₦airaland Forum

Abagworo:
Nobody intimidates or demolishes anybody's house because he is Ohu. They just can't hold traditional Chieftaincy and other traditional rites that's all. It's different from what is happening in Lagos

It is even worse. Because in Lagos you only destroy property, while in ohu/osu you destroy someone's spirit. Igbos don't commit suicide because of property but do becsuse of osu!

Mirasteel:
They finally got some brains.

But easier said than done though.
I think only LAW can eradicate the menace

georgeakins:
Our blothers still live in the stone age in 2025,
Chai!

How about people who prostrate to descendants of people who killed and subjugated their forefathers, and crown them and their descendants "king" forever?!

Bwilliam:
The day my dad was like "See that place where those beautiful women are coming out from, they are ohu and we can't inter marry", was the day I knew I might disappoint him one day.

Osu is a relic from the old religion.
As long as they are Christians, they are our brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.

That's the amazing thing - you will see firebrand Christians who carry am for head - but when it comes to their child marrying osu/ohu they become wimps!

Flangelo12:
They can't marry non-Osu.

Clearly, they would not be voted in an election.

I'm pretty sure they cannot own certain lands.

Yet non-osu/ohu will go to other lands like US and proudly and happily marry people who were truly slaves!

Airlord2030:
Same people who cry Yorubas hate them, when they don't even love themselves

Na wa. But Yorubas also prostrate to (criminal) descendants of people who killed and subjugated their forefathers, and crown them and their descendants "kings" forever!
Which is worse?

Chegesnd:
That's a mind set!
Better grow up!
The Osu of a thing is as stupid as those who initiated it.

It is EXTREMELY stupid indeed. But he has a point.
Only legislation with serious consequences will abolish it

Angelfrost:
In 2025... It took you clowns that long?!!

SMH!!!

Don't be fooled. This hasn't resolved it

Omotaday:
How do they keep track of the families with ohu lineage? How accurate is the labelling?

Especially in this age of japa. But like anything, it boils down to what people believe to be true.

SpaceX:
wetin you want do with old cargo, you will regret it. Old cargos have nothing to offer.

What age exactly donyou call old cargo?

aribisala0:
Which of the gods
I know Jehovah the blood thirsty deity declared Cain an outcast because he brought him a vegetarian offering

But only Cain, NOT his descendants

DoctorStanley:
But only Cain, NOT his descendants

How is that relevant to what you quoted

SonOfDSoil01:
so how does that make it right? Always trying to justify nonsense btw we won’t be blackmailed by you clowns in the way we chose to govern our state, any one not pleased with it can relocate to his/her village and continue with the backward practice

Your state? Why can't Nigeria copy from US that whatever state you're born is where you're from?? I mean, we copied everything else!

alizma:
My thoughts too,

Only LEGISLATION can do it - a law with serious penalties

alizma:
So she be OSU?

No mind am

QuinQ:
Hope it works. Igbos should come together as a nation and abolish the Osu or Ohu (is there a difference?) system.

I wrote a thesis on this caste system in Igbo land during my University years and interviewd some traditional rulers and elders in many towns and villages in Enugu and Imo state and I can authoritatively tell you that Ohu and Osu are not the same.
Ohu is a common slave owned by a person or a family and the offsprings automatically inherits it, while Osu is one owed by or betrothed to the gods of the land.

Interestingly, most of these Osu being freeborns, willingly consecrated themselves to the gods so as to avoid punishment for a crime commited, like murder etc, thereby becoming immune to prosecution as no one dares touch what belongs to the gods. The person is now under a convenant with the god and is being protected by it.
This is usually done via a blood covenant and the person in question and his/her offsprings becomes the property of the God he/she has sold their soul to forever. Hence the freeborns tag them as Osu.

Ohu, which is a slave owned by a freeborn can be undone. It only takes the master to give his word and he/she becomes free. Reason this community can easily set them free to become equal and freeborns. It is commendable.

The Osu which involves a blood convenant cannot be undone easily. Reason being that the ancestors who entered the convenant with the gods has all passed on and a blood convenant can only be broken by them and not the offsprings.

If you marry one, automatically you become one. No two ways about it. They are often blessed with immense riches by the gods, but then they mostly die mysteriously and untimely.

fxexperts:
This can only happen in the yeast, as for me and my family in my region there is nothing like ,OSU so I can marry whoever I like. those people who still believe in this Osu system are the worse people on earth.

Dont mind them bunch of tribalist hypocrites.

Who did this thing to Igbos??

DoctorStanley:
What age exactly donyou call old cargo?

