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Dear Nonny,
Itsekiris and the Binis had Igbo slaves for centuries before British colonialism. After the British banned slavery, we were forced to set them free. Some of them returned to Igbo land, others remained with us and gradually formed a new language called ******* (an Itsekiri word which we used to call them while they were our slaves). There are about 200,000 ******* still with us.
(I will not reveal the name of this tribe called *******, because I do not want to offend them, but they are in Delta state)
If they speak, an Igbo person will understand some of what they say, while Itsekiris, Binis and even European Portuguese people will understand them too. Those of them who chose to return to Igbo land have Igbo names that sound like Itsekiri or Benin names, for example Iweka, and many names beginning with Oba or Iken.
That is how some of our names and also Benin names went into the Igbo lexicon.
We have century old carvings in Ode Itsekiri and Benin depicting Igbo slaves, which we sold to the Portuguese via our ancient pre colonial port called Ogidigben. The grandfather of the present Oba of Benin showed some of these carvings to the world famous British anthropologist, Sir David Attenborough in 1973. The video is on YouTube. When you see the carving, even you will have no doubt that the person is Igbo.
Because of the sheer number of Igbo slaves we sold at Ogidigben, the Portuguese named the town Escravos, which means slave in Portuguese. Till today, many people still call Ogidigben Escravos.
We also sold slaves in another town called Burutu, which the Portuguese renamed Forcados (meaning forced labourer, which is a nicer way of saying slaves).
Obviously, I am not too proud of this history. I wish it never happened. History is not always pleasant. I am only revealing it to you because you are getting the wrong idea of linkages between our two peoples.

https://www.facebook.com/111647580740689/posts/312326730672772/

Reno's explanation on how the Igbos came to be slaves of the Bini and Itsekiri
https://www.facebook.com/111647580740689/posts/312362820669163/

No be lie.

Even the Jews were slaves from Egypt to Babylon, Persia, Rome and many other parts of Europe. Today, besides the Fulani every other tribe are slaves in Nigeria. Even if you don't accept it, this is the naked truth.

Chia igbo done suffer oh!! Everyone igbo it reminds me MI and 2face song "if nobody talks about you" let me download the song self igbos are powerful people with great success in Nigeria we will leave Nigeria soon and watch how this shit of a country sinks down

Hmmm

, I can't laugh jare

Reno is mad obviously. He needs to change his supplier.

So Iweka, Iweegbuna, Iwenwa, Iweogu, etc,all Igbo names from root Igbo word "Iwe" meaning "anger" are Bini words?
Ikenga the Igbo society of uprightness is a Bini invention?

Many are mad in Nigeria, few are roaming.

I don't blame Reno. This is the result of Anioma years of licking Bini ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05d287NGqp8&feature=youtu.be

Why does Benin wants to be attached with Igbo by all means. They are fighting for a presence when they have none. Chisus. Igbo slaves and he didn't go further east to conquer, was he that weak.

Igbo land had resources, but he still stayed in that small Bini kingdom. He has not finished with West at that time, it was East he was facing.

Reno Reno the Itsekiri man.

angelfallz:
Dear Nonny,

Itsekiris and the Binis had Igbo slaves for centuries before British colonialism. After the British banned slavery, we were forced to set them free. Some of them returned to Igbo land, others remained with us and gradually formed a new language called ******* (an Itsekiri word which we used to call them while they were our slaves). There are about 200,000 ******* still with us.

(I will not reveal the name of this tribe called *******, because I do not want to offend them, but they are in Delta state)

If they speak, an Igbo person will understand some of what they say, while Itsekiris, Binis and even European Portuguese people will understand them too. Those of them who chose to return to Igbo land have Igbo names that sound like Itsekiri or Benin names, for example Iweka, and many names beginning with Oba or Iken.

That is how some of our names and also Benin names went into the Igbo lexicon.
We have century old carvings in Ode Itsekiri and Benin depicting Igbo slaves, which we sold to the Portuguese via our ancient pre colonial port called Ogidigben. The grandfather of the present Oba of Benin showed some of these carvings to the world famous British anthropologist, Sir David Attenborough in 1973. The video is on YouTube. When you see the carving, even you will have no doubt that the person is Igbo.

Because of the sheer number of Igbo slaves we sold at Ogidigben, the Portuguese named the town Escravos, which means slave in Portuguese. Till today, many people still call Ogidigben Escravos.

We also sold slaves in another town called Burutu, which the Portuguese renamed Forcados (meaning forced labourer, which is a nicer way of saying slaves).

Obviously, I am not too proud of this history. I wish it never happened. History is not always pleasant. I am only revealing it to you because you are getting the wrong idea of linkages between our two peoples.

https://www.facebook.com/111647580740689/posts/312326730672772/

Reno's explanation on how the Igbos came to be slaves of the Bini and Itsekiri
https://www.facebook.com/111647580740689/posts/312362820669163/

The ABOVE post from Reno Omokri is a historical FACT from the archives (because a large number of slaves from the Ibo interior East of river Niger were brought in as captives by Benin and Igala merchants and sold off at major Itsekiri slave ports of Ugborodo, Ogidigben areas and Aboh in Delta State as well. BUT it's the river estuaries around the Ugborodo and Ogidigben area that was referred to by the Portuguese as "Escravos" meaning "slaves" in the 1500s. Along the years, the oil companies such as Chevron which operates in that area and NNPCL started referring WRONGLY to the oil and gas-rich Ugborodo as Escravos which completely FALSE and Ugborodo indigenes have condemned the wrong naming in official documentations of these oil companies.



More Sources BELOW:

1] Guardian NG
Ugborodo is NOT Escravos
By : Oritsegbemi O. Omatete
Date: 21 May 2019
=>https://guardian.ng/features/culture/ugborodo-is-not-escravos/


2] Still on the Ogidigben EPZ fiasco

1 Jan 2015 — As it were, the Ijaws, have been opposed to the EPZ being named after Ogidigben community which gives the identity of its location in Itsekiri homeland that is deservedly so. They demanded that since the project site also included some Ijaw communities in the Escravos, a claim that is absolutely FALSE, it should be called Ogidigben-Gbaramutu EPZ, to give it both Itsekiri and Ijaw location identity.
=>https://thenationonlineng.net/still-ogidigben-epz-fiasco/

I believe Reno's assertion was properly addressed when he first made it. Reno (as he almost always does) gets his history wrong. We should stop treating "social media 'celebrities" as if they are experts on anything.

We know a lot about the slave trade in Itsekiri kingdom and the ethnicities of the people who were sold. They were Urhobo (the largest group sold by the Itsekiri), and a smaller but significant number were Edo and Yoruba.

See the writings of historians like PC Lloyd and Bradbury, quoted in this post below.

https://www.nairaland.com/6665811/igbo-slaves-among-itsekiri#104024609

If there were any Igbo slaves sold through Itsekiri, the number was relatively small and not very significant. Igbo slaves were generally sold through Bonny and Calabar. The ports of the Itsekiri area handled mainly Urbobo and then Edo and Yoruba slaves, as is attested by the sources. Reno is a rabble rouser and not a historian.