Today, 22 November, 2017, the former militant leader Ateke Micheal Tom was Installed as Amayanabo(KING) of Okochiri in Okirika, Rivers State.

He was ordained by both the Okrika and Ogu/Bolo Divisional Council Of Chiefs.



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FirstPostNig:
Today, 22 November, 2017, the former militant leader Ateke Micheal Tom was Installed as Amayanabo(KING) of Okochiri in Okirika, Rivers State.

He was ordained by both the Okrika and Ogu/Bolo Divisional Council Of Chiefs.



CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS: https://firstpost.ng/ex-militant-leader-ateke-tom-installed-as-king-in-rivers-state/

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Never knew he's from a Royal Family
in Okrika. According to Ijaw/Kalabari
tradition, a slave/freed slave/commoner
or freeborn
cannot be a king or Amayanabo!


When he was into extreme militancy
and his gang killed people he made
enemies for himself. I hope he has
made up to those he offended when
he was into violence.


I wish him a happy reign anyways
because I have good professional friends from
Okrika Town and I once lived and
worked in a multinational firm in
PH.

I don't think there is any such thing as ijaw royal family.
They are just dashing titles up and down.
Jaja was a slave and he became an ijaw king.
Their kingship makes no sense.
They have no royal family, they pick and chose who is going to be their king.

Konquest:

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Never knew he's from a Royal Family
in Okrika. According to Ijaw/Kalahari
tradition, a slave/freed slave/commoner
cannot be a king or Amayanabo!


When he was into extreme militancy
and his gang killed people he made
enemies for himself. I hope he has
made up to those he offended when
he was into violence.


I wish him a happy reign anyways
because I have good professional friends from
Okrika Town and I once lived and
worked in a multinational firm in
PH.

historyworld030:
I don't think there is any such thing as ijaw royal family.
They are just dashing titles up and down.
Jaja was a slave and he became an ijaw king.
Their kingship makes no sense.
They have no royal family, they pick and chose who is going to be their king.

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There is!

The history books even reveal that
Bonny has royalty and the canoe war houses for example. There
are archival documents written by
white American slave traders who came
to Bonny to buy captured Africans that
also clearly indicate this fact!


You're brilliant for bringing up the Jaja
issue, I wanted to include that aspect in
my original post. I will address it now!


In the major archival materials and aa popular
book by Sir Allan Burns entitled
"History of Nigeria" Jaja was
referred to as a "Middleman Chief" because that is what he was, a go between
the white merchants from Liverpool and the interior/hinterland people
in the oil palm trade.


Did you know that Opobo [A small part of Western Ikot Abasi - a part of Ibibioland?] When Jaja
escaped from Bonny Island, he sought
refuge in Ikot Abasi axis in 1870, and
he was chased by Bonny war canoes
and would have been wiped out completely.


It was the white traders who came to his aid and prevented what would have been
a final massacre of Jaja's group that he
escaped with from Bonny.


The archival materials reveal that Jaja
was very brutal killing/beheading the
captured people of the interior such
as the Annangs who also were prevented
by Jaja's arrogance from taking part in
the lucrative oil palm trade with the
white traders.


Jaja was a freed slave from Amaigbo [Umu Duru Oha clan] in Imo State and
his father was a SLAVE merchant as
well. There is an account that I saw on NTA Network 2 years ago on one of
my trips to Nigeria where it was indicated
that Jaja's father was the one that SOLD
Jaja his son - although Walter Ofonagoro
who is from Amaigbo denied it. The
classic documentary was produced by a Mr.Enemuo of North and South Media.
I hope to get a personal copy of that
serialized documentary soon.


Jaja also visited his home village as an adult and the house he built in Amaigbo
was shown in the documentary.


So my question then was...
Jaja could NOT have been made a king
or Amayanabo because he is a FORMER
slave. He is NOT even an Ijaw freeborn
but a NATURALIZED Ijaw via a tribal initiation/conversion ceremony of non-Ijaws. To me, Jaja still remains an
Ibo!


So how can modern day school literature
and revisionist propaganda refer to him as a king
when the British colonial materials referred to him as
as a "CHIEF"... a "Middleman Chief?"
Somebody just wanted to dash him
an artificial Amayanabo title on Ibibioland called
Ikot Abasi [part of which became Opobo].
Part of western Ikot Abasi [Opobo] is now
in Rivers state and the rest of Ikot Abasi
is in Akwa Ibom state! Opobo is made up
of people with Ibibio, Ibani [Ijaw], and some Ibo bloodlines!


