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PHijo:
The purpose was to ensure we got the commodities at the lowest possible price and to control our sphere of influence. Apart from Igbo our traders also learnt to speak Portuguese, Spanish, English Ogoni, Ibibio just to mention a few languages.

The language people call broken or pidgin today has its roots in the coastal commercial activities.

Which of the languages you claim they learnt has endured like the igbo.

Igbo language is outstanding there and it's overwhelming because of the large igbo indigenes there. So you can't deny them their igboness especially when they stayed put with the language

PHijo:
No, it is not! Not at all. Bonny and Opobo do not have a similar history to Warri. You distorting historical facts.

I didn't say Igbo in Bonny, Opobo or elsewhere rejected Igbos. I wouldn't say that because we don't have Igbos in those kingdoms.

100s of years ago Igbos sold Igbos to us. We sold some to the European traders. Some were integrated into our societies. As long as African Americans are American citizens and not Igbos so Ijawland has no Igbos.

African Americans can't trace themselves back because they are overwhelmed by foreign people and they have forgotten their language. And also distance played a major role against them.

In this case you people are only transit point.
And have the same color and proximity and couldn't overwhelm them with your language instead they overwhelmed you with theirs.

So you can't compare yourselves with Americans

PHijo:
People speak English, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa as a second, third or fourth language. That doesn't mean it is their mother tongue.

Is igbo now an international language that people will be speaking it all over a strange place as their lingua franca

OK, for what purpose

Iykopee:
Opobo people dey speak Igbo language. I never enter Bonny to confirm their language.

Yeah, you are right. Igbo is their mother tongue

PHijo:
They don't speak Igbo. They speak Ijaw. You speaking English or the Welsh speaking English doesn't make any of you English.

The two iconic Ijaw leaders that put fire in the butts of you Igbos, one is from the grand Bonny kingdom and he happens to be one the founding fathers of the Ijaw National Congress. He also happened to be the founder of the political party that challenged the Igbo excesses in the now defunct eastern region.

Look for your kinfolk in Israel or Congo. We don't have them here, we are not your kinfolk.

Their mother tongue is igbo
English is secondary language

Iykopee:
So u dey hoard the kaikai. I need one shot.

You bad gaan. Hahahha

PHijo:
They don't speak Igbo. They speak Ijaw. You speaking English or the Welsh speaking English doesn't make any of you English.

The two iconic Ijaw leaders that put fire in the butts of you Igbos, one is from the grand Bonny kingdom and he happens to be one the founding fathers of the Ijaw National Congress. He also happened to be the founder of the political party that challenged the Igbo excesses in the now defunct eastern region.

Look for your kinfolk in Israel or Congo. We don't have them here, we are not your kinfolk.

Even your fellow ijaw in this forum has recognized that not all parts speak igbo
But you are here saying that they all speak ijaw.

Do you know that there are also efiks in opobo as indigenes

SaintBishop:
Answer the damn question! That ur idoit brother Bonesking was typing nonsense here.

Btw, not everyone in bonny speak igbo.

Ofcourse I know but igbo is the major language there.

Bonny and Opobo are mixed just like warri that has isoko, ijaw, urhobo, itshekiri.
But the Ijaws are trying their best to ijawnize the whole place and don't want to recognize the igbo descendants and wanting them to claim that they are not igbos and even organizing ijaw language competitions to try and see if they can diminish the majority igbos.
And phijo is bragging that the igbos there have rejected us.

Ijaw is not the majority in warri but always fight to have a share of the space while at the same time trying to deny the majority igbos in opobo and bonny kingdoms

PHijo:
Why are you attaching yourself to people who have continually rejected you?

We are not claiming Igbo speaking people. We don't have Igbo speaking people neighbours. Our neighbours are mostly our waterways and other ethnic groups that are domiciled in our region.

When people reject you over and over again in over 7 decades and you still force yourself on them you are not proud.

I have pointed out opobo and bonny that speak igbo.
What manner of rejection are talking about.

AwkaFinest:
Port Harvourt South who has it?

Thats if at all you know where southern ph is

Claimants
Them Don come again

Anyway, I don't want to delve in PH now

SaintBishop:
So kalabaris and Okrikans speak igbo? wonders shall never end.

what I know is that Opobo and bonny people speak igbo

AwkaFinest:
So you can't even live in our potopoto Republic. No wonder una wan die put for Ijaw matter.

Anybody is free to live anywhere.

Or are Ijaws claiming PH too

PHijo:
You are suffering inferiority complex. You couldn't even coin a name for your country. Even after 50 years you rely on the intellect of an Ijaw man to give you an identity.

Your 'leader', Nnamdi Kanu is 'leading' you via signal calls.

Our people stand their ground on their soil.

All you know is to claim other people's identity, culture and homeland and bark "Biafra or death", like Kanu's toothless dog, "Jack".

Inferior to who?
Igbos are proud people who can stand up to anybody both intellectually and more

It's you people that are claiming igbo speaking people neighboring you.
I will never claim an Ijaw speaking man as Igbo the way you people are claiming igbo speaking people as ijaws

Kinematics:
10 kobo crude oil?

It doesn’t matter. We shall survive with industries and services.

NB : oil is gradually going out of fashion

Bonesking:
E be like say suicide dey hungry you. No be my hand them go hear say Kinematic drink Sniper out depression.

