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Truths9ja:
🚨90% of ISWAP terrorising Kogi and Ondo are Ebira by Tribe - Sheikh Gumi, the Terrorist Advocate.

I don't have the data but, Gumi may not be far from the truth. Beside, he knows them all.

One Obadaki was recently recaptured by DSS following his earlier jail break. He allegedly mastermind the deeper life church bloodshed in 2012. I remembered that night too well.

The Terrorist group that attack Apostle Suleiman were Ebiras too. What about the Owo church massacre? I remembered the late Ondo state Governor raising this accusations few years ago prior to his death.

If you grew up in Ebiraland, you will have no doubts on that fact, religious extremism runs through some of our people's vein. It is not hidden. Between ourselves alone, we laid waste of our land. I remembered the time of Baba and Mustapha too. Let me stop here 🧑‍🦯

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Fejoku:
Ebira people really tried to resist the Fulani jihad of the 1800s. They fought and resisted but the Fulanis were joined by the Yoruba and Nupe Muslims until the Ebira resistance was defeated. What you now have are an Ebira muslims with pent up anger. They are more fanatical than anyone you can think.
However, Ebiras are known to be a very bold fierce and hardworking people. It's unfortunate that Islam forcefully took over their land without anyone helping them out.

Streetinvestor2:
This is the truth if u lived in the North. The most fanatic Muslim are from kogi and kwara state. They are the ones behind most religious crisis in the North. El za zaki and his brother i
are from kogi and lead different factions.

Fejoku:
Here's an Excerpt by an Ebira person about the Fulani/Nupe Jihad against their people. As usual, the Yoruba muslims joined them in the Jihad. History is about being repeated.

The Nupe invasion of Ebiraland in the late nineteenth century was an offshoot of the Fulani Jihad of 1804, spearheaded by Usman Dan Fodio. The spread of the Jihad was a sort of war action. The Sokoto jihadist conquered the Nupe Kingdom, who in turn took it upon themselves to Islamize the Ebira. The Nupe invasion was therefore in the pretext of spreading Islam.
It is common knowledge however, that slave-raiding and the ambition to plunder and loot were their main motivating factors. The Nupe first invaded Ebiraland in about 1865. The Ebira effectively damned the tide of the invaders, then came another massive but equally abortive invasion variously put to have occurred in 1875 or 1885. The Nupe warriors assisted by their Ilorin and Ibadan cohorts attacked Ebiraland through Ihima. The Ebira again emerged triumphant.
The success of the Ebiraland in defending their “ete ohiku” was due to a number of factors. The Ebira were very brave