30 and above, they are for recreational purposes only

dangermouse:
I wrote a thesis on this caste system in Igbo land during my University years and interviewd some traditional rulers and elders in many towns and villages in Enugu and Imo state and I can authoritatively tell you that Ohu and Osu are not the same.
Ohu is a common slave owned by a person or a family and the offsprings automatically inherits it, while Osu is one owed by or betrothed to the gods of the land.

Interestingly, most of these Osu being freeborns, willingly consecrated themselves to the gods so as to avoid punishment for a crime commited, like murder etc, thereby becoming immune to prosecution as no one dares touch what belongs to the gods. The person is now under a convenant with the god and is being protected by it.
This is usually done via a blood covenant and the person in question and his/her offsprings becomes the property of the God he/she has sold their soul to forever. Hence the freeborns tag them as Osu.

Ohu, which is a slave owned by a freeborn can be undone. It only takes the master to give his word and he/she becomes free. Reason this community can easily set them free to become equal and freeborns. It is commendable.

The Osu which involves a blood convenant cannot be undone easily. Reason being that the ancestors who entered the convenant with the gods has all passed on and a blood convenant can only be broken by them and not the offsprings.

If you marry one, automatically you become one. No two ways about it. They are often blessed with immense riches by the gods, but then they mostly die mysteriously and untimely.

Thanks for your erudite and in-depth answer to my question.
I think you are wrong about it being easy to abolish though. Check back on this Oguta in a few years and you'll not see intermarriage. I think government should make a law

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

That's the sad part. Even the most Christian ones

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

But that's the worst by far. That's the one that kills the soul!

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

Just imagine. But they'll accept a foreigner

FashionCookie:
They dare not!

Sad, isn't it

Naustine:
Dude is a pastor, A big one at that... Had three sons, all have down syndrome. They turn that way once they get to six or seven years old.. it's a scary journey to embark bro.. I wish nothing like that exists. But

😅🤣 Come on bro, you ought know better. This had nothing to do with osu/ohu

FashionCookie:
E no easy to just wake up abolish tradition.

Except you start putting people in jail

QuinQ:
Thanks for your erudite and in-depth answer to my question.
I think you are wrong about it being easy to abolish though. Check back on this Oguta in a few years and you'll not see intermarriage. I think government should make a law

Ohu is not even that serious as it is not that common and not visible any longer. One can easily inter marry with them.

Osu is more serious. They never mentioned it, only the Ohu caste system.

Even the church could not eradicate it (Osu) as some things are better left as it is.

Oguta is Charley boy’s hometown

You would have thought he would have fought against this in his hometown

rather than fighting over a Bus stop in Lagos that was never supposed to have been named

after him

dangermouse:
I wrote a thesis on this caste system in Igbo land during my University years and interviewd some traditional rulers and elders in many towns and villages in Enugu and Imo state and I can authoritatively tell you that Ohu and Osu are not the same.
Ohu is a common slave owned by a person or a family and the offsprings automatically inherits it, while Osu is one owed by or betrothed to the gods of the land.

Interestingly, most of these Osu being freeborns, willingly consecrated themselves to the gods so as to avoid punishment for a crime commited, like murder etc, thereby becoming immune to prosecution as no one dares touch what belongs to the gods. The person is now under a convenant with the god and is being protected by it.
This is usually done via a blood covenant and the person in question and his/her offsprings becomes the property of the God he/she has sold their soul to forever. Hence the freeborns tag them as Osu.

Ohu, which is a slave owned by a freeborn can be undone. It only takes the master to give his word and he/she becomes free. Reason this community can easily set them free to become equal and freeborns. It is commendable.

The Osu which involves a blood convenant cannot be undone easily. Reason being that the ancestors who entered the convenant with the gods has all passed on and a blood convenant can only be broken by them and not the offsprings.

If you marry one, automatically you become one. No two ways about it. They are often blessed with immense riches by the gods, but then they mostly die mysteriously and untimely.

The Osu people have spoken and they absolutely hated how the system treated them worse than Lepers.

Worse than lepers because the Children of Lepers didn’t inherit their Condition and leprosy can be cured


the children of the Osu did inherit the Osu Caste and it was an incurable situation

QuinQ:
But that's the worst by far. That's the one that kills the soul!

Unfortunately

Easier said than done. Such cultural practices never truly go away.

QuinQ:
Except you start putting people in jail

This particular system will be very hard to abolish.
Not something wey person go chop belleful come dey do.
Except maybe by the Christians amongst them.(the ones with mind o).
Nobody want make dem use am set example.