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| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Maxi112: 6:55am On Dec 10, 2021 |
gifted21:see mentions everywhere! : |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Nobody: 8:53am On Dec 10, 2021*. Modified: 9:14am On Dec 10, 2021 |
ThickSharon123:Lol, you don't know anything. Your comment reeks of emotional outburst. I showed you an excerpt from the 1800s by pepple and crowther telling the Brits whom they are. And ofcourse the ibos are famous for renaming other places. They called KALABARI Bom, they called OKOLOMA okoloBA. Then the Brits named OKOLOMA Bonny, then the ibos not able to pronounce renamed it ebane,ubani etc. I showed you the excerpt didn't I? Lol, stop being emotional. The IBO people are known for growing crops etc, not dwelling in the creeks and swamps and fishing. Even long before slavery and palm oil trade, the ijo tribes has been making salt and selling to the Benin empire(that's how ancient we are) To prove you know nothing, you called wike, please wike is not our leader no is he from any ijo tribe or clan, you're just being fed nonesense by Ekealterego, Igboid and the other online propagandist. The IBOS never was one to choose thick forest and agricultural lands for swamp and fishing (One of your goons said it himself) even back then, it were coastal dwellers who had to paddle up stream to come to the hinterlands to buy the crops the Igbo grew because the ibos dreaded the death and sickness associated with the creek, now all of a sudden y'all are lovers of Creek. No one hates the ibos, my mother is IBO, ijo men are notorious for marrying IBO women, even all of my exes we're ibos, the one I'm with now is IBO, so why do I hate them? I don't understand. Stop being bitter. Stop getting wet for lies. The IBOS started really doing business in Bonny after slave trade was ditched for Palm oil trade, prior to the palm oil trade, the only ibos in Bonny were slaves. Crowther and pepple stated it, and they showed us the names ibos renamed places. Go through that excerpt carefully without sentimental attachment. And after going through it, I want you to answer this question, *Why were there ibos slaves just as pepple and crowther said?? Reason am * Why were they enculturated in Bonny by the ijo clan of okoloma ? Imagine okwarazurumba mbanaso renamed Jubo jubogha (why would something like that happen if ibos owned OKOLOMA?? * If OKOLOMA belonged to the ibos, why did crowther and pepple highlight that Bonny is called OKOLOMA by THEMSELVES But is called okoloBA OBANI IBANI by the ibos (who are the THEMSELVES? who are the ibos or IBO slaves?? Thicksharon123 and Ekealterego and igboid and the rest of your goons have been dodging this question like matrix dodging bullets. Y'all will dodge this again But thicksharon123 if you answer this questions, then Bonny and Opobo belongs to ibos, LMAO.
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| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by JANK23H(m): 9:10am On Dec 10, 2021 |
Anonymous15:Binaowei pasisi ignore those people.They want this senseless thread on for as long as possible. I've gone through Crow's work and all they did was to present snippets that appeared to favour them.They are terrible liars. Just ignore and let them quote themselves with their conjectures and lies. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Nobody: 9:16am On Dec 10, 2021 |
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| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Igboid: 10:10am On Dec 10, 2021*. Modified: 8:46pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Anonymous15:You are mentally unstable or challenged. See how dumb your question is: If Ogidi are Igbos, why did Taylor highlight that they call themselves INWELLE? If Egbema in Rivers State are Igbos, why did Baike emphasize that they call themselves ALLENSAW(Alinso). It's a stupid and pointless question. 1 because Bonny calling themselves Okoloma has nothing to do with IJAW. By this point in history, the Ijaws were already known and they were called the people of JOS! Why didn't Bonny call themselves the people of JOS? Because they were not! Does Bonny calling themselves Okoloma provide any information on their Igbo or Ijaw origin? Nope! Did Pepple and Bonny people provide the Colonials information about their origin? Yes! They did to Captain Crow and to Baike. Look at what they said here! ( attached pic) They point blank said they descended from Igbo. At no point in history was it ever recorded that Bonny or Okoloma were linked with the people of Jos, the only other non Igbo people that Bonny descended from are the people of Brass, who we know are independent from the people of Jos! We have tasked you to provide this info if there were any, but it's been 70 pages and you couldn't All you do is dwelling on irrelevant things as diversionary tactics, you deceive no one but yourselves.
