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Re: Urhobos Have No Bond With Biafra – Urhobo Union President by Markfemi: 9:39am On Aug 02, 2017
fratermathy:


You don't seem to get it. These rebuttals are coming from different interest groups in Urhobo nation, not a single one. Just the way you guys have various persons and groups agitating for Biafra, so too do we have various persons and groups coming out to negate Urhobo's inclusion in it. In fact, whether or not IPOB or Kanu included Urhobo in Biafra, it is always important to set the records straight for the sake of posterity. We have the inalienable right to deny whatever we want, even if we choose to do so every blessed day. Just the way you guys have the right to agitate for your Igboid Biafra everyday too.

Urhobos are not trouble makers. If some unscrupulous persons didn't create the impressions, drew the maps, or outrightly included us in Biafra, we wouldn't have the moral justification for these rebuttals. And until such a time when the records are set straight by IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu or other Biafran interest groups, we would always have the more justification to keep coming at you guys like this. Any Urhobo can come up and leverage on the fact that it was you guys or one of yours that included Urhobo into your struggle in order to give a rebuttal. No one can stop such person(s) from doing so.


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Re: Urhobos Have No Bond With Biafra – Urhobo Union President by Markfemi: 9:40am On Aug 02, 2017
hammerF:


Urhobo the champion goal post shifters and attention seekers.

We have groups as far as Kaduna accepted in Biafra.

[s]Yoruba are gaming to join which they eventually will end up in Biafra[/s].

We have ardent Edo Biafra supporters all over the internet.

Urhobo are busy generating hate against the igbos.

Igbos dont forget anything.
Re: Urhobos Have No Bond With Biafra – Urhobo Union President by pazienza(m): 10:08am On Aug 02, 2017
lots have been said about my community ofoni but let me drop the facts the way they really are.

it is true that ofoni is part of tarakiri clan in sagbama which makes it an ijaw settlement only wonder is that the ofoni people speak urhobo. ofoni is part of tarakiri clan because they are sons of tarakiri just like the other ijaw communities under the clan. what make the ofoni people to speak urhobo instead of ijaw is because their father tarakiri had them through an urhobo princess. she taught her children the urhobo language. after the death of tarakiri, the children went and settled at various locations and so did ofoni. urhobo as a language became more engraved in these sons of tarakiri after their mother warned then not to marry ijaw women oweing to maltreatment she received from the other wives of tarakiri..so for many years the children married outside ijaw and mainly urhobo women and urhobo as a language became part of them..

Today, ofoni is classified as an ijaw community by birthright and that is why it is under the tarakiri clan. the urhobo they speak is just a means of communication and doesnt deprive them of their birthright though they also enjoy some royalties from ughele which is their mothers home.

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Re: Urhobos Have No Bond With Biafra – Urhobo Union President by pazienza(m): 10:09am On Aug 02, 2017
"lots have been said about my community ofoni but let me drop the facts the way they really are.

it is true that ofoni is part of tarakiri clan in sagbama which makes it an ijaw settlement only wonder is that the ofoni people speak urhobo. ofoni is part of tarakiri clan because they are sons of tarakiri just like the other ijaw communities under the clan. what make the ofoni people to speak urhobo instead of ijaw is because their father tarakiri had them through an urhobo princess. she taught her children the urhobo language. after the death of tarakiri, the children went and settled at various locations and so did ofoni. urhobo as a language became more engraved in these sons of tarakiri after their mother warned then not to marry ijaw women oweing to maltreatment she received from the other wives of tarakiri..so for many years the children married outside ijaw and mainly urhobo women and urhobo as a language became part of them..

Today, ofoni is classified as an ijaw community by birthright and that is why it is under the tarakiri clan. the urhobo they speak is just a means of communication and doesnt deprive them of their birthright though they also enjoy some royalties from ughele which is their mothers home".

https://www.nairaland.com/3898626/group-faults-urhobo-inclusion-biafra/12#up

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Re: Urhobos Have No Bond With Biafra – Urhobo Union President by pazienza(m): 10:16am On Aug 02, 2017
Sanchez01:

Sometimes I'm compelled to ask what you people sniff before coming online. Ofoni speak the Ughelli dialect and remains the second largest community in Bayelsa.

Like Efe mentioned, a tiny fraction of Orogun were influenced by the Ukwuani dialect but this is not to say that Orogun as a people are Igbo.

In no distant time, you guys would lay claim to Southern Kaduna.

Stop being dense. Ofoni are Ijaws that now speak Urhobo because their ancestors married too many Urhobo wives, who taught their children Urhobo.

Ofoni are not the only Ijaw clan that speak Urhobo, even Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark 's town, Kiagbodo, is an Urhobo speaking Ijaw town.

No, it wasn't a tiny fraction of Orogun that was influenced by Ukwuani, a great number was affected, so much that the Orogun leader is known as "Okpara ", clearly an Igbo term for first son. Yet Igbos are not claiming Orogun.

Stop claiming Ofoni, you know your Ijaw neighbors won't take this your encroachment and annexation plans lightly, let sleeping dogs lie.

I had in my last post quoted a post by an Ofoni indigene on NL about this Ofoni Ijaw affiliation matter.

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