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Protest Erupts in Onitsha Electronics Market as Oga Allegedly Offers Nwa Boi (Apprentice) Only ₦1 Million After Years of Service, Traders Say It’s Too Small.!

UPDATE: Oga's ₦1m offer after years of service which sparked outrage that lead to protest , now accuses Nwa Boi of stealing ₦18m after 7 yrs of service; Onitsha Electronics Market traders rally behind boy, term oga's accusations baseless.!

That's my people, we stand for what is right. The entire market believes the boy is right, because they were all there when the whole thing happened.

INEC didn't use technical glitches to ruin this issue, the judiciary wont change this matter with technicalities and award the Oga the victory because he's affluent.

Shylock oga.

This nwaboy of a thing is becoming something else.

One million that cannot do much nowadays.

Oga give him his complete money

Hmmmm....

For such crowd to have come out like that, means the boy is right and the oga is notorious for maltreating his nwa boys.

Is the Oga still alive?

high bp go don hook other ogas..

imagine dem staging a protest and demanding 5m, u sure sey dem ogas go wan gree accept apprentice again like diz...

depression go don jam pesin wey get like 10 apprentice

Some are fortunate with ogas, while some are unfortunate as well.
How could he steal 18m and you didn't do anything since, till he's about to be settled?

The Igbo apprentice system should be modified to specify how long the boy should serve his master and how much he gets.

Does the oga have any evidence that the boy stole his money? If so, he should present it. This is how people abuse everything.

My girlfriend got another job and on the empowerment form

She wrote single 🥹🥹

Hehe the oga has been waiting for him 😆

Marginalisation,

Igbos hate injustice, the market union will close Oga shop if he doesn't comply by adequately compensating his apprentice, the market people possibly know that the Nwaboi was not corrupt, even if that Nwaboi is Yoruba or Hausa they will stand for him against their kinsmen, this is what makes them progressive

The man sha

its modern times now, apprentice should always sign a legal agreement as to how settlement should be done at the end

An egalitarian justice system is the way to go.....It is not monopolistic and not for the highest bidder!

Na Igbo dey do Igbo.

robinso01:
Some are fortunate with ogas, while some are unfortunate as well.
How could he steal 18m and you didn't do anything since, till he's about to be settled?

That's just an excuse not to pay him much, they should hold the Oga well. he needs to pay the guy his complete money.

Foolish Oga.... you must fully compensate the young man, else that's the end of your business in that market

Sad

The "Nwa-boi" apprentice system needs serious re-evaluation among the Igbos. it is now being abused and destroyed by the same people that benefited from the benevolence of their former masters. Agreed, the system and practice have produced lots of millionaires and made the Igbos to be one of the tribes with the highest rate of social mobility. You will see families that were hitherto wallowing in poverty in the village but because of the fact that one of the sons that went to Onitsha, Aba, Lagos or North to stay with a master and learnt a trade has been settled and he is doing well, sending his newly acquired wealth home to support his siblings in the village, who would benefit and eventually escape the poverty circle.

My own father was a product of the "Nwa-boi" apprentice system as he served his own master, got settled and started his own business. Likewise, he did same to numerous "Umu-boi", plural for nwa-boi, that lived with us, many of whom came from Ebonyi and Enugu states, respectively. Some of them are doing well, built houses in their villages and have supported their kit and kin back home. The system is currently facing its biggest challenge as the men that were product of the system have turned monsters to the upcoming "nwa-boi", coupled with the fact that the Gen -Z wives of the modern Ogas are contributing to the collapse of the apprentice system. Some of the Oga's gen Z wives have abused the "umu-boi" beyond records ever seen in the past, turning them to slaves and unwanted guest.

The Igbo community should come together to salvage this system and the government should enact laws to protect the interest of the "nwa-boi"still undergoing through the apprentice system. The "Nwa-boi" system have been studied in numerous foreign universities, including Harvard, Columbia and Dartmouth College, to understand how the system has been so successful and created the largest social mobility ever seen in a tribe. I considered the apprentice system as practiced by the Igbos as most potent and effective poverty alleviation program with positive outcomes and chain effects on a large scale. The "Nwa-boi" apprentice system is under threat within the Igbo enclave and the system should be salvaged as it has supported families, extended families and entire kindred in the past.

Interesting
That's why is good to be good. See better apprentice with good character,they were united to fight his cause

Lover of better Nigeria. Obidient family

Let imagine that oga happen to be Yorùba and apprentice be Igbo

We no go gree

Hmmm

Lol before anybody starts anything I believe there should be an agreement...


Because even if the boss offer him 50k there was no written agreement or a video agreement with any witness....

Settling apprentices is all more of Mindset,empathy and compassion
Oga’s that feel this way are actually Oga’s who might have done same during their own apprenticeship.Basically they’d feel thesame way towards any boy who comes to his store for work

SmartPolician:
The Igbo apprentice system should be modified to specify how long the boy should serve his master and how much he gets.

Does the oga have any evidence that the boy stole his money? If so, he should present it. This is how people abuse everything.

Please system being practiced should be politicized I beg you

We don't support intimidation, exploitation oppression and every forms evil in that side.
The whole community will gather to shame an evil person and parade them naked in the market square before banishing them.
Even when they die they are not buried but thrown into the evil forest to prevent their reincarnation.

For the market men and women to rally round the boy means that he is a good boy. Assuming that he is a person of questionable character, everyone would have turned their back on him. However, things like these happen once in a while and we should not use it to judge the system as there are still good oga's. We all read about how someone settled his own boy with N15m and a shop earlier this year and some naysayers still have some bad to say about the system.

Meanwhile, those protesting are doing their best but the ultimate decision is still with the Oga as you can not force him.

In Dec 1992, at block 13 no 17, Alaba international market, Ojo, one Oga treated his boy badly like this by settling him with N15,000, money that could barely pay for shop then and the traders around the axis, knowing that the boy was very hardworking protested quietly in a different way by raising over N100,000 for him, helping him get a shop very close to the oga's shop and giving him container load of cables (The same line of business his oga is into) on credit to market for them and in less than a year, the oga had to close his own shop on block 13 and today, the boy is one of the biggest importer of cables in Alaba. This is a real life story.