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| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Igboid: 10:16am On Dec 10, 2021 |
As for the Igbos not liking swamps of the Niger because of diseases. I noticed you have been quoting me out of context. I said that Igbos on the majority didn't like the Niger Delta areas because of the high death rates associated with river borne diseases like malaria and co there. I also noted that Igbos who were not high ranked in their homeland, who committed one abomination or the other and were banished or those who had to flee their homeland from enemies, all headed towards the Delta. It's a land only favoured by Igbos who didn't have the option of staying in dry and warm rainforest of Igbo mainland. I never said that Igbos were not in the Delta as Aboriginals! They were in Bonny and in Opobo and New Calabar as Aboriginals! Way before the pirates from the people of Jos came canoe paddling from their original homeland in far away Kolokuma! The Bonny and New Calabar aboriginals who found themselves in Sierre Leone, identified themselves by their hometowns as Obane-Igbo and Bom-Igbo. New Calabar was at this point a new territory inhabited by a people of Multiethnic origin all speaking their Individual languages. And like Ekealterago noted, Igbos, Ijoid and Ibibiod (from Andoni part) people were in New Calabar at this point. But the King was of Igbo descent and he wasn't a former slave, he was an Aboriginal. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Nobody: 12:09pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Igboid:Lol, look at the 13th line of your excerpt which reads "The eboes who are from a neighboring country..." Open your eyes, I've always said you have jaundice. Look at the 13th line of the first paragraph. Comprehension is a difficult thing for you more especially. And the brass people are Nembe people, and I am a Nembe man, and we trace our ancestry to ijo. Still you failed woefully to answer my question on why Bonny is called OKOLOMA by themselves and okoloBA, ebane etc by the ibos. And why were ibos slaves? Why were they enculturated to answer names that weren't igbotic. You're using ogidi and inwelle as instance but does that change the fact that ogidi sprung from Igbo? No! We all know this because the dialect are similar. You are bringing this logic, but don't want to bring the same logic because it will also link OKOLOMA or the brass people to their ancestry just as ogidi is to Igbo. The double standards is sickening. I again ask you, Why were they enculturated to answer okoloama-ijo names. Why not okwarazurumba mbanaso? Why change it to Jubo jubogha? Yet you dodged again like matrix. Take a look at the 13th line of your Excerpt (the first paragraph) It clearly stated that the eboes ARE FROM A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY. I will unfollow this online grabbing thread and allow you all to continue in your foolishness. Bye bye. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Eke40seven(m): 12:13pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Anonymous15:The question, where was Ijaw/Ijo/Ejo mentioned in all this? You are arguing about Okoloma and Obane, in the same book. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Igboid: 12:18pm On Dec 10, 2021*. Modified: 2:07pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Anonymous15:Everyone came from somewhere! Why was it called New Calabar? Because the people came from old Calabar! The Brass minorities in Bonny also came from Brass homeland in Bayelsa. No one falls from the sky. Common sense bro. What matters is that the Igbo Aboriginals in Bonny met the land empty. They were the first arrivals and produced the first kings! They were native to the land before the start of slave trade. We all know that Bonny sprung from Igbo, because Bonny still speak Igbo as mother tongue today. We know that Igbo spoken in Bonny is not the Igbo of the Isu( who formed the bulk of Igbo Slaves) it's the Igbo of Ndoki, ie the Igbo of the Aboriginals of Bonny! The Igbo slaves in Bonny was forced to lose their Isu Igbo dialect and adopt the Igbo(Ndoki) of Bonny Igbo Aboriginals! The names Bonny bear are not Ijaw names. You don't see those names in Bayelsa. Most Bonny names are corrupted English names. That are perculiar to Bonny people. It's also funny that an Ijaw now care about language and names, when these two criteria have always been watered down by you expansionists in your land grab schemes. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by 9Pluto(op): 12:27pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Eke40seven:Ignore that mischievous criminal. The Igbos were the first inhabitants of Ebane alongside the Brass people who were NOT Ijaws! Even at that the author also described the Brass people as coming from their country North-west of Bonny. Ubani/ibani was the igbo dialect in Bonny. The Kings of Bonny were igbos The natives igbos The slave owners igbos etc Chief Fubara who the author met was identified as a stranger and not a native of Bonny. Yet the same Bonny is peopled by Fubara's today, they had better start shopping for a new name. Let those miscreants and their allies keep deceiving themselves at the appropriate time, the Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow of Liverpool will be their greatest nemesis. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Putindbutt(m): 12:49pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Anonymous15:Aside other questions which ibos have refused to answer, the ones in bold, they have failed to answer. The same question has been asked more than 1000× on this thread, yet they never answered. In fact, they have been blinded by cataract of the eyes. Their modus operandi is to twist and twist and twist the narratives. For the ones that they could not twist, they ignore. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Igboid: 12:57pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
