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Toruibestate:
THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE WARRI CRISIS.

When we come here to make posts about Warri city, people think that we want to stir up crisis again... But it is not Facebook posts that stir up crisis in Warri.... When Warri city crisis started the inventors of Facebook, had not yet been born,even their Parents had not be born....I will not tell you who is responsible for the Warri crisis.. .But I want you to read the following facts, and from there you can draw your conclusions on who are the Brains behind the Warri Crisis.

1) Before 1952, Warri city had no history of any crisis, this was because, it was a heterogeneous city built by the British with no Overlord....3 tribes were living together Peacefully, each of them knew their defined borders and territory.... There was no Olu, no Orosuen, no Pere and no Ovie.

2) The Original Place called Warri by the Europeans was Ode itsekiri, ..The itsekiris never called it Warri,....it was the Europeans that gave it that name,....Just like the Yorubas called their city Eko,but the Europeans called it Lagos.

3) Now these European established a Govt, in Ode itsekiri in 1891, and called it Warri Govt, and from there they started their Colony,.... So why Lagos became a British Govt in 1861, Warri ( Ode itsekiri) became a British Colony in 1891.

4) But by 1905, the British realized that Ode itsekiri ( Warri was too small a town to be the Capital of the area they intend to Govern, so they needed to move that capital to the hinterland.

5) So by 1908, they engaged Chief Dore to go to Agbassa Urhobo lands in the Present GRA of Warri city to Lease lands to built a New Warri city as a Capital city for this new Govt.

6) So they moved the Warri Govt from Ode itsekiri to Agbassa and environs, now instead of naming the New Capital Agbassa, they retained their name for Ode itsekiri ( Warri ) for Agbassa lands....This was because their Chief Political agent Chief Dore Numa had told them that Agbassa, Igbudu, Okere, Sapele, Oghara, were all Olu land before the interregnum of the Ode itsekiri dynasty of 1848.

7) But by 1936, the British had understood the terrain very well,so when they crowned the Only again after 88 years, they refused to crown him as Olu of Warri, but they crowned him as Olu of Itsekiri and in Ode itsekiri.
😎 But the Olu wants to move his capital to the new Warri city, then change his title to the Olu of Warri and so be the Overlord of this new heterogeneous City.

9)The British who clearly understood the complexity of the situation refused this his incessant requests.

10) But following the Richards Constitution, in the Mid 40's Power was handed over to the regional Government and the Warri Province fell under the Western region

11) The itsekiris voted Massively for the Action group of Awolowo which headed the Govt of Western region.... The urhobos voted against.

15) And with our kind of vengeance Politics which Persist till today, the Itsekiris were handsomely rewarded, by moving the Olu from Ode itsekiri to the New Warri city.

16) This sparked off the first Warri Crisis that affected many parts of the Warri Province and many itsekiris were expelled from Urhobo lands.

17) From then on the Olu and the Itsekiris have been trying hard to assert their Authority and Overlordship over Warri city, while the Urhobos and the Ijaws have been fighting hard to resist it.

18) The itsekiris made a strategic move by defining the term Warri to be synonymous with their own tribe itsekiri.... So them the word Warri means Iwere or Itsekiri..... Yet they do not even want to hear the Title "Olu of Iwere or Olu of Itsekiri"..... They Prefer the Foreign based one Olu of Warri.

19) But this calculated move is destroying the identities of the other 2 tribes the Urhobos and Ijaws also found in Warri.

20) The Ijaws, fought hard and got approval to set up their own kings in their areas, that were added to the name Warri....These kings are known as Pere. E.g The Pere of Gbaramatu Warri kingdom.

21) The Ijaws wanted to prove to the world that they also have a stake in Warri, fought hard for and by 1996, Succeeded in having a local government council created called Warri South west local Government, with the headquarters in an Ijaw enclave called Ogbe-Ijoh

22) This angered the Itsekiris, because they felt such a move was a stint on their Overlordship over the name and area called Warri.

23) So once again, they manipulated the Govt, and within 2 weeks the Govt, relocated the new headquarters from Ogbe-Ijoh to Ogidigben an itsekiri enclave

24) This move angered the Ijaws to their soul and declared War on the Itsekiri people,.... They killed, burnt and annihilated many itsekiri villages using Guerrilla tactics ....This was the origin of the Second Warri Crisis

25) Not being able to wreak a recompense vengeance on the Ijaws, because they were a Guerrilla warriors, the Itsekiris directed their frustrations on the Okere Urhobos, who had earlier defeated the itsekiris in court and removed their lands from the Overlord of the Olu.....Many Okere Urhobo Houses were destroyed.

