7. Mr President, around 1988, the late Oba Erediawa the father of the current Oba against constitutional provisions and the advise of noble Bini indigenes and Itsekiri prominent indigenes allegedly claimed to have created what he called a OLOGBO DUKEDOME without any legislative enactment or pronouncements. According to this plan, the late Oba was to have one of his brothers as his representative in Ologbo community, a land which from the creation of mankind and since over 800 years of the Binis and their Obas has never seen such an illegality. This broad daylight illegality and affront on the territorial integrity of the Itsekiri people was vehemently and ferociously resisted.
9. The reasons why the Itsekiri aboriginal indigenes of the community fought against the illegality was that amongst several other reasons, their forefather, Ityasere Egharegbemi the number three traditional chief in Warri kingdom, was the first to deforest the land and settle in the area at a time which is now far out of human memories with a very strong and large family before he died.
10. More so, it is on record that one of the grandson of the original founder of Ologbo community, the Ityasere, the mystical Itsekiri warrior called IKAYE was gifted EXTRA LANDS as compensation and for his war exploits and service in helping Oba Osewende, in 1818 to defeat the great Oba Arakele, the Deji of Akure who hitherto that period, had almost ruined the Bini people through wars and famine that threatened their existence. The tales and woes of the Binis and their Obas in the hands of the Akure warriors and their powerful Dejis, is available on different history libraries across Nigeria for inquisitive minds
11. On returning from that war, the Oba asked IKAYE to start his journey from Ologbo community which was far far into existence towards Benin city while he would do the same from Benin. The two parties met at a community called IYANOMO along the Benin-Sapele road as one travels to Warri from Benin by the right. They both ate and drank and took an oath after carrying out blood sacrifices promising to keep the covenant and never to cross that boundary to attack each other. This true historical account which has stood the test of time from generations in the past till date, is dishonorably denied by the current Oba with an empty wave of the hands without adducing any concrete evidence or facts.
12. On the above premise, the Itsekiri people resisted that ignoble action of the late Oba Erediawa. But to keep the blood relationship and historical connection between the two tribes, it was amicably resolved that since we are all one, the Oba should be giving some part of the proceeds from whatever accrues from the land. This was the greatest mistake the Itsekiri aboriginal indigenes of Ologbo community and the rest Itsekiri communities have done which the current Oba is capitalizing on unsuccessfully however to lay false claims to our homelands in Edo state. But he will fail.
PRESENTLY
13. The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare 11 is promoting inter communal war by his several illegal activities in our ancestral homelands in Edo state which is an offence proscribed in the Criminal Code under section 42 that is punishable with life imprisonment. As can be seen conspicuously on the signpost shown below, he has caused a signpost with his picture and that of his stooge one Owen Akenzua who is illegally parading himself as ENOGIE of Ologbo Dukedom to be placed on Itsekiri aboriginal homeland of Kolokolo. This singular act and other provocative incursions into our territories, is enough evidence that the Oba is working against the Federal government efforts to keep the peace and order in every parts of this country. To allow him to continue unchecked will spell doom because, no reasonable man will sit down and allow a traditional ruler who has never ruled over him to come and lay claim to his inheritance. The Itsekiris are not a conquered tribe.
The signpost was put there immediately a