9Pluto:Exactly. You see the Fubaras all over Internet telling their Igbo hosts in Bonny that Igbo Language in Bonny came from slave trade. Trying hard to impose their dead Kalabari Ijoid language on Bonny Igbos. No be juju be that? |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by 9Pluto(op): 3:04pm On Dec 10, 2021*. Modified: 6:28pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Anonymous15:The only place the word acculturation/enculturated ever appeared and existed is in ijaw doctored media and literature. So much it has become a figment of gullible people's imagination. It has no basis in real life. There was no such record in history because it never existed. The reason why the Jaja dynasty won the Supreme Court judgment, is exactly because of this same reason. All their accounts of history is doctored. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Alabo7978(m): 5:08pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Eke40seven:They were all autonomous (calabari, Bonny, brass, kula, bille, etc) that was why Europeans addressed them by their names and not covering them up as ijo, but they all know that they descended from ijo. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Alabo7978(m): 5:10pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
9Pluto:Enculturation was never a myth. Ijo clans still practice it today. If it was a myth, why did okwarazurumba mbanaso change his name to Jubo jubogha?? You're seeing facts before your eyes, you're calling it myth. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Alabo7978(m): 5:13pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Igboid:Look at the bolded. *You called calabari ijoid language (thank God you know) * You now claim it is being imposed on bonny. But the excerpt from pepple and crowther stated it is what was spoken even by the IBO slaves, and that it is the same with new calabar (calabari) Look at it very well. Whenever you're riled up, your true nature gets revealed. The language wasn't imposed, CLEARLY look at it, I has been the spoken language. Igboid compromising again. #thewebyouweavewilltangleyou
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| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Alabo7978(m): 5:23pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
9Pluto:You know nothing, The region where the Europeans called brass was partly Nembe and partly twon I am a Nembe man, and we all trace our ancestry to ijo. Sorry, 9pluto from abakiliki can't tell me my ORIGIN! |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Igboid: 5:36pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Alabo7978:You are clutching on straws. At that point in history, Kalabari was not just an Ijoid speaking people, they were multilingual. We know they had atleast Igbos, and Ibibiod tribes there then all living together. They are actually called New Calabar because they migrated from Calabar. So the original stock there were non Ijoid. The King of New Calabar was an Igbo by the time Baike and Crow was around the neighborhood. We know this because the Igbos native to New Calabar who found themselves in Sierre Leone, identified themselves as Bom-Ibo! They spoke and knew they were Igbos and identified with other Igbos in Sierre Leone. In it's formative years, most clans in what you call the Eastern Ijaw today, ie New Calabar, Okirika were a multilingual and cultural people consisting of natives from Igbo, Ibibiod and Ijoid tribes. For some reason years of mixing resulted in Ijoids coming tops in New Calabar and Okirika, though in some parts of Okirika, the Ibibiod (Obulom/Abuloma) and Igboids (Okujagu) managed to create enclaves where they retained their language while the rest of them were assimilated by Ijoids. But in Bonny and Opobo, the Igbo Aboriginals helped by Igbo slaves managed to dominate th Islands totally and obliterated any non-Igbo presence. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by 9Pluto(op): 6:34pm On Dec 10, 2021*. Modified: 7:46pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Alabo7978:Maybe the same way you also enculturated Jonathan an Ogbia man. Until you post a European authored account, your decades of falsehood in about to tear down right before you. Ijaws are recent migrants East of the delta, but rather than settle amicably, they are rather on several land grabbing missions (Bonny, Kalabari (New Calabar), Okrika, Opobo, Andoni, Ndoki, Obolo etc) You may have succeeded with the Itshekiri probably because there was no record. But you see this other ones are a classic effort in futility. Keep building castles in the air. There are incontrovertible records. Your only solution is to try and delete all available historical data. Think of it like formatting the entire internet. Until you successfully do so, your efforts will continue to be futile. You can also ask another fraud to author a revised edition of history. The internet is the greatest undoing of you and your co-travelers. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Pass11: 7:16pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