Bring your evidence you no bring. I get more for my arsenal. Na one by one I go dey throw am.

When you have superior argument and evidence they will resort to insult

Bonesking:
Next time the Ijaw INC members try to talk down on the Igbo links of the political Ijaws of Rivers state, show them this document. We have lots of evidence (From foreign and Nigerian scholars), even from Politicians the likes of Magnus Abe, Ameachi, Peterside, and Dokubo, but inorder not to make some people hang themselves, we shall thread with pity.

Thank you very much for this information that is more than hundred years old.

These Igbo haters are just too greedy and funny

Christistruth00:
Sea Ports, Crude Oil, Land

Crude oil in Igboland is okay for us.
We are more inclined to business and brain work
Your lands are Swampy. We have better lands
We will build our own seaports

Christistruth00:
So that you can include them in IPOBs map of Biafra.

History for purpose of Landgrabbing

What value will the Ijaws add to the igbos if they are included in Biafra.
Igbos are a greater tribe

Kinematics:
Who is disputing with you? Seems you think we give a damn about your fantasy. Keep famtasising.

You are not disputing.
You have been agreeing with me.

The popular and historic
King Jaja is igbo

I am happy you now know that you are just trying your best to fight the truth

Kinematics:
Did we ask for a referendum?

It settles disputes and brings out the truth in a civilized way

Kinematics:
Ipoo miscreant dream as always

Why the abuse.
Referendum will expose the truth and settle it.
Its easy

PHijo:
You are standing against logic!
Both Bonny and Opobo call their kings amayanabo and you stupidly try to spin it? It traditional title is commonly used across Ijawland but people like you are deliberately trying to distort facts. People are talking about their bloodlines and you want them to swallow the trash they teach you in IPOB.

Who on earth does that apart from stupid IPOB apologists?

In texts up till today. People still study "King Jaja of opobo" and nothing like amanayabo.

You will be confusing people if you try to change it in any text book to write "amanayabo Jaja of opobo"
The text book will not even sell. Only the writer will read it
Some history are just too established for you to try to change it

PHijo:
I am from Rivers state, don't come and tell us who we are.

Do you think that if a referendum is held today in opobo that they will follow ijaw that don't speak their language?

Even bonny will be split

PHijo:
You as a Nigerian even after 100 years of amalgamation you still can't spell it correctly!

For people like you who Britain gifted warrant chiefs anything presumed to be British or said by the British is law.

It is no surprise you want to impose English language on our traditional institutions in Ijawland.

The British mislabled traditional institutions in Northern Nigeria and other parts of Africa.

Even Jaja's correct name was never used by the British.

At least they would have pronounced amanayabo in a corrupted forn the way they corrupted the name Jumbo to Jaja. That is how I know the British behave

Kinematics:
Next time don't jump into matter wey you no understand.

What does Amayanabo mean in English?

How can you say I didn't understand what I read about king Jaja.
You also read about him, didn't you?

So stop behaving like you are his contemporary.

We are just trying to use facts and logic to find out the truth but you just resorted to abuse.

PHijo:
You are stupid beyond comprehension!

Jaja was the amayanabo of Opobo. People from other cultures referred to him as King of Opobo.

The books referred to him as King Jaja because they could not properly use the Ijaw language. Jaja was the abbreviation of his actual name.

Due to the fact you Igbos never had a royal system makes it a challenge for people like you to understand how kings are named.

Do you think the queen of England has a single name and a single title?

That the amayanabo of Opobo was referred to as king Jaja of Opobo doesn't make him an English monarch. His contemporaries like the amayanabo of Nembe, Kalabari, Bonny, Okrika etc were all referred to as king in English writings. That did not stop them from being Ijaw monarchs.

Chief Eyamba of Calabar was referred to as Ironbar by British records. That did not change his ethnicity, status or identity.

In the whole of Nigeria the Igbo are the only ones the British had to create a system of governance for.

The culture of perpetual anarchy your forebears embraced is what make Igbos struggle with concept of constitutionalism or organised society till date. It is no coincidence your kinfolk are known for crime across the globe.

That Britain gave Igbos warrant chiefs shouldn't make you think others in Nigeria had to rely on Britain for the creation of their traditional institutions.

So the British could spell and pronounce
Shehu of bornu, emir of kano, oba of Lagos, Obi of onitsha but couldn't pronounce amanayabo.
Una try

So u can't blame us. We never knew him as amanayabo

Kinematics:
No he answered Eze and Obi

Correction :
He didn't answer Eze or obi
He only answered king Jaja of opobo

When retards are boxed to the wall they resort to abuses

PHijo:
I thought you had sense. It is obvious you don't.

Same here. I thought you had too

Have you ever seen where any history about Benin kingship/kingdom is titled "King of Benin"

You will always see oba of Benin

PHijo:
Yes, he did

History does not attest to that
In all the texts written about him there was no place he was referred to as amanayabo.

All the titles in all his texts read "King Jaja of opobo"

Kinematics:
So the Amayanabo was added by Dandison?

Did Jaja answer amanayabo or not?

Kinematics:
Attaché by force. So Amayanabo is an Ibo title?

If you like put amanayabo or emir. It doesn't change the origin of the founder.
King Jaja never answered amanayabo

Igbos are a bigger tribe so stop this attachment rubbish you people are saying
We have emir in ilorin haven't made ilorin a fulani town