Jaja was the head of a canoe house in Bonny and later a mercenary leader who
supplied 50 mercenaries to the British
during the Anglo-Asanti War, so I do
NOT consider that kind of person as an
African nationalist that some fake
history reviews, online blogs and school social
studies/Nigerian history books have tried to make
him out to be! He was presented with a sword
allegedly from the Queen Victoria for
helping the British to DEFEAT the great
Asanti warriors of Ghana! Those history books
and the asinine social studies entries
on Jaja should be removed because
he was NOT an African hero just as President
Buhari's speech writer tried to portray
Jaja in 2015 during PMB's swearing-in speech!


The British finally used Jaja, got tired of his
cunny ways and extreme brutality to fellow Africans such as the Annangs, Ibibios
and some Ibos of the interior who wanted
to trade through the Imo River, but were
PREVENTED by him with brute force. He was
finally removed and deported in 1885
[15 years after he fled Bonny to Ikot
Abasi in Ibibioland - now named Opobo]
to Accra and sentenced to 5 years jail term in the West Indies.

Poetic justice...


All the best!

Nice, thank you for the lesson.

Konquest:

^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^

There is!

The history books even reveal that
Bonny has royalty and the canoe war houses for example. There
are archival documents written by
white American slave traders who came
to Bonny to buy captured Africans that
also clearly indicate this fact!


You're brilliant for bringing up the Jaja
issue, I wanted to include that aspect in
my original post. I will address it now!


In the major archival materials and aa popular
book by Sir Allan Burns entitled
"History of Nigeria" Jaja was
referred to as a "Middleman Chief" because that is what he was, a go between
the white merchants from Liverpool and the interior/hinterland people
in the oil palm trade.


Did you know that Opobo [A small part of Western Ikot Abasi - a part of Ibibioland?] When Jaja
escaped from Bonny Island, he sought
refuge in Ikot Abasi axis in 1870, and
he was chased by Bonny war canoes
and would have been wiped out completely.


It was the white traders who came to his aid and prevented what would have been
a final massacre of Jaja's group that he
escaped with from Bonny.


The archival materials reveal that Jaja
was very brutal killing/beheading the
captured people of the interior such
as the Annangs who also were prevented
by Jaja's arrogance from taking part in
the lucrative oil palm trade with the
white traders.


Jaja was a freed slave from Amaigbo [Umu Duru Oha clan] in Imo State and
his father was a SLAVE merchant as
well. There is an account that I saw on NTA Network 2 years ago on one of
my trips to Nigeria where it was indicated
that Jaja's father was the one that SOLD
Jaja his son - although Walter Ofonagoro
who is from Amaigbo denied it. The
classic documentary was produced by a Mr.Enemuo of North and South Media.
I hope to get a personal copy of that
serialized documentary soon.


Jaja also visited his home village as an adult and the house he built in Amaigbo
was shown in the documentary.


So my question then was...
Jaja could NOT have been made a king
or Amayanabo because he is a FORMER
slave. He is NOT even an Ijaw freeborn
but a NATURALIZED Ijaw via a tribal initiation/conversion ceremony of non-Ijaws. To me, Jaja still remains an
Ibo!


So how can modern day school literature
and revisionist propaganda refer to him as a king
when the British colonial materials referred to him as
as a "CHIEF"... a "Middleman Chief?"
Somebody just wanted to dash him
an artificial Amayanabo title on Ibibioland called
Ikot Abasi [part of which became Opobo].
Part of western Ikot Abasi [Opobo] is now
in Rivers state and the rest of Ikot Abasi
is in Akwa Ibom state! Opobo is made up
of people with Ibibio, Ibani [Ijaw], and some Ibo bloodlines!


Jaja was the head of a canoe house in Bonny and later a mercenary leader who
supplied 50 mercenaries to the British
during the Anglo-Asanti War, so I do
NOT consider that kind of person as an
African nationalist that some fake
history reviews, online blogs and school social
studies/Nigerian history books have tried to make
him out to be! He was presented with a sword
allegedly from the Queen Victoria for
helping the British to DEFEAT the great
Asanti warriors of Ghana! Those history books
and the asinine social studies entries
on Jaja should be removed because
he was NOT an African hero just as President
Buhari's speech writer tried to portray
Jaja in 2015 during PMB's swearing-in speech!


The British finally used Jaja, got tired of his
cunny ways and extreme brutality to fellow Africans such as the Annangs, Ibibios
and some Ibos of the interior who wanted
to trade through the Imo River, but were
PREVENTED by him with brute force. He was
finally removed and deported in 1885
[15 years after he fled Bonny to Ikot
Abasi in Ibibioland - now named Opobo]
to Accra and sentenced to 5 years jail term in the West Indies.

Poetic justice...


All the best!