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Hussein035:
But I thought you are one of the useless Obi supporters, why are you typing rubbish again..
I don't want to see Biafra campaign after election ooo. Otherwise we will castrate you people

Can you provide just one proof of your useless thought? If you can't, then you must be a big FOOL.
I'm a proud IPOB member and our position has remained that we aren't interested in the shambolic elections of the zoo. Referendum is what we stand for and that's what I've been preaching all year long.
When the time comes, if riffraffs like you do anyhow, we will skin you alive.

realjoe:
Proudly Kuteb son. Rimamsanati

What's the meaning of Rimamtanung?
How related are the kutebs to the Jukuns?

Golan007:
Abeg go siddon for dirty.

You can't find because there's none. The Nigerian army will answer for her crimes against Biafrans in general and Igbos in particular.

[quote author=Golan007 post=119911128][/quote]Post another one from Igboland. It was part of the request I made.

We shall win at the end. The time of our salvation is near.
The courts have ordered his release but they refused.
The Nigerian president said he won't interfere with court proceedings. Today, he has clearly interfered by not respecting the verdict of the courts.
The DSS said they don't have money for his medication. We gathered money and sent it to them. They rejected the money because we all know that money for medication wasn't the problem.
The world is taking note.
God bless MNK
God bless ESN
God bless IPOB
God bless Biafra.
All Hail Biafra.

Golan007:
Shut up.

Several have been arrested and infact killed in military engagements.

You are wilfully blind anyway.

Prove me wrong on this thread by posting a link or media coverage of just one fulani terrorist militiaman killed in Igboland by the Nigerian army after all the killings they've done here.
Post another one from Benue state.
Let the world judge between you and I.

mightyhaze:
Well well the relaxed mood of the lady in the video was disturbing..there was no atom of fear in her..she even managed to find a sultry voice with which she answered to the questions directed at her.. at a point she even had the presence of mind to discover some food debris at the back of her teeth and found a wood splinter to probe at it.. Sb who has some likely multiple murder charges hanging on her


Well that ..or maybe just overconfidence

Exactly. That relaxed mood including picking her teeth gave her away. The rest is history.

Golan007:
Mumu.

Nigeria army has kept the integrity of the nation by warring against those who attempt break it apart.

Na IPOB we wan come dey believe?

Na only integrity? With all the genocide going on in Southern Kaduna and Benue state? Not a single fulani terrorist has ever been arrested and prosecuted by the Nigerian army. In fact, the same Nigerian army aids the terrorist fulani militia in sacking communities through giving them logistics, cover and reinforcements. We have proofs and will tender it to the international court at the right time.

Golan007:
The logo on her head means what?

If una dey thief gun, na hat come be wetin?

The thread isn't meant for your likes who have sold their souls to the devil by supporting the terrorist Nigerian army against a freedom fighting movement.
Let neutral observers take note and judge for themselves.

Yesterday, a video was posted of an alleged IPOB/ESN lady accused of murder and all sorts of crimes. Below is the link to the thread.
https://www.nairaland.com/7516971/soldiers-arrested-22-year-old-female-ipob/3#119874537

Like we've always maintained, the Nigerian army will always concoct all sorts of wicked and evil accusations targeted against IPOB just to give us a bad name.
After seeing the video, we went into investigation to expose them as liars and we've been able to get proofs to that effect.
We want the world to see for themselves the extent to which the army will go just to tarnish the image of a freedom fighting movement.
Be the judge yourselves.

Below are pictures from the head gear the accused lady was wearing. Notice the logo on it. See clearly the dragon sign. Compare it with the logo on the Nigerian army 2018 West African Social Activities' invitation card. This program was hosted by the 82 Division based in Enugu.

You all can see that the said lady is most likely a member of the Nigerian army who was used to act the movie with the sole aim of soiling the name and image of IPOB. Majority of the horrendous crimes videod and shown on the media against IPOB and ESN are a set up of the Nigerian army. Do not believe them.

Captain8:
Fejoku have you gone dumb after seeing the map?

I don't waste my time on slow people. How can you bring an INC inspired map produced in 2014 and call it Boro's map? Do you see how foolish you are. If you want me to engage you further, provide the map that Boro himself used for his rebellion.

Notice how this thread will be very dry because it doesn't concern IPOB.

After reading through the entire pages of the thread, I noticed that some people feel the osu issue is fast dying I shouldn't be brought up or discussed because it will eventually die off. They forget that currently, many people are suffering from its relics especially in the discrimination surrounding marital and chieftaincy issues. Others rightly feel it should be given the required attention it deserves seeing that current realities doesn't justify the tagging of anyone an osu in this generation.
Igbos who are conversant with this issue know very well that it is actually dying out and isn't prevalent in Igboland due to many communities phasing out the practice by themselves as the years go by. However, some communities for reasons best known to them still hold tight to the practice and as such is giving us a bad image. I'll try my best to make the issue clear for everyone who wants to understand the issue surrounding the osu caste and how widespread including how strong to the practice remains in Igboland.
Before I do so, I want to state that I don't really know much about the practice first hand since my own community (town) comprising eight villages have no record of osu. I did ask about the osu issue while I was an undergraduate from some family elders and they told me that we don't have such in my town. After studying extensively about my town, I can confirm that nothing of such existed among us because we all descended from the same person. How other Igbo communities got to have whole villages of osus is difficult for me to grasp.
This is how I want to break down the discuss.

