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Agugbadin:
Urhobo wayo, they are known for spreading lies both male and female.

Is this how desperate Ijaw have become? To change Urhobo w'ado to Urhobo wayo. Knowing full well that you Ijaws also greet yourselves Izon tu'ado?

mauchiz:
*THE REAL CAUSE OF THE CRISES AT OKUOMA COMMUNITY IN UGHELLI SOUTH L.G.A OF DELTA THAT LED TO MILITARY INVASION.*

Okuoma community is an Urhobo community in Ughelli south L.G.A located along the Forcados River. It shares boundaries with Akugbene and Okoloba communities, and both are Izon (Ijaw) speaking communities, located in Bomadi L.G.A of Delta State. Both communities have lived together peacefully for over 3 centuries now. Okuoma community is in Ewu-urphie clan of the Urhobo tribe of Delta State.
Their major occupation is farming and fishing.
There are other Urhobo communities along the Forcados River who all share boundary with the Izon speaking communities. They are also follows: Gbaregolor, Okuoma, Olota, Alagbabiri communities e.tc., all these communities are in Ughelli South L.G.A and they all share boundaries with the Izon speaking communities. These communities have lived with the Izon speaking communities for several centuries. They have had intermarriages, inter trades, among themselves for some centuries. We have several families who are from both tribes (Urhobo and Ijaw). In the olden days, for you to be crowned a king in Izon land, you must have your maternal root from the Urhobos. I don't know if that tradition is still in practice. I know some few Kings whose that maternal roots are from the Urhobo tribe, e.g. HRM Oporomor Godspower of Bomadi town (Ijaw community) in Bomadi L.G.A. He had his maternal root from Gbaregolor community (Urhobo community) which is located along the Forcados River. His Royal Highness, king of Akugbene community (Ijaw town) has his maternal root from Okuoma community (Urhobo town). The king of Akugbene community influenced some developments in Okuoma, like construction of jetty at the waterfront of Okuoma, e.t.c. These people (Urhobos and Ijaws) are one people because they are related by blood or marriage in one way or another. Mr. Barrister Smooth, a famous Ijaw singer once said in his song "When you come to my house you can't separate Ijaw man from Urhobo man because they all live together as one." We are one people.

Back to the main issue;
Okuoma community had land dispute with their neighboring community Okoloba over common boundary. The land dispute has been lingering for quite a long time now. At the boundary side of Okoloba community there is a white mansion, this mansion belongs to a warlord, a man known to be a right-hand man to Mr. Government Tompolo.
Okoloba community have always claimed ownership of the land on which the Okuoma community is located, they always say the "Okuoma inhabitants are their tenants".
If you recall, I earlier said there is a mansion at boundary of both communities, this mansion is owned by a warlord from Okoloba (Ijaw community) this man is so influential and he owns a shrine in this mansion where he practices human sacrifices as rituals in worshipping his war god; Egbesu. Last month February, this man armed his boys and attacked a commercial boat conveying some Okuoma community boys namely Igho and co. These boys were all murdered by this warlord and he labeled them criminals. He wrote to JTF (Joint Task Force) that they were criminals. Remember, I told you that he is Tompolo's right-hand man He is so influential and connected that whatsoever he tells the JTF is what they accept, because his boss Tompolo owns Tantita Security Forces and they control the creeks. This act alone triggered the grievance of the Okuoma community. When this warlord's gang want to carry these crimes, they put on army camouflage so it's difficult to differentiate genuine Army personnel from these hoodlums.
Last week, a man named Anthony Aboh from Okoloba community went missing, his relation from Okoloba community, an Honorable member, believed that It was the Okuoma community that kidnapped him to retaliate for the attack which was carried out on the Okuoma community boys, so they reported the issue to the Bomadi JTF. Just before he reported, the body of the alleged kidnapped man was discovered floating on River Forcados at Ayakoromor community. His hands were tied and he had been beheaded (that was the picture displayed on Social Media with the fallen soldiers body). This annoyed the Okoloba community so much, the Honorable and some delegates from the Okoloba reported to JTF, which then proceeded to Okuoma community on March 14th, 2024 with some soldiers in company of the Honorable. On reaching there, they met with the chairman and elders of the community in their town hall and they brought up the case of the kidnapped beheaded man with the community leaders. The chairman and elders all denied saying they know nothing of such case, which made the soldiers ask the elders and community leaders to lie on the floor. The Army then insisted on arresting the community leaders and that was where the crises erupted from. The information got to the youths that fake soldiers have come to terrorize the community again, and when they turned up there was argument between the Army and community youths. The Army released some gun shots, leading to a full blown war between the youths and the Army because they believed they were fake soldiers. They were killed in error, it is a case of mistaken identity.

The people of Okuoma where soldiers were killed were attacked by Ijaws (Okoloba warlord) and they suffered casualties, mind you when this warlord carried out the dastardly act they wore Army camouflage.

