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FashionCookie:
Easier said than done.
E easy?

Lol, if e easy make one of them wey organise the casting ceremony marry one former Osu

DomPerignon:
And they will be crying about tribalism and other forms of discrimination while they practice and uphold their barbaric internal discrimination caste system.

Is the discrimination not only limited to marriage?
Do they discriminate in other sectors, for example, jobs?

Cmanforall:
Is the discrimination not only limited to marriage?
Do they discriminate in other sectors, for example, jobs?

A mini riot broke out in Enugu after an Osu/Ohu was appointed as the DPO in one LGA.

caesymore:
Lol, if e easy make one of them wey organise the casting ceremony marry one former Osu

They dare not!

FashionCookie:
As how nawwwww?
Easier said than done.
E easy?

It is easy. It is mindsets like yours that make it hard

DoctorStanley:
It is easy. It is mindsets like yours that make it hard

I hear

Jagabanbogu:
The issue is who go first marry

You have a point. That's why it somehow must involve a formal law with prescribed penalties

Offpoint1:
😂 That's not how you undo tradition...


It can only die natural death

It can also be done through legislation.
If you're suspected or reported as practicing it, you go to jail!

Brendaniel:
Good, this is a welcomed development

Excellent development. And long overdue

givedemwotowoto:
How would you know if you’re not from anywhere near the region?

It's same all over Igbo land

Hisroyalbadmeat:
Thank God, very baberic,uncivlised, Bush people, Thank God they have ended it Bunkum

Don't be so sure this will end it. I believe only thing will end it legislation - if you're found guilty you go to jail!

BrightAhiah99:
Talk is cheap, let the elders allow their own children to put it into practice by marrying them

Unfortunately you have a point. Only thing will end LAW with prescribed penalties

Some of you don't really know the deep science (what you may call spirituality) behind this segregation.

It's based on the science of compatibility of Normal body flora.

kgr8mike:
How a human created by God will just categorize another as outcast baffles the imagination.

And sustain it for centuries, and their descendants unable to undo it! Na wa

PDPdestroyer:
Loool. In this age and time? These cavemen are still in 19th century

I think it is better than people who prostrate to descendants of people who killed and subjugated their forefathers, and crown them and their descendants "king" forever!

Naustine:
As a son of the soil.. I can categorically tell u that abolishing that stuff is really difficult. I've seen non osu marry osu and the outcome was disastrous.

Unfortunately you do have a point. I think only legislation with serous penalties will do it

Kobicove:
This abolishment is only on paper!

Na wa. It is really sad

PlayerMeji:
So all this while I have been interacting with an Imo outcast!

How do you know the person is osu?

SonOfDSoil01:
people still practicing Osu caste system in 2025 segregating amongst themselves will be the ones quick to blame others of tribalism and igbophobia , what an irony…….very backward and primitive set of people

I think it is still better than people who prostrate to descendants of people who killed and subjugated their forefathers, and crown them and their descendants "king" forever!
What do you think?

DomPerignon:
And they will be crying about tribalism and other forms of discrimination while they practice and uphold their barbaric internal discrimination caste system.

No mind them.
There should be a law

beerfraud:
Congratulations to Osu

Who is "osu"?

Klington:
Long over due.

We must unite SE to the envy of the usual suspects.

United and pass a law to be enforced by vigilante

Dogalmighty17:
Finally, they want to join civilisation? They are welcome. We hope they will also abolish that practice of forcing widows to drink the water used to bathe the late husband's corpse. It is shameful that in this day and age, some people still practice such barbarism.

You are right. In other places they should abolish making "kings" of criminal descendants of murderers who managed to terrorize their forfathers in the past

Gotocourt:
I will snatch it grab it and run with it 🤫

You miss the point. He's saying you're osu

NwaIgboBoy:
Omo toto na toto, dick na dick. Marry anyone you wish to and have kids with them.

Yeah, problem is when your children want to get married

Goodman247:
Segregating among yourselves and you cry tribalism and racism, charity starts at home, love your neighbour as yourselves

Don't mind the hypocrites. Even the ones who carry Christianity 4 head

DomPerignon:
What happened ?

Shit goes south really quick in your yeast . To blame it on Osu/Ohu marriage with freeborns is the height of copium.

He's right. Marriage is hard enough without bringing that angle into it

LegendHero:
This is a lie. Na everytime dem dey abolish am but yet the caste system still persist.

There are some things that won’t actually go off, this caste system is one of them.

My India colleague could not marry the love of his life coz of this caste system too. It’s very big in India just as it’s big in Ibo land.

Unfortunately, you have a point. I think legislation can do it though.
If you know you're facing jail time...

Karlman:
We don't have that in my state

What state is that?

Breaker001:
And those who break that law should be punished with 20 years imprisonment with hard labor. After that, their head go correct by force 😎

Exactly!
Maybe not quite 20 years though
20 years for what?

Abagworo:
Ohu means slaves and came to be as a result of end in transatlantic slave trade so those unsold in different communities were accepted as settlers but not given full rights as the Freeborns in the locality. Most families don't really care or notice who is Ohu or not in everyday life but in occassions like Chieftaincy and things that have to do with deep traditional practices they are excluded

Not according to the OP. It says it is people who owed money.
Is it same as osu?

Flangelo12:
Yet, they want Super rights in Lagos.

No mind the hypocrites. And they'll very eagerly marry African-Americans who were truly enslaved for real