.
2. The Governor is sympathetic towards d Hausa/Fulanis' to d extent of harboring them in his village which serves as a launch pad for attack on the Eggon people.
3. The Governor feels threatened 'cos d people are tired of being ruled by strangers(Hausa/Fulanis) and thus resolved to hv their own true sons at the helms of affair by 2015
4. So as to stop dis the Governor feels that the best option is to silence them thru d use of mercenaries(Fulanis/Chadians&Nigeriens) and also d state apparatus(police&SSS) which could have led 2 a genocide thus silencing them 4ever.
5. Having realised that his(Governor) plans had failed; he rushed to Abuja in order to seek d sympathy of the presidency thru d vice-president who is an Hausa/Fulani by blackmailing d Eggon; falsely accusing Ombatse of forced initiation of Muslims and “Christians”so as to compel full military intervention thus finally achieving is evil plan.
6. Remember Eggon people remain d majority in Nassarawa and most of them are not Muslims or Hausa/Fulani.
7. I don't know wat the Governor is still doing in power; he should have been removed by now.
8. Goodluck must resist being used by that bloody bastard called Al-Makura 2 cause a Genocide by authorizing full military operation.
9. What has the Governor and those in authority done about previous attack on Eggon settlements by Fulani marauders?
10. In conclusion everybody has right to existence and protection of that sacred entity called "life". The Eggon people have literally lost confidence in Government and the state security apparatus as a whole thereby putting their existence on the brink of being erased thus d best option is self-defence which is what any right thinking individual/people would have done.

No sense in this