1. When did the osu caste system start?
Ans. I don't know. Probably, before the inception of the transatlantic slave trade. It is said that lots of those sold off during those days were people who committed abominable crimes. It is also believed that many osus where descended from people who were 'set apart' as a result of the abominable acts they committed thereafter dedicating them to the gods of the community. The osucaste system might be the first 'traditional prison' before subsequent taboo breakers were sold off during transatlantic slave trade era. Since the 'traditional prison' already created a mini-settlement, the people of the main community (dianas) might believe that perpetuating the disenfranchisement should continue forever.

2. How widespread is it in Igboland?
Ans. I can't say for sure. I do know that it was found in almost all the different Igbo clans and might go even with another name but the level to which the distinction between osus and dianas was made wasn't the same hence some clans easily phased it out while others held on to it to this very day. Some Igbo groups including my town never had a history of osu.

3. How does one become an osu?
Ans. I clearly don't know but the most prevalent I've heard is through three means.
i. If a man under duress runs into the shrine of the community god for protection, his life is spared in exchange for his 'freebornness'. It means he has dedicated his life to the gods and loses the privilege that goes with being a diana.
ii. If a man/woman commits an abomination and is caught, he/she is offered options which includes being branded an osu, banished or executed.
iii. Through associating with the osus. In the past, the association was very strict but today, it's mostly limited to marriage. If you marry an osu, you and your children become one.

4. How widespread is it in Igboland today?
Ans. I can say with all confidence that the practice has gone to it barest minimum as majority of Igbos don't even know who is an osu or not. Even most of those with osu link don't know until a few occasion demands a research into a family tree before it is discovered.
Everyone associates with every other person and do things together until the issue of marriage comes up. Marriage in Igboland is an institution of families hence a thorough research about both intended families are done to prevent going into the wrong family. The research isn't specifically about osu. Things like history of mental problems, infidelity and other vices are targeted and if found could terminate the marriage. Unfortunately, if the elders find out any link with an osu family, this becomes the highest consideration because they fear their whole kindred might be linked with the osu stigma hence they back off with speed.
Presently, a lot of people have links with the osu families indirectly without knowing because communities without the osu caste marry into the osu families without minding and those who mind about the caste marry from these communities without osu history thereby linking up without knowing. It's just funny to still hear about the osu caste today.
A lot of Igbo groups/clans have outlawed the practice leaving very few communities to revel in it. The Eastern Nigerian government I once read had outlawed it long time ago. I wonder why these few communities still hold on to it.

5. Is the osu caste system still relevant today?
Ans. No it is not. Almost all present day osus are called such by association not because they committed any sacrilege themselves. They do not deserve that term.
The modern system of governance has provided a place for whatever form of defaulters/criminals leaving no room for the traditional means that can make a person an osu. Community banishment still remains an active means of driving away someone who commits an abomination.
Finally, those community gods have mostly being confined to the dustbin of history, hence nothing dedicated to them in the days of yore should still carry their yoke. It becomes appalling when a fellow Christian refuses marriage to another Christian because this other Christian was said to have his ancestor dedicated to a god. How stupid and ridiculous does it sound in the ears?

Conclusively, I believe that superstition is the reason behind the continuous discrimination on the osu caste system because economy isn't the cause. Wealth and status isn't considered when osu issue comes up. The families are mostly scared of whatever bad thing may be brought into their family and that the society will also brand them as osu.
This is all about the osu caste issue.

NB: Should the outdated osu caste system be discussed with the aim of killing it forever? Very much. It should be done by the churches and other relevant bodies.
Is it something that should be shouted all over about? No it isn't as there are more pressing issues concerning the whole Igbo nation than it. Most Igbo communities who outlawed it long time ago did so without any noise. These other groups who still hold on to it should visit these other communities and learn from them how they sorted out theirs.

May God bless AlaIgbo. Amen

chimbuz:
I am from[b]UBAHAEZE[/b] ORODO in Imo State, I live in Lagos and grew up in Onitsha Anambra State. The issue of Eziama town in Orodo and Osu caste is historical. History has it that their forefather was an Osu thereby making all of them Osu. I also watched that episode on Moments with Moo. Some of the issues raised in that episode were exaggerated and some outright lies. It is also true the whole town is osu but its a topic nobody talks about until when marriage comes up, even then its hushed. That non osu's dont buy from Osu's in the market its a lie. I buy things from Nkwo Orodo market whenever i travel home and nobody has ever told not to buy from any person.