9Pluto:Nwanne you guys are wasting time here educating this people, what is still saving them is Nigeria. What happen between Nigeria and cameroon will happen to them. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Pass11: 7:22pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Bakassi peninsular is a 1,600-kilometre land boundary between Nigeria, near the city of Calabar in Cross River State, and the Rio del Ray estuary in Cameroon. It was an area inhabited by citizens of both Nigeria and Cameroon. Due to population growth, which was once put at between 150,000 and 300,000 people, and the attendant increase in human activities on the two sides, the boundary that existed between the two countries became hazy. Over time, the ownership of this area, said to be very rich in diverse mineral resources, soon became an issue of conflict between Nigeria and Cameroon. While Nigeria argued that it had been in possession of the area in dispute and that its citizens were predominant in the area, Cameroon maintained that regardless of who had been in occupation, the land had belonged to it since the colonial era. It added that the British ceded Bakassi to Germany through the Anglo-German agreement of 1913 and that Germany ceded it to France and then France ceded same to it (Cameroon). The conflict strained the relationship between Nigeria and Cameroon severely, to the extent that there were military confrontations between the two countries. Few years after, precisely in 1994, Cameroon took the matter, among other issues, to the International Court of Criminal Justice, also known as the World Court, at The Hague, for adjudication. The matter was in that court for eight years, and at the end, the court ruled on October 10, 2002 that Bakassi belonged to Cameroon, relying on evidence available, especially the Anglo-German agreement. This decision did not go down well with Nigeria, prompting the United Nations to set up the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission, so as to avoid further confrontations or even war between the two countries. In 2008, after series of dialogue, President Olusegun Obasanjo officially ceded Bakassi to Cameroon by signing the Green Tree Agreement produced by the commission. Interestingly, a Nigerian, Prince Bola Ajibola, was one of the 17 judges who presided over the matter at the World Court, and he also led the delegation of Nigeria to that commission. Prince Ajibola, who is 82 years old now, tells TUNDE AJAJA in this interview about their sitting at The Hague and other issues about Bakassi It’s been 14 years since the International Court of Justice gave the judgement that ceded Bakassi to Cameroon and you happened to be one of the judges that adjudicated on the matter. What comes to your mind when you remember that episode? Let us thank God and people with conscience and good understanding that Nigeria handled the matter the way it did. And I thank God that I played that singular role for Nigeria. In my life, I won’t forget it; never. When I look at some activities going on in Nigeria now, I keep congratulating myself from within. I’m not in the habit of relaying it or playing back the record, because it was a terrible time; an unfortunate time, but I did my best as a true and conscientious, reasonable Nigerian, saving this nation. I had that opportunity of saving this nation and I did. [b]Some people feel Nigeria should not have lost that case because it had been in occupation of that land for long and a number of the residents there are Nigerians. What made Nigeria to lose that case? All the documents and evidence before the court were all pointing to the ownership of that place as being part of Cameroon. Also, our people in Nigeria had also said that we did not own Bakassi. In fact, our then Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Teslim Elias, also made a statement that Bakassi was not part of Nigeria. That was our own minister. But even before our minister said that, Jaja Wachuku, who was then our Foreign Affairs minister, already said it two years after we got our independence; 1962, that Bakassi was part and parcel of Cameroon. They had all said so, but that was not all. Our maps all indicated that all that area of Bakassi was not part of Nigeria. It was after Cameroon had taken the matter to court and we had already started going to court that we changed our map. The original map that we had about that area was carved into Cameroon. So, those were also issues. Years ago, Germany bought that part of Bakassi and when the land was being partitioned, after taking care of Germany out of the whole enclave, it fell into the hand of France and France ceded it to Cameroon. That was it, and that was part of what was contained in the judgement that was given in favour of Cameroon at that time. But a lot of all those were argued in favour of Nigeria, against Cameroon, when I wrote my dissenting judgement.[/b] Not everybody knew you wrote a dissenting judgement. What was your position? I wrote my own dissenting judgement against the judgement of the majority of my colleagues in the court. I made it clear in my judgement that in the judgement the court gave on Burkina Faso, if you have possession for a certain period of time, you are as good as having the ownership of the place. That was my position and I told the rest of my colleagues who all favoured Bakassi land as belonging to Cameroon. But 17 of us sat and about two or three of us gave dissenting opinions. We were in the minority and it wasn’t a number that could make it. That is the dead end of it, unfortunately. When we were asked to give an explanation on our positions, it would just be a short statement. You once said that Nigeria has a lot to be thankful for in that case despite losing Bakassi. What is there to be happy about? Judgement was given at the International Court of Justice against our holding on to Bakassi but the judgement of the World Court was generally in our favour, except of course the matter of Bakassi. But Bakassi was not the only matter Cameroon brought before the court against Nigeria. There were about six major issues brought to the court by Cameroon, including criminal offence; that Nigeria unjustifiably took over its land. That was defeated, I mean Nigeria won. Again, they fought us on some land inside Nigeria which they had seized and occupied in the eastern part, which we got back. Also, there was the very toughly contested issue of maritime boundary in which they tried to acquire a large portion of southern Nigeria into Cameroon, but they also failed in that because we really fought that seriously and we won that too and the land was retrieved from them. So, as a matter of fact, we gained because they lost most of these