₦airaland Forum

iamuyiekpen:
Ijaw Youths in Western Zone, comprising Delta, Edo and Ondo states have fumed over the alleged persistent attack by Obazuma community on Ikoro community, an Ijaw settlement in Edo State.

The Western Zone IYC had accused the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki of quietly supervising what they described as ethnic cleansing against the Ijaws in Edo State.

This was contained in a communique issued at the end of an emergency stakeholders meeting held at Sapele on the 7th of August 2023 signed by the trio of Dr. Doubra Collins Okotete, Chairman, Comrade Olu-Derimon Omaghomi, Secretary and Comrade Lugard Izoukumor, Information Officer, a copy of which was sent to The Liberator Newspapers Worldwide.

However, the communique had informed Governor Godwin Obaseki and other powerful stakeholders in Edo State that the Ijaws in Delta, Ondo, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom are watching the alleged ethnic cleansing that is ongoing under his reign as Governor of the state.

The communique reads in full below:

A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED IN AN EMERGENCY MEETING BY THE IJAW YOUTH COUNCIL (IYC) WESTERN ZONE: [Delta, Edo and Ondo States] WITH FEW STAKEHOLDERS IN SAPELE, ON THE 7 OF AUGUST, 2021.

IKORO/ OBAZUWA CRISIS, HISTORY WILL JUDGE GOVERNOR OBASEKI, IN HIS QUIET SOLIDARITY WITH OBAZUWA TO EXTINCT IKORO

1. The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Western Zone convened an emergency meeting with few critical stakeholders in Council, at Sapele to deliberate the consistent marginalization of the Ijaws in Edo State, particularly the communal clash between Obazuwa Community and Ikoro an Ijaw Community.

2. The IYC frowns on the unwarranted invasion, wanton destruction of lives and property in Ikoro Community, which is the ancestral headquarters of Olodiama Kingdom, in Edo State that is amongst the many belated long list of carnage, mayhem, and premeditated plan of ethnic cleansing to wipeout the Ijaws of Edo State.

3. In numerous correspondences and press statements it will interest the public to note, Council has called on the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki to intervene in the crisis for peace and amity to be restored, because Council believes peace is the only panacea to sustainable economic development.

4. Council so far has studied and reviewed the claims and counter claims by Obazuwa Community wherein they erroneously stated that the Ijaws are settlers in Ikoro in their doctored history and quest in collaboration of the Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki and other powerful people in Edo State to extinct the Ijaw people. Yesterday, it was Gelegele. Today, it is Ikoro.

5. The IYC is therefore astonished with the fact that, despite, our people’s [Ijaw people in Edo] contributions politically and economically Governor Obaseki will indulge an ethnic pogrom by exposing himself, whereby quietly supervising the ongoing ethnic cleansing.

6. Thus, Council alerts the world to hold the Edo State Government responsible on the ongoing ethnic cleansing that is quietly perpetuated and supervised by Mr. Godwin Obaseki and other powerful people in Edo State, supporting Obazuwa Community against Ikoro an Ijaw Community.

7. Furthermore, the IYC notifies Governor Obaseki and those powerful people in Edo State that:

(i) From Delta to Bayelsa, from Rivers to Akwa-Ibom and Ondo States that Ijaw people are watching, and we will resist any attempt to subdue and suppress our people and Communities in line with constitutional provisions of the law of the land, as well as in retrospect to the motto of the IYC: “resource control and self-determination by every means possible.

(ii) That Ijaw people have never been conquered, and we will never be conquered by Obazuwa Community or the Edo State Government.

(iii) However, that as Ijaw people even though we are peace lovers, we can legitimately protect Ijaw people because no one has the monopoly of violence, hence, we are not intimidated by a satellite hot such as Obazuwa Community regardless of the support the Edo State Government accord them.

In conclusion, we remind Governor Obaseki that although he is the Governor of Edo State, but when history will judge him, history will judge him as the Governor who quietly supported an ethnic cleansing by the atrocities of Obazuwa Community against Ikoro people and by extension the Ijaw people of Edo State.

Signed: for IYC Western Zone

Dr. Doubra Collins Okotete, Chairman

Comrade Olu-Derimon Omaghomi, Secretary and Comrade Lugard Izoukumor, Information Officer.