Within the same week, on sighting men in uniform again in the Okuoma community they believed they were the same set of Ijaws warriors from Okoloba again and retaliated, killing all of them not knowing that they were real soldiers......
My fellow Nigerians this is the real cause of the crises. March 15th, Okuoma was raided and razed down by Nigeria Army because of the death about 16 fallen soldiers, women, children, and aged men weren't spared, but funny enough the actual perpetrators have since fled the community leaving those who are either too old, too weak, too sick, too young, or too innocent to flee. Till now, there's still crying, gnashing of teeth, and blood flow around the Forcados River axis. On March 17th yesterday the Army stormed the white mansion at the border after gathering intelligence, on reaching there, they were amazed at what they discovered in the shrine at the white mansion. This mansion is situated at the River bank; they discovered fresh and dried human skulls of innocent people who were used by this warlord as sacrifices for his god (Egbesu). Angered, the Nigerian Army burned down the mansion. Some fake soldiers were also arrested in the mansion. This is the true story of what happened that has claimed so many lives including the lives of a Lt. Colonel, 2 Majors, a Captain, and 12 soldiers, all men of the Nigeria Armed Forces.... Man's wickedness to man. God save our souls.

Both communities should be taken over by the Nigeria Army. This wahala has become too much. I just fear that the violence might spill into other communities

ispreloaded:
really?

Yeah

bestman09:
Brothers killing brothers over nothing. An Ijaw man from Delta state will rather trust an Ijaw man from Ondo state instead of his Isoko brother from the same Delta state

Very sad.

We saw that when Buhari was president.

The man saw the people in Niger Republic as brothers more than his own country men. Tells you the level of primitive thinking some have.

But the spokes person for the Army was denying their involvement in the killing of civilians in the reprisal attacks on Okuama community by pinning it on Okoloba community 2 days ago

You see?

YelloweWest:
I read the army killed about 50 innocent civilians is retaliation including women and children, a breastfeeding mother and her baby included....

You murdered sleep and you want to sleep?

Normally an average Urhobo man is trickish and not truthful. Urhobo wayo.

[quote author=bestman09 post=129040354]Brothers killing brothers over nothing. An Ijaw man from Delta state will rather trust an Ijaw man from Ondo state instead of his Isoko brother from the same Delta state

They learnt it from the fulanis.

https://twitter.com/KoikiMedia/status/1770763242433863735?t=LXHN38Bx56IgFV9H1EWmEQ&s=19
Watch the video on X

kushme:


Okay. Thanks.

Who are the invaders? The Okuamas or the Okolobas?

Cos, on a normal level the supposed strong one is the invader. Okuama became unfortunate! Someone even said it was a setup from Tompolo' boys, maybe the Okolobas did it,framing the Okuama community!.. conspiracy theories sha..

I wanted to mention your earlier comment but it's like you mentioned the other poster wrongly.

Look at the attached image.
Okuama and Gbaregolor etc Urhobo speaking communities along the Forcados River are tenants that has overgrown to forment trouble against their hosts. Though Okuama, Gbaregolor, Furukuama etc along the Forcados River have ancestral ties with Ijaws as the names of the communities are Ijaw but the people are Urhobo speaking people with long years of intermarriage and commerce.

To further buttress that they are tenants now fighting their hosts.
Bomadi Town is the headquarters of Bomadi LGA along the Forcados River highlighted in the image attached. All the other communities along that line of the Forcados River labeled with PURPLE in the attached image are IJAW COMMUNITIES including Bomadi the LGA HQ.

Gbaregolor and Okuama labeled with Yellow/Black are Urhobo speaking communities in between the Ijaw communities with their Local government being UGHELLI SOUTH LGA.
If you are familiar with Lagos, the Two Urhobo speaking communities (Gbaregolor and Okuama) are like Maryland and Fadeyi with their local government being SHAGAMU in Ogun State.

Ijaws are not oppressing them, western Ijaws are actually peace loving as those two communities have been fomenting trouble for long with Gbaregolor against Esanma in the 90s.
Akugbene Community, the immediate neighbor of Okuama is the community of Rep Nicholas Mutu while Ogbeinma that is just close by is the community of Sen. James Manager. So you see, no Ijaw is using government influence to oppress the Urhobo speaking communities that are isolated there. The story so far we hear in Lagos is that innocent Okuama people fleeing from military invasion of their community are running to Akugbene community that is Ijaw and they are treated well there despite Okuama having conflict with another Ijaw community (Okoloba).

Anybody telling you Ijaws are troublesome are misguided. Ijaws are peace loving people, they just don't keep calm in the face of oppression.

Dilimi:
Normally an average Urhobo man is trickish and not truthful. Urhobo wayo.

They are very tricky though Urhobo and Ijaws in Delta State are like brothers. The isolated Urhobo communities along the Forcados River, who are tenants are just stubborn for unknown reasons. Despite their community names being Ijaw and most families there have both Urhobo and Ijaw ancestry, they still foment trouble

ReubenE:

I wanted to mention your earlier comment but it's like you mentioned the other poster wrongly.