26) The Ijaws continued to attack the Itsekiris until 1999, when James Ibori from Urhobo father and itsekiri mother, became Governor and fearing that more will be killed moved the capital of that Local council back to Ogbe-ijoh.....And once that Injustice became corrected, Peace was restored.

27) And now an Urhobo son from the Okumagba family of Warri city has Been appointed MD of the NDDC, the Itsekiris once again have been crying foul threatening War, because once the name Warri was mentioned, the appointment ought to be for the itsekiri.

28) So we now understand that the tendency for a particular tribe to Lord it over others in a Particular territory in an attempt to take all over Government allocation and resources is the root cause of the Warri crisis.... So what is the way forward ?



@General Ditari

VinnyBaba:
Nice one, OP.

Itsekiri too get Wahala for Delta State.

esnbrutality:


So una support Awolowo..

No wonder TRIBULATION and DESTRUCTION is ravaging your region.

Remember this..you are not SS.

IJAW, UHROBO, ITSEKIRI are MIDWESTERN REGION.

Follow your Yoruba heritage...just as Ooni and Alaffin are fighting constantly.

Burob:
General without much ado, it had to be u with this kind of information.

esnbrutality:


[b]So una support Awolowo..

No wonder TRIBULATION and DESTRUCTION is ravaging your region.

Remember this..you are not SS.

IJAW, UHROBO, ITSEKIRI are MIDWESTERN REGION.

Follow your Yoruba heritage...just as Ooni and Alaffin are fighting constantly. [/b]

Brenbentondiaz:
While peace and security are reigning in the east, as we can all see. Lolz. Or una support Awolowo too?

Therock5555:
A nice and interesting read....

ExplorerReturns:
I nearly fell for this crappy writeup. My saving grace was seeing the name of the writer, an ijaw apologist, general ditari.

How do I know this history has been manipulated? Because of the abundance of oil in egbema land, this op claimed that egbema land is ijaw. I laughed at him because I have never spoken ijaw or have any historical connection. I told him that I am an Igbo man and our people has no historical connection whatsoever with ijaws. As a matter of fact, ijaws are not indigenous to Nigeria but Ghana. They followed the white man ship to the shores of Nigeria and that is why there is no documented history of ijaw in eastern Nigeria in the 17th and early 18th century. No history whatsoever. So obviously any land ijaw is occupying in delta state is most probably an itshekiri land ijaws settled in.

ExplorerReturns:
I nearly fell for this crappy writeup. My saving grace was seeing the name of the writer, an ijaw apologist, general ditari.

How do I know this history has been manipulated? Because of the abundance of oil in egbema land, this op claimed that egbema land is ijaw. I laughed at him because I have never spoken ijaw or have any historical connection. I told him that I am an Igbo man and our people has no historical connection whatsoever with ijaws. As a matter of fact, ijaws are not indigenous to Nigeria but Ghana. They followed the white man ship to the shores of Nigeria and that is why there is no documented history of ijaw in eastern Nigeria in the 17th and early 18th century. No history whatsoever. So obviously any land ijaw is occupying in delta state is most probably an itshekiri land ijaws settled in.

ExplorerReturns:
I nearly fell for this crappy writeup. My saving grace was seeing the name of the writer, an ijaw apologist, general ditari.

How do I know this history has been manipulated? Because of the abundance of oil in egbema land, this op claimed that egbema land is ijaw. I laughed at him because I have never spoken ijaw or have any historical connection. I told him that I am an Igbo man and our people has no historical connection whatsoever with ijaws. As a matter of fact, ijaws are not indigenous to Nigeria but Ghana. They followed the white man ship to the shores of Nigeria and that is why there is no documented history of ijaw in eastern Nigeria in the 17th and early 18th century. No history whatsoever. So obviously any land ijaw is occupying in delta state is most probably an itshekiri land ijaws settled in.

ExplorerReturns:
I nearly fell for this crappy writeup. My saving grace was seeing the name of the writer, an ijaw apologist, general ditari.

How do I know this history has been manipulated? Because of the abundance of oil in egbema land, this op claimed that egbema land is ijaw. I laughed at him because I have never spoken ijaw or have any historical connection. I told him that I am an Igbo man and our people has no historical connection whatsoever with ijaws. As a matter of fact, ijaws are not indigenous to Nigeria but Ghana. They followed the white man ship to the shores of Nigeria and that is why there is no documented history of ijaw in eastern Nigeria in the 17th and early 18th century. No history whatsoever. So obviously any land ijaw is occupying in delta state is most probably an itshekiri land ijaws settled in.

