waledeji:


Your own emotion is so high that you see everyone that has a contrary opinions to yours on Nairaland as yorubas.

Ignorant lot

TonyeBarcanista:

Is there any traditional ruler in "PHC" known as PH Monarch? Am I missing something?


Lol Hargrove guy an "Okrika man"? You mean the British through Lord Lugard signed Agreement with Okrika/Ikwerre people and later Okrika on behalf of Okrika? Or what are you saying Oga.

PHC has a monarch ,Eze apara rebisi.
Your topic claims that ikwerre lost PH to Okirika, so I was wondering whether Mr Hargrove was an Okirika and therefore made the purchase on behalf of the Okirika people.
All those court cases are nonsense because I don't see how you expect the natives to get justice from the court of his white oppressor.



Those days, treaties are signed with landowners not strangers... No wonder Ikwerre lost ALL cases in 4 courts...

TonyeBarcanista:
I posted this here for people to understand about PHC and who signed the Agreement. It is very clear that Ikwerre lost all case they instituee
They went to court to upturn the Hangroove Agreement but lost

They went to Appeal Court but lost

They went to Supreme Court same result...

They went to African Court and was compensated with annual payment.

In the Appeal they claimed that all territories regarding PHC are Ikwerre but lost all.

Though the Ijaws (Okrika) have legal backing we still believe in brotherhood and oneness.


This piece was not written by me, it was published by http://www.citypeopleonline.com/ikwerre-people-rivers-lost-port-harcourt-okrika-people/



God bless Rivers state

[written by: City People Port Harcourt Bureau Chief, EMEKA AMAEFULA

I don't respond to ignorant trolls


Happy Reading

cumbak60:
Where is HopeAtHand.... this thread needs your urgent attention.

TonyeBarcanista:

Is there any traditional ruler in "PHC" known as PH Monarch? Am I missing something?


Lol Hargrove guy an "Okrika man"? You mean the British through Lord Lugard signed Agreement with Okrika/Ikwerre people and later Okrika on behalf of Okrika? Or what are you saying Oga.



Those days, treaties are signed with landowners not strangers... No wonder Ikwerre lost ALL cases in 4 courts...

Ogbum- Nu-Abali Diobu, Okrika, Omokoroshi, Omo Eme, Omo Amasi,Oguniba and later Awafa and Bakana.

HopeAtHand:
@Tonyebarcanista, alot of things went wrong with the british. Research has shown that they were at times very hasty in arriving at conclusions.

Port harcourt, the entire Port harcourt including Borokiri, amadi-ama and abuloma etc are the lands and grounds of the Ikwerre people. History is on our side. Okrikans and Ikwerres arent of the same ethnic stock to inhabit the same area. Rivers are a natural boundary and Okrika is separated from PH by bonny river.

The day Okrika cease to be a part of Rivers, like when Riverines clamoured for their own state, let us see if they can take an inch of port harcourt LGA.

Okrikans

WHAT THE IKWERRE PEOPLE TOLD WEST AFRICAN COURT OF APPEAL IN 1949 THEIR ALLEGATIONS AGAINST BRITISH COLONIAL GOVERNMENT

You may not believe this on the Appeal case No. 8 of 1953 it was recorded that in 1949 the representatives of the people and successors of the chiefs and Headsmen of Abali and Ogbum of Diobu , Chief Joseph Wobo, Chief Wali Wokekoro, Chief Samuel Atako, Philip Chinwa, Brown Agumagu, Victor Amadi, Appolos Amadi, Amadi Wanodi, Amadi Opara and Wobo Chara as plaintiffs sued Attorney General



For the federation of Nigeria and the Attorney-General for the Eastern Region of Nigeria who were substituted for the Attorney General of Nigeria as defendants. Their allegations are s found in their Statement of claims thus “Up to the year 1911 they and their ancestors had lived as lawful owners in the area now known as Port Harcourt, and then known as Obomotu. In 1911 their predecessors in title had granted a resting place at Obomotu to an Englishman named Harcourt, in 1913 the Deputy Governor of the colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria sought to buy Obomotu from Diobu people; the people refused to ell, but allowed a portion for settlement.



By an agreement dated the 18th May, 1913 between the Deputy Governor and representatives of Diobu and other villages, the Deputy Governor purported to buy Obomotu from the Diobu people for 2,000 (Two Thousand British Pounds) the people refused to sell or to accept the money, and continued so to refuse until October , 1927. In 1925 in an attempt to persuade the Diobu chiefs to sell Obomotu, the Government offered to put up storey buildings for them. The chiefs refused, and opposed any extension of the town boundary beyond No. 1 railway gate.



In 1927 the Government appointed one Captain Cooke to arbitrate between them and the Diobu people. The arbitrator defined the boundaries of Port Harcourt , but failed to persuade the Appellants’ ancestors to extend the town boundary beyond No.1 railway gate. In 1913 the Appellants’ ancestors had refused to take annual grant of five hundred British pounds unless an undertaking were given that the boundary would not be extended and the town would not be sold to any Europeans.



The arbitrator assured the Appellants’ ancestors that arrears of this grant up to 1927 would be paid as compensation for damage done to crops, et.c by the Government , and they would receive rent for the land of One Thousand five Hundred Pounds per annum; on this assurance they received the arrears of Seven thousand Five Hundred Pounds in October, 1927. In February 1928 the Acting Resident Acknowledged in a letter written to a third party, that the land outside No. 1 railway gate was Diobu land.