Look at the attached image.
Okuama and Gbaregolor etc Urhobo speaking communities along the Forcados River are tenants that has overgrown to forment trouble against their hosts. Though Okuama, Gbaregolor, Furukuama etc along the Forcados River have ancestral ties with Ijaws as the names of the communities are Ijaw but the people are Urhobo speaking people with long years of intermarriage and commerce.

To further buttress that they are tenants now fighting their hosts.
Bomadi Town is the headquarters of Bomadi LGA along the Forcados River highlighted in the image attached. All the other communities along that line of the Forcados River labeled with PURPLE in the attached image are IJAW COMMUNITIES including Bomadi the LGA HQ.

Gbaregolor and Okuama labeled with Yellow/Black are Urhobo speaking communities in between the Ijaw communities with their Local government being UGHELLI SOUTH LGA.
If you are familiar with Lagos, the Two Urhobo speaking communities (Gbaregolor and Okuama) are like Maryland and Fadeyi with their local government being SHAGAMU in Ogun State.
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Ijaws are not oppressing them, western Ijaws are actually peace loving as those two communities have been fomenting trouble for long with Gbaregolor against Esanma in the 90s.
Akugbene Community, the immediate neighbor of Okuama is the community of Rep Nicholas Mutu while Ogbeinma that is just close by is the community of Sen. James Manager. So you see, no Ijaw is using government influence to oppress the Urhobo speaking communities that are isolated there. The story so far we hear in Lagos is that innocent Okuama people fleeing from military invasion of their community are running to Akugbene community that is Ijaw and they are treated well there despite Okuama having conflict with another Ijaw community (Okoloba).

Anybody telling you Ijaws are troublesome are misguided. Ijaws are peace loving people, they just don't keep calm in the face of oppression.

Oh, now I see, thank you for the piece. So, it is more of a host and settlers thing, cos you mentioned Gbaregolor, an Urhobo community that is close to Esanma having the same trouble!!!

So, what's the play from the Ijaws in Okoloba towards the Okuama people since the Ijaws from Akugbene are treating them well, are they trying to send the tenants back to Ughelli south or colonize them and make the communities part of Bomadi?

Who should we believe

Jobig:
Dem de thief, I no be thief

Abii nau 😀

I thought I was coming to read something that sheds more light on what went wrong.

Ijaws seem to be as troublesome as their counterparts in the NorthIjaws seem to be as troublesome as their counterparts in the North...

ogugwa1992:
*Okuama Community Must Desist From Spreading Falsehood Against Okoloba Community, Ijaw Nation - NDIG



https://leaders.ng/2024/03/21/okuama-community-must-desist-from-spreading-falsehood-against-okoloba-community-ijaw-nation-ndig/

The Nigerian Army is not a Law Enforcement Agency and has no business interfering or claiming to resolve any civil disputes even in cases of criminality. The appropriate agency is the Nigeria Police.

While the killing of the Army officers and personnel is condemnable, there is need to ask why the Army was intervening in a civil matter in the first instance, which is beyond its mandate.

kushme:


Oh, now I see, thank you for the piece. So, it is more of a host and settlers thing, cos you mentioned Gbaregolor, an Urhobo community that is close to Esanma having the same trouble!!!

So, what's the play from the Ijaws in Okoloba towards the Okuama people since the Ijaws from Akugbene are treating them well, are they trying to send the tenants back to Ughelli south or colonize them and make the communities part of Bomadi?

I would say the endgame is Okoloba seeing Okuama leave for good even though they know that is not possible. Okoloba don't consider themselves having a community boundary with Okuama but rather with Akugbene so friction is bound to occur since Okuama is claiming territories too. The founders of Okuama were visitors of Akugbene (that is the history from Ijaws perspective) so they enjoy more cordial relationship with them than Okoloba.

With the growth in population and expansion, and with resources getting thin, they are bound to clash as one side see the other side as visitors and may not want to fully share. That I think is the background of the problem.
If the current conflict is not properly laid to rest, I am afraid they may still clash again in the future when the present dust settles.

Esanma vs Gbaregolor happened about three times in the 90s - 93, 95, 97/98. There are still minor arguments here and there occasionally but has not risen to the level of armed conflict so far since 98.
According to records and history, Esanma has boundary with Okpokunou but Gbaregolor is right in between them.

However, this type of disagreements is not limited to the Bomadi axis. There are cases like that in Warri South LGA between Itsekiri vs Urhobo, in Warri South West LGA and Warri North LGA between Ijaw vs Itsekiri etc so much so that Urhobos are even making attempts to rename their own parts of Warri WADO CITY with Ijaw, Itsekiri and Urhobo all contesting for the ownership of Warri - with government favoring the Itsekiri during Awolowo's time with the Olu of Warri stool, there is no end in sight with the disagreement.

They should take the territory dispute case to court and once decided, it should be enforced with full force. What did the Bible say again? Curse is anyone that redraw anyone's old landmark. In fact, I can't believe some useless idiot still believe they can steal anyone's territory in this age when everything had already been documented. Anyways, take the case to court while using the old map and documents to decide the owner. Once the owner is decided, enforce it fully, which includes the previously decided cases. To prevent another stupid person in the future.