matters; four out of five, but the issue of Bakassi was a different kettle of fish. In Bakassi, there are still the remnants of Cameroonians staying there and part of that area was at that time occupied by Nigerians. So, Cameroon was still in possession and that also explains why those in that part of Nigeria still have some representations in some quarters, due to the strip of land that is within Nigeria. There is no problem about that and Cameroon is not even claiming that. It is what Nigeria calls its own Bakassi. People have also expressed some concern that the part Nigeria lost to Cameroon is an oil-rich region. Isn’t that painful? It is all nonsense to say that Nigeria lost to Cameroon. What did Nigeria lose to Cameroon? According to the Latin phrase, ‘Nemo dat quod non habet,’ meaning you cannot lose what you don’t have. Bakassi was never yours. Your own people like those I mentioned earlier said it wasn’t yours. Why should you take to yourself what does not belong to you. But apart from all that, if you look at my judgement, I still argued with a case from Burkina Faso, which came to our court, and relying on that, I said having the possession should be able to confer on us the ownership of that part of Cameroon. Quite seriously speaking, that wasn’t an opinion shared by all the other judges of the court. It was just a minority position and that was why it was a dissenting judgement. Some people feel Nigeria was hasty in giving up the land, and that it could have delayed it. What could have happened if we hadn’t done that? The fact is that, perhaps till now, we would still have been at war with Cameroon. All that someone like me and others did was not to allow such a thing to happen. We would have been at war. We prevented that, with all the roles that we played with others, having regard to the committee we initiated in Nigeria as part of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission. That was what prevented it. There were reports that Cameroon had already procured some weapons from Russia to use in engaging Nigeria. Do you think it was that bad? It was not only Russia. Precisely what is now going on in Syria is exactly the situation we would have been in here, all along, and perhaps till now. Because not only Russia, China, France and Malaysia were with Cameroon, some other countries were standing in-between, watching when the whole matter would start. In fact, when we got to America, I went to Washington on this matter and the authorities in America at that time were really astounded that the war had not started, and they told me that the war would soon start in that place. That was it. We tried our best to prevent the war from happening and it did not happen. It would not have been a war between ourselves; it would have been a war between Nigeria, on one side, and Cameroon, China, Malaysia, France and Russia on the other side. Where would Nigeria have been? We would have been exactly another Syria. We would have been ruined. But with the commission that was set up, that did not happen. This country was saved from total war, an annihilating war, a kind of Armageddon, a kind of endless war that would have engulfed everybody here because the nations that would have fought the war were there waiting. They have done it with the spring wars. They went to Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and now they are dealing death and destruction on Syria. Their motive is simple, to destroy and obliterate the whole of these nations, all in the North and all Islamic nations and testing their new weapons just to ensure absolute destruction. So, we were able to prevent that. It seems Nigeria has not given up on that loss and so much has been said on whether the judgement can be appealed or not. What is the true situation? There is no room for appeal at the International Court of Justice. What is given is given and cannot be undone. You may ask the court to explain the judgement it already gave. That is how definite the judgement of the court is. They don’t sit on appeal on their matter; it is never allowed. They could review or explain, but they will never set up an appellate body to decide again what has already been decided, and whatever judgement had already been given is final and binding. That judgement that was given on October 10, 2002 is final and there is nothing we can do about it. You once said even if Nigeria wants to apply to the court to review or explain the judgement, there are also stringent conditions. What about that? Yes, there are stringent conditions, but the court will only strictly interpret the content of its judgement, which is the decision of the majority. A number of the affected residents of Bakassi are from Cross River and Akwa Ibom states. Now that they are in Cameroon, do they have free entry into Nigeria? I think they have the right to come to Nigeria and the right to be Nigerians in Nigeria. Let me tell you certain things about this situation. Nigeria is big, within Africa. On the upper part, we have Niger Republic, and close to that upper part towards the east, we have Chad. In the south, we have Equatorial Guinea and we were able to settle our problems with Equatorial Guinea. We also had problems with Chad but we were able to settle the area whereby the eastern part went to Chad and the western part of it came to Nigeria. But a lot of the boundary land from Chad up to the South in Equatorial Guinea had already been occupied and taken by Cameroon, but we were able to get all that ceded back to Nigeria. So, the people who were deprived of their land before then were able to have their land back. That was the good effect of the commission that tried to ensure peace between Cameroon and Nigeria and we did that excellently well. Just only three Nigerians have served in the World Court, how did you get the nomination? Yes, I think about three of us; Teslim Elias, Dadi Onyeama and myself have served in the court. Adolphus