P.S. where’s Captain8, Giftibo & a lot of y’all ijaw vagabonds here? Can you see we’ve started touching them? And we will make sure we finish y’all. There’s no Ikoro community in Edo rather it’s Iko & it’s under the dukedom of Obazuwa. Y’all are strangers & will remain strangers. When we done with you guys we will then use the military to finally evacuate you creek dwellers back to Gbaramatu & Bayelsa. Imagine a tenant wanting to be a landlord when the landlord is still alive? We are fucking you guys up again today & tomorrow & heaven will not fall.

iamuyiekpen:
if the ijaws want war we will give them a war. The problem with you ijaws is that you guys lack education. The case has already been settled at the Federal & Supreme Court level. Ijaws are strangers in Edo & they’ll die as strangers. Ijaw land doesn’t extend to Edo. Know your place. If you guys want to go to court we are ready. As a matter of fact, give us a date to appear. If the ijaws want to go to war they’ll get similar réponse. We will no longer tolerate your stupidity, hooliganism & foolishness.

godofuck231:
when was that ever , you don see beni de share land with anybody, do you know what it is to occupy any land in Benin, the beni empire spread across west Africa , it too time for the Europeans to realise this and found a reason to attack Benin empire , ijaws are fishermen tribes brought by the Britons to fish for the royal niger company ? The ijaws are Mende tribes acculturated across west Africa and increased in number and population with time , this still stands today as king Jaja of opobo is a link to this fact , the ijaws of Sierra Leone Liberia and Gambia drifted due to over population and settled in the swamps of the niger delta, a harsh terrain for other tribes and now claiming aboriginal rights to inland areas ,
Know your place before claims , not all people are daft or dumb to facts

DubaiLandLord1:
I'm not an Ijaw.

Edo state is a creation of the Nigerian state. Ikoro could have been part of Delta state. Edo state is not Benin kingdom

valirex:
Mum* no be una dey cry ethnic cleansing, una never see anything

Clown

valirex:
How can a human being be this usele*s

Ebi2233:
We only warn Bini.
As we've warned una oya try am now.

Instead of posting old post do it and we burn down tiny Bini tribe.

Una,busy dey post old post.
We will do worse to u guys than British did
They exiled the Oba, we will cut his head and pin on a stick in ringroad.
We've warned u guys, why una no try am again after the warning.
Already self, Ikoro militants been enter Obazuwa kill old nd young, as other Bini want put hand Ijaw come warn una.
Try am again, and we Ijaws of Bayelsa will take the cutting of the head of the Oba and pin it on a stick in ringroad roundabout, as a little part of our area in the fight.

DubaiLandLord1:
Your papa is more usele*ss du*ll boy

GreatBoss:
Frustrate from now till tomorrow, Ijaws are more than ibos in population.
Oya go and use that false population figure una write for book, go and use am and be collecting salaries from federal government while doing nothing.
U guys say Ibo get oil too oya do am now.

My salary just enter oya do una own too.

Federal government continue to massacre u guys ipob and ESN boyscouts.

valirex:
Clowns all mouth no action since 2017

ariesbull:
Some of us don't earn salary we pay salary.... Oya go guard that pipeline.. We need to the money to finish up 2 Niger bridge

Minority clans up and down... That phone you are using must have been sold to you by an agent igbo man


Take kaikai along

ariesbull:
Some of us don't earn salary we pay salary.... Oya go guard that pipeline.. We need to the money to finish up 2 Niger bridge

Minority clans up and down... That phone you are using must have been sold to you by an agent igbo man


Take kaikai along

Ebi2233:
Ijaw is more than Ibo in population.
But God bless you for this speech.
You are fully correct.
Igbo sold it for me in Lagos.

Ebi2233:
Why haven't your Oba collect rents from the people he call tenants.
Mr landlord go and collect rents, before you continue to talk to me.
I can only listen to you, when you've collected the rents from those u call tenants.

yorubakid:
Where is kinematics, hands are touching his people in Edo state and he still claiming PH boy

Ebi2233:
Why haven't your Oba collect rents from the people he call tenants.
Mr landlord go and collect rents, before you continue to talk to me.
I can only listen to you, when you've collected the rents from those u call tenants.

ariesbull:
No wahala.... Some butterflies sometimes you do feel they are birds


Please go guard that pipeline.... We need to finish 2nd Niger bridge


Don't let any crude oil or spill

yorubakid:
Where is kinematics, hands are touching his people in Edo state and he still claiming PH boy

ariesbull:
una get luck say na benin una dey deal with shaaaaa


Na why una fit talk

Ebi2233:
Ibo that Nigerian Army dey massacre like children.
Ipob and ESN boyscouts can do nothing.
Shey una say una get oil, oya force federal government to pay una every month too.

Ebi2233:
Why haven't your Oba collect rents from the people he call tenants.
Mr landlord go and collect rents, before you continue to talk to me.
I can only listen to you, when you've collected the rents from those u call tenants.

ariesbull:
As Igbo massacre boro and his ijaw clansmen

Ebi2233:
Ibo that Nigerian Army dey massacre like children.
Ipob and ESN boyscouts can do nothing.
Shey una say una get oil, oya force federal government to pay una every month too.

Ebi2233:
Ojukwu only fought with Boro and his village youths and couldn't hold Boro after 12 days of serious fighting, and he using so much tribes in his useless Eastern Region, and with all federal support coming to him, couldn't hold Boro and his village youths after 12 days of serious fighting.
Other Ijaws didn't even join hands.

DubaiLandLord1:
I'm not an Ijaw.

Edo state is a creation of the Nigerian state. Ikoro could have been part of Delta state. Edo state is not Benin kingdom