Toruibestate:
THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE WARRI CRISIS.

When we come here to make posts about Warri city, people think that we want to stir up crisis again... But it is not Facebook posts that stir up crisis in Warri.... When Warri city crisis started the inventors of Facebook, had not yet been born,even their Parents had not be born....I will not tell you who is responsible for the Warri crisis.. .But I want you to read the following facts, and from there you can draw your conclusions on who are the Brains behind the Warri Crisis.

1) Before 1952, Warri city had no history of any crisis, this was because, it was a heterogeneous city built by the British with no Overlord....3 tribes were living together Peacefully, each of them knew their defined borders and territory.... There was no Olu, no Orosuen, no Pere and no Ovie.

2) The Original Place called Warri by the Europeans was Ode itsekiri, ..The itsekiris never called it Warri,....it was the Europeans that gave it that name,....Just like the Yorubas called their city Eko,but the Europeans called it Lagos.

3) Now these European established a Govt, in Ode itsekiri in 1891, and called it Warri Govt, and from there they started their Colony,.... So why Lagos became a British Govt in 1861, Warri ( Ode itsekiri) became a British Colony in 1891.

4) But by 1905, the British realized that Ode itsekiri ( Warri was too small a town to be the Capital of the area they intend to Govern, so they needed to move that capital to the hinterland.

5) So by 1908, they engaged Chief Dore to go to Agbassa Urhobo lands in the Present GRA of Warri city to Lease lands to built a New Warri city as a Capital city for this new Govt.

6) So they moved the Warri Govt from Ode itsekiri to Agbassa and environs, now instead of naming the New Capital Agbassa, they retained their name for Ode itsekiri ( Warri ) for Agbassa lands....This was because their Chief Political agent Chief Dore Numa had told them that Agbassa, Igbudu, Okere, Sapele, Oghara, were all Olu land before the interregnum of the Ode itsekiri dynasty of 1848.

7) But by 1936, the British had understood the terrain very well,so when they crowned the Only again after 88 years, they refused to crown him as Olu of Warri, but they crowned him as Olu of Itsekiri and in Ode itsekiri.
😎 But the Olu wants to move his capital to the new Warri city, then change his title to the Olu of Warri and so be the Overlord of this new heterogeneous City.

9)The British who clearly understood the complexity of the situation refused this his incessant requests.

10) But following the Richards Constitution, in the Mid 40's Power was handed over to the regional Government and the Warri Province fell under the Western region

11) The itsekiris voted Massively for the Action group of Awolowo which headed the Govt of Western region.... The urhobos voted against.

15) And with our kind of vengeance Politics which Persist till today, the Itsekiris were handsomely rewarded, by moving the Olu from Ode itsekiri to the New Warri city.

16) This sparked off the first Warri Crisis that affected many parts of the Warri Province and many itsekiris were expelled from Urhobo lands.

17) From then on the Olu and the Itsekiris have been trying hard to assert their Authority and Overlordship over Warri city, while the Urhobos and the Ijaws have been fighting hard to resist it.

18) The itsekiris made a strategic move by defining the term Warri to be synonymous with their own tribe itsekiri.... So them the word Warri means Iwere or Itsekiri..... Yet they do not even want to hear the Title "Olu of Iwere or Olu of Itsekiri"..... They Prefer the Foreign based one Olu of Warri.

19) But this calculated move is destroying the identities of the other 2 tribes the Urhobos and Ijaws also found in Warri.

20) The Ijaws, fought hard and got approval to set up their own kings in their areas, that were added to the name Warri....These kings are known as Pere. E.g The Pere of Gbaramatu Warri kingdom.

21) The Ijaws wanted to prove to the world that they also have a stake in Warri, fought hard for and by 1996, Succeeded in having a local government council created called Warri South west local Government, with the headquarters in an Ijaw enclave called Ogbe-Ijoh

22) This angered the Itsekiris, because they felt such a move was a stint on their Overlordship over the name and area called Warri.

23) So once again, they manipulated the Govt, and within 2 weeks the Govt, relocated the new headquarters from Ogbe-Ijoh to Ogidigben an itsekiri enclave

24) This move angered the Ijaws to their soul and declared War on the Itsekiri people,.... They killed, burnt and annihilated many itsekiri villages using Guerrilla tactics ....This was the origin of the Second Warri Crisis

25) Not being able to wreak a recompense vengeance on the Ijaws, because they were a Guerrilla warriors, the Itsekiris directed their frustrations on the Okere Urhobos, who had earlier defeated the itsekiris in court and removed their lands from the Overlord of the Olu.....Many Okere Urhobo Houses were destroyed.

