vanbonattel:
Already abolished everywhere since 20 years ago, stop repeating rubbish.

lexylaw40kuti:
I think now they are trying to make it official

vanbonattel:
Already abolished everywhere since 20 years ago, stop repeating rubbish.

lexylaw40kuti:

Guardian Nigeria
Dec 25, 2023 4:20 AM



As human rights activists and organisations intensify efforts to abolish Osu, Ohu, Ume and Diala caste systems in the South East, two other Imo State communities, Amurie Omanze and Oboro Amurie, in Isu Local Council of the state, have set January 4, 2024, to abolish these caste systems.

Osu caste systems.
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As human rights activists and organisations intensify efforts to abolish Osu, Ohu, Ume and Diala caste systems in the South East, two other Imo State communities, Amurie Omanze and Oboro Amurie, in Isu Local Council of the state, have set January 4, 2024, to abolish these caste systems.


A statement by the Executive Director of Pillars of Hope Africa Initiative (POHAI), Chinyere Oge-Kalu, said that the abolishment of these caste systems in the two communities was a fruit of years of advocacy by the National Human Rights Commission, POHAI, G’naira Family Foundation (GFF) and Kemdi Chino Opera Foundation (KCOF).

She expressed confidence that more communities, the entire Imo State and Igbo land will soon abolish these reprehensible caste systems, which dehumanises fellow compatriots as slaves/outcastes.


Oge-Kalu commended the traditional rulers and the people of Amurie Ancient Kingdom, comprising Amurie Omanze and Oboro Amurie for setting the pace in abolishing these caste systems in Igbo land.

The Eze Udo II of Amurie Omanze, Eze C.O Nnajiemere and Duruoha 1 of Oboro Amurie, Eze V.O Ahamefule Durugwoegebu iv, while addressing their subjects in the palace of Eze Udo II, said January 4, 2024 had been slated for abolishing Osu, ume, Ohu and diala caste systems in old Amurie Omanze ancient community.

nonhuman:
was abolished over 50years ago not 20

nonhuman:
was abolished over 50years ago not 20

nonhuman:
was abolished over 50years ago not 20

gidgiddy:
No such thing as Osu any more, its a thing of the past

vanbonattel:


I really don't know why people are resurrecting a matter that had been solved.

vanbonattel:
Already abolished everywhere since 20 years ago, stop repeating rubbish.

XAUBulls:

These banning proclamations especially in Anambra and Imo States are just worthless toilet paper. This stigma towards Osu families still exists and I have heard several Lagos-based Ibo males bragging and saying on a live program that I monitored online in 2021 that "if Ibo traditional marriage cannot be banned, then Osu caste system CANNOT be banned!" One of those men who was bragging said he is from the Orlu area of Imo and others identified as being from Anambra.

Even Ifedayo "Daddy Freeze" Olarinde did a program which was beamed worldwide in 2022 on the Osu caste system and he got live calls from some Ibo guys who vehemently said that he should drop the topic and that it is the Ibo way of life that cannot be abolished.

The first ban on Osu caste system was in 1967, that is 56 years ago, and yet it has grown worse and more intense due to societal clannishness among the Ibos.

I have a friend from Rivers State who told me while we were discussing on a wide range of issues 10 years ago that his son was to get married to a young lady who is from a family of Osu, and his wife who is Ibo from Imo State REJECTED the plan, but her son was adamant about marrying the girl. I have also read online reports and watched several videos and programs like "Moments with Mo" by Mo Abudu featuring real men and women from the Osu families showing the continued discrimination towards so-called Osu and Ohu family lineages. They do not have full privileges in their villages, they are isolated in separate parts of their villages, and CANNOT get married to so-called dialla or non-Osu Ibo families. This is why you find the Osus getting married to other ethnic groups outside Iboland. Yes, one of the Ibo men from Orlu that I spoke about earlier said sarcastically in that recorded interview that any Ibo man or woman that you see getting married to a Benue, Yoruba, or Hausa, etc, is most likely an Osu, and that it's usually those groups of Ibos that get married to outsiders.

Even church priests and some Ibo folks (males and females) will tell you it is bad to discriminate against the Osus, but tell them to marry into those families, and they will stylishly decline the offer because of the strong societal stigma among the Ibos!

gidgiddy:
No such thing as Osu any more, its a thing of the past

vanbonattel:
Already abolished everywhere since 20 years ago, stop repeating rubbish.

ottersberger:


First, it is Igbo, not ibo.

Beremx:
Osu caste system still exists in Igbo land though not all parts. Some take it seriously while others don't.

LegendHero:


That means one of my friend back in school then with surname “Nwosu” is an Osu then.

But the guy is from Anambra. I thought Osu is restricted to Imo and Ebonyi before.

Beremx:
Askari don't go calling your friend Osu o! Osu caste system is in Igbo land. No state is exempted. Read below and educate yourself.
Merry Christmas to you

LegendHero:


Then why did someone wrote that any Igbo surname with Osu included in it means they are from lineage of Osu?

Example Osuji, Nwosu, and etc.

So that means going by your point, you can’t recognize an Osu person just by surname?

https://www.chidoonumah.com/understanding-the-osu-caste-system-in-igboland-why-do-people-bear-surnames-like-nwosu-osuagwu-osuigwe-osuji/

Beremx:
not everyone who has Osu in his name is an Osu. Yes you can't recognize an Osu person by surname. I know of a popular female politician from Imo State who is Osu. I don't want to mention her name and I don't wanna give clues.
Osu people are known to be rich and well connected from what I heard sha.

ElSudani:


Ojukwu, Azikiwe and Achebe all referred to themselves as Ibo.