On the fight that occurred, the man that was interviewed on Moments with with MOO programme was economical with the truth. The fight that ensued was not one sided as the man made us to believe. It was between Amaukwu town(my maternal town) and Eziama town. The altercation started when an Amaukwu Orodo man allegedly referred to an Eziama Orodo man as osu at the Nkwo Orodo Market. The man from Eziama reported to his townsmen and they mercilessly beat up the Amaukwu man, took him to their shrine, stripping him naked and proceeded to forcibly administer some juju oath on him purporting to making him an osu and leaving him almost dead. The incident did not go down well with some youths of Amaukwu town who beat up some of Eziama people. This led to the burning of houses on both towns aided by a retired police man from Eziama who allegedly took active part in the fracas. The moments with moo report was one sided as they did not get the views of people outside Eziama.

Nobody is in support of Osu caste system and it will not stopped by trading blames on fora like this.

Thanks for giving a vivid explanation of the problem from Eziama, Orodo. This should help readers understand the crux of the matter as against the insinuations that crept up right from the start of the thread.

Yorubas should endeavour to keep their house in order. They shouldn't kill themselves for one useless politician. Yorubaland is bigger than any person and it is what they should fight to defend.
I support Yoruba nation. Stand together and fight for your land just as we are doing for Biafra.

SilverOrLead:
Lolz, I have no problem with Yoruba nationalism or that of any other nationality in Nigeria other than that of Igbo Biafraism because unlike the Igbo , the Yoruba does not plan to annex the Niger Delta into their proposed Odua Republic.

Can that be said of your OSU ambitions under Biafraism which is nothing but Igbo expansionism and annexation into my Niger Delta ?

Stay your lane OSU.

I have been at the forefront promoting you expulsion from Nigeria because of your land grabbing and attache by force nature.

Nigeria will break up and you will be left to your own device.

That's my own submission and this is why you osus hate me because I oppose any attempt of you repeating your foolishness of annexing my Niger Delta.

Osu

Lmao. Of course you'll have nothing against other secessionist except Biafrans. Your hate is legendary. IPOB has repeatedly said that a referendum should be made for all ethnic groups in the Biafran territory and whatever group who isn't interested to remain in Biafra would be counted out. How then can you still accuse us of annexation? Do you see how hate can cause lunacy? You seriously need help.

That said, no one needs to trouble you about naming what ethnic group you belong to in the Niger Delta because you're not from there. The Niger Delta itself has millions of Igbo groups there which no one can deny and we won't be leaving them behind for any terrorist groups to feast on.
You are a Yorubaman and should be proud of it. Just learn not to pokenose on the affairs of Ndigbo and you will be fine.

beerfraud:
Peter obi wants to destabilize Yorubaland

Can you explain how this clash is connected to Peter Obi?

I as a proud IPOB member has continued to say that the division of Nigeria is the best thing that will happen to all the various ethnic groups tied down in Nigeria. The more we continue to prolong the life of Nigeria, the more we descend into the abyss. Peter Obi though a prudent businessman and administrator won't solve the fundamental Nigerian problem of incompatibility of the various constituent parts. Whatever progress he might achieve will be reversed by his northern successor thereby plunging us back into severe suffering. What then is the need of keeping Nigeria together?

Followers of this thread will like to hear your answer to the question I asked in the first line.

Advocate500:
brymo the Yoruba bigot left the room.

Closely behind him is another hate filled buffoon called SilverorLead. You won't see him comment on this thread.

Emergingnation:
Afonja killing themselves...

Don't be like them. Let's remain focus and always stand for the truth.
SilverorLead, where are you?

The division of Nigeria remains the best option for us all. We will gradually find our feet after the division. As long as we continue to deceive ourselves thinking Nigeria can be patched, things will continue to get worse.
It's just common sense.

BanyXchi:
Because they are smart enough to understand the consequences of lumping together ethnic groups that have nothing in common. The Europeans have a very long history of tribalistic wars(the bloodiest in the world) against themselves and they learnt alot from it. Only some dumb Africans defend the existence of contraptions like Nigeria that was created by the same Europeans even without our consent... What do we Yorubas have in common with fulanis, ibos or Efiks?? Does it make any sense that a ethnic group has great and large as the Yorubas is divided into several countries and lumped with ethnic groups they have nothing in common with? Majority of the richest and most developed countries in the world are homogeneous or at least have a ethnic majority... The only way we can fix this part of the world is by redrawing the Berlin-Conference-created borders. Nigeria is a crime against humanity. A country set up to destroy Yorubas. We must go our separate ways in peace.

Now you're making sense unlike before that you're attacking anything Biafra.

Roboto11:
Any group Ipob supports must carry mayhem with it.

Wetin carry IPOB enter this matter now. How is this news related to IPOB?