Karibi-White served at the International Criminal Court. Before getting to that seat, there were challenges. To get to that status, you need to have very good character. Being brilliant is not enough; there is need for sound character and one must be prompt, which is very important to people in other parts of the world. On how I got there or how the nomination happened, that might require writing a book, because you cannot boast of having the ability, capability or the know-how of getting to a place like that, regardless of your knowledge. You could possibly try but there wasn’t a definite way to it. If you are thinking of being employed by a bank, you could possibly have started by studying Banking in the university, and possibly have the feeling that that could get you to any bank. That is normal, natural and possible. But to get to the International Court of Justice, two plus two may not give you four. It could be one, two or even 20. After the death of Elias, who was then the president of the court, someone mentioned it to me but I told the person I wasn’t too ambitious. Elias died on August 14, 1991 and after that, they were looking for someone who could stand for the election to replace him. One day, Ambassador Oluyemi Adeniji came to our office at the Ministry of Justice and told me to be up and doing with regards to the post of a judge at the World Court that had become vacant and that we must be part of the election. I was the Minister then. So, I called someone in my office, known as Deinde, and told him to prepare a letter for the CJN, Mohammed Bello. I felt he was the right person to go there. I said he should offer the CJN if he would be interested to go to the World Court. Deinde went back to his office and wrote that I was the most qualified to go to the World Court and he wrote extensively on my achievements and why I was qualified. That was not what I sent him. At that time, I was in the International Law Commission, which is always where they get the materials to go to the court from. I got the paper he prepared, not knowing what he wrote, and headed for the office of the Chief Justice. I was about getting there when I opened the paper and saw that he wrote about me instead of a letter of offer to the CJN. I kept the paper and discussed the matter with the CJN verbally and I told him why he should be the one to go. He said I was the right person to go to the court and he said he would mention it to the President (Gen. Ibrahim Babangida) and he did. That was how we started. The struggle was very tough, but thank God for His grace. Like I said earlier, I thank God for the role I was able to play while I was there. Do you recall other notable experiences you had there? Before I got there, I had been involved in a lot of adjudicatory and judicial matters all over the world, particularly Paris, for international arbitration matters. And, from that time, I have learnt the European’s adherence to time and the way they worship time. To them, time determines who is in the third world, who is in the backward world and who is in the world. They never considered us to be part of anything. As far as they are concerned, we are from undeveloped countries because of our attitude to time. It was when we started making noise that they started describing us as developing countries. In fact, in their books, we are under-developed countries. And they started judging us from our attitude to time. Let the people know that fact. I knew that from the beginning of my services among them. Therefore, I was never late to any of their assignments and meetings. The most serious part of this matter came while I became a judge of the ICJ. For example, they would write to us that there would be a meeting of the judges at a certain time and we should all come in and attend the meeting at 9:15am. Usually, I would get there precisely at 9:15am. People need to take note of all these things so that they don’t go and mess up when they get there. I was always getting there at that time and they would all have been seated and discussing the matter of the day. I would then see myself as someone coming late. But in the midst of them, there was one I had chosen to be my good friend and mentor, from China. I went to meet him and I asked what was happening because I knew I was never late, yet, before I arrived and before the time they set for the meeting, they would have started the meeting. I asked him if they gave themselves another time, different from my own. He was 90 then and I was still running close to be 60, so he said as far as the court was concerned, 9:15am meant 9:00am because you must be there before the time on your letter, urging you to be there 15 minutes before, and as a matter of fact, if you want to keep the time of the court, you must be there before 9:00am, and not later than 9:15am. That was what he told me. He said that happened to be one of the reasons why Europeans do refer to us as people from under-developed world because to them, we had not developed. He said with such late-coming, somebody else could have seen such a person as being unreliable, undependable, unreasonable when it comes to keeping to time, and that would militate against anything they had to do with you in that court or outside it. The second meeting after that time, they noticed that I had got the message. They never told me anything, they just smiled about it, but I knew that they got the idea that I must have been told by someone what the meaning of 9:15 was. From that time on, I was always there at 9:00am. So, it was an interesting time. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Ekealterego: 9:22pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Alabo7978:Stop confusing others who know no history. Here are accounts from same book describing Ijoh people. The book differentiated Ejo from Wakrike people. See the last account, Ijos were spoken of as a well separate people.