26) The Ijaws continued to attack the Itsekiris until 1999, when James Ibori from Urhobo father and itsekiri mother, became Governor and fearing that more will be killed moved the capital of that Local council back to Ogbe-ijoh.....And once that Injustice became corrected, Peace was restored.

27) And now an Urhobo son from the Okumagba family of Warri city has Been appointed MD of the NDDC, the Itsekiris once again have been crying foul threatening War, because once the name Warri was mentioned, the appointment ought to be for the itsekiri.

28) So we now understand that the tendency for a particular tribe to Lord it over others in a Particular territory in an attempt to take all over Government allocation and resources is the root cause of the Warri crisis.... So what is the way forward ?

@General Ditari

Ruke1990:
As an ethnic urhobo, I can confirm that this is the most detailed and most objective picture of the true story. You can obviously see even in this writeup that no ijaw man lays claim to owning urhobo communities. The communities he called urhobo communities here are rightly urhobo and no urhobo man lays claim to ijaw communities even though they both share boundaries and inter marry too. Ijaws and urhobos share border with Igbos, benins, isokos, yorubas, ogonis, Ibibios, etc. There is no record of an ijaw or urhobo claiming to own communities belonging to these several tribes. But itsekiris are tiny and share border with Benin, ijaw and urhobos and have gone to war with all three ethnic neighbours trying claim their communities . Ologbo community in Edo state was once fought for by the itsekiris. You can see their history of chaos.

Renaming "nana" of itsekiri to "olu" was to earn political support of the Yoruba government that we were under in the western government. And awolowo being a typical tribalistic ethnic Yoruba man did not disappoint by dancing to the tune of bad fate politics and tribalism by trying to lord the tiny itsekiri tribe over the far larger urhobos and ijaws. I thank God for the courage of the Ijaws and their unrelenting pursuit for justice.

The itsekiris were banking on the support of tinubu wife being itsekiri to kick start the new warri war. They drafted a proposed warri state to steal ogbe ijaw, Ekpan, okere, ologbo and add these to itsekiri towns to form a new warri state owned by itsekiris. They even tried to add the part of sapele hosting seplat into the plan. But became disappointed that tinubu was not consenting to the woman power they were banking on. I pray for the success of the toru Ibe state and it's smart sponsors, I pray for Ethiope state as well to scale through so that these madness of the itsekiris can end for good.

Also, there is no town called warri so the government should rename those three local government bearing warri to ogbe-ijaw LG, Agbassa LG and leave Koko own as warri LG. He can then retain his Olu of warri there. In addition, split the itsekiri kingdom by creating 5 equal monarchy out of it. State governors have constitutional power to do this and I am wondering why urhobo governors have not done this. No be only awolowo sabi madness. Give them madness. This is the way to end their madness

Morenikeji090:
You are not serious for saying oluremi is an itsekiri woman..

Morenikeji090:
You are not serious for saying oluremi is an itsekiri woman..

Ruke1990:
She is itsekiri from Edo state. You obviously need to do your findings

Ruke1990:
She is itsekiri from Edo state. You obviously need to do your findings

Ruke1990:
She is itsekiri from Edo state. You obviously need to do your findings

Morenikeji090:
Abeg carry your nonsense history away jare u guys go just dey type rubbish up and down..

ExplorerReturns:
I nearly fell for this crappy writeup. My saving grace was seeing the name of the writer, an ijaw apologist, general ditari.

How do I know this history has been manipulated? Because of the abundance of oil in egbema land, this op claimed that egbema land is ijaw. I laughed at him because I have never spoken ijaw or have any historical connection. I told him that I am an Igbo man and our people has no historical connection whatsoever with ijaws. As a matter of fact, ijaws are not indigenous to Nigeria but Ghana. They followed the white man ship to the shores of Nigeria and that is why there is no documented history of ijaw in eastern Nigeria in the 17th and early 18th century. No history whatsoever. So obviously any land ijaw is occupying in delta state is most probably an itshekiri land ijaws settled in.

Thinkunltd:
God bless you richly for effortlessly saying the truth, coming from a neutral person..I just look at those write ups by the ijaw and urhobo apologist the op has a fabricated narrative to the history and I won’t blame u for what u were fed by your kingsmen..
Once again…any land being occupied by ijaw in delta state is owned by the Itsekiris..That is the raw truth.