By an Agreement dated 2nd May 1928, supplementary to the agreement of 1913, six chiefs and two Headmen, all of them illiterate, purported to sell Diobu land to the Governor for Seven thousand Five Hundred Pounds down and an annual payment of Five Hundred Pounds. The purchase money of Seven Thousand Five Hundred Pounds was not paid and, if the chiefs and Headmen purported to enter into the agreement was invalid because the parties were not ”ad idem”. From 1928 to 1930 the Appellants received annually Five Hundred Pounds on account of the One thousand Five Hundred Pounds recommended by the arbitrator.



Since the balance was not paid they refused to accept any payment in 1931, until the Governor persuaded them to accept Five Hundred Pounds for the time being, saying this would not affect their claim against the Government. Thereafter the Government had trespassed on Diobu land by extending the Town boundary beyond No. 1 railway gate. Appellants, in spite of their complaints and representations had been served with notices to quit their homes”.



The Ikwerres in their Appeal asked for a declaration that they are the real owners of all the land known as Port Harcourt and Thirty thousand pounds compensation and damages for trespass that twenty three thousand Pounds being arrears from 1928 of annual rent of One thousand five Hundred Pounds and cancellation of all alleged agreement purporting to transfer the rights of the Abali and Ogbum Diobu over their lands, in that the parties were not “ad idem” and that is to say that those who signed the 1913 and 1928 agreements were illiterates.

kingdompropty:
Every such arrangement have a tenure which is usually 100years.

The Ikwerres in their Appeal asked for a declaration that they are the real owners of all the land known as Port Harcourt a

HopeAtHand:
@Tonyebarcanista, I know the antecedents of the british. Setting confusion as means of achieving an aim is usually employed by them as strategy, Ikwerre chiefs werent interested in making them have their way, they went and included Okrika chiefs in something that doesnt concern Okrika people. Typical british cunning.

In earnest i did not read that hargroove agreement, i only skimmed thru. But i know that Okrika like other riverines do not have land and therefore cannot give out what they dont have. Ijaw is not synonymous with land.

TonyeBarcanista:
Ekinematics have you heard of Hargrove Agreement before?

NB This piece was written by: City People Port Harcourt Bureau Chief, EMEKA AMAEFULA

Prinzyy:
i am sure you know he's your kinsmen ,thats una job,where are orthers like ngeneukwenu,omenka,obiagelli,eziokwu1,okijajuju1,madcow1,bacanista and berem, beremx. they are all ya kinsmen.You guys need job .

Ekinematics:



Sure.

TonyeBarcanista:

IPOD Yoots don't even know about Hargrove Agreement of 1913 yet they are talking PHC (lol)... These guys are daft

TonyeBarcanista:

I'm not surprised cos Ijaws are well-read. HopeAtHand that has been shouting on NL is seeing the Agreement for the FIRST time. As for IPOD Yoots, they are stunned as they have no idea of PHC apart from what Kanu told them on Radio Biafra

Abagworo:


Ogbunabali, Okrika, Diobu, Rumuokwurusi, Rumueme, Rumuomasi, Oginigba, Iwofe and Bakana.

Bakana just 10 plots of land at Eagle Island and Okrika just the Creek road market and Borokiri then later Abuloma, Fimie, Okujagu, Okuru, Amadi etc. 99% was Ikwerre and 99% still Ikwerre land.

TonyeBarcanista:

Is there any traditional ruler in "PHC" known as PH Monarch? Am I missing something?


Lol Hargrove guy an "Okrika man"? You mean the British through Lord Lugard signed Agreement with Okrika/Ikwerre people and later Okrika on behalf of Okrika? Or what are you saying Oga.



Those days, treaties are signed with landowners not strangers... No wonder Ikwerre lost ALL cases in 4 courts...

Abagworo:


Ogbunabali, Okrika, Diobu, Rumuokwurusi, Rumueme, Rumuomasi, Oginigba, Iwofe and Bakana.

Bakana just 10 plots of land at Eagle Island and Okrika just the Creek road market and Borokiri then later Abuloma, Fimie, Okujagu, Okuru, Amadi etc. 99% was Ikwerre and 99% still Ikwerre land.

nextdoor84:


Just like you lost the ones in Opobo but your silly a$$ tribesmen still lay claim there today!!
I told you already..the earlier you realize PH is not yours the better for you!!

To solve this issue is as simple as ABC...we are already working on it..we shall shock you soon!!
Hint: Oil Rivers

Ogbuefi2020:
And by the way, a city being built in your land doesn't mean shyte, Abuja is owned by Gwari, still they are backwards so you all should tell us what your people are achieving or keep quiet

pazienza:
Yes! There is Uche Okwukwu and co, who are Igbophilic, but that means nothing.Mainstream Ikwerre is not Igbo loving, they crave for independence, and we must respect that, and relate with them like we would non Igbos, yes none Igbos! Not even as relatives or cousins! We must be ruthless, if we must jump over the hurdles before us. Emotionalism must give way for pragmatism and survival at all costs.
Hitler was not a German, he was Austrian, yet embraced Germany.

I would have said more on this Ikwerre and PH issue, but here is not the right platform, too many hawks and hyenas lurking around.