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| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by 9Pluto(op): 10:01pm On Dec 10, 2021*. Modified: 11:10pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Ekealterego:Take a another look at those pictures you posted, did you notice the ijos had no King? Meanwhile, King Pepple was already a King in Bonny at this time. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Ekealterego: 10:10pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
9Pluto:Your hawk eye yet works it's magic. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by OfoIgbo: 10:22pm On Dec 10, 2021*. Modified: 10:42pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Anonymous15:According to Dr. Baikie, it was the Brass people that called Bonny Okoloba. The natives of Bonny town called it Okoloma. And we all know the natives are chiefly from the Ndoki Igbo region |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by OfoIgbo: 10:38pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
9Pluto:Very interesting. So they had no kings. Tomorrow Ijaws will tell us they invented the AMANYANABO culture. Nonsense and ingredients |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Nobody: 11:30pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
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| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Nobody: 11:34pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
Abeg when Ijaws go hold meeting for Opobo, make una give us update. Make una leave the attache by force people from abakaliki and Nsukka to dey wail on Nairaland ![]() |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Alabo7978(m): 12:53am On Dec 11, 2021 |
Ekealterego:You need to start quoting linguist and not captains of slave ships who anchored in the coasts and let the coastal kings and chiefs source for slaves. Start quoting linguist Ekealterego. Slave captains were uneducated, when you talk about a dialect, quote linguist. I see you as the most intelligent persons amongst your clowns but my problem with you is that you consult journals of slave ships. It's like enquiring from a pharmacist the anatomy of the human body, he won't be deep enough. |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Alabo7978(m): 12:58am On Dec 11, 2021 |
OfoIgbo:Liar! my region falls under the old brass region, we call curlew okolain. Stop lieng! The IBOS called OKOLOMA okoloBA Look at the document by crowther and king PEPPLE himself
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| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Alabo7978(m): 1:08am On Dec 11, 2021 |
9Pluto:Dem dey call dog eye hawk eye. We all had kings; more especially the central ijo clans. In Nembe which had two kingdoms, the mingi dynasty ruled ogbolomabiri, while the ogbodo dynasty ruled bassambiri, in obioku the Wari dynasty ruled. Nembe when unified even had kings even more earlier than Bonny. The 6th king of the undivided mornachy of united Nembe was king ogio in 1632, now imagine the date of the first king. The bille's had the jike dynasty. You want me to go on?? |
| Re: The True Identity Of Bonny/Opobo(UBANI) People Facts Versus Fiction by Alabo7978(m): 1:16am On Dec 11, 2021 |
9Pluto:Lol, Dr koeller a German already said the ibos were slaves, Crowther and pepple said so too and that the Bonny speak the kalabari Language Gerrit Dimmendaal a dutch linguist has already grouped the ijoid Languages, Williamson and blench who are British linguists also upholds Gerrit Dimmendaal. All major linguist linked the similarity but 9pluto is bringing out journals from a slave ship captain, and you wonder why Encyclopedia BRITANNICA etc dumped all of those stupid journals. Las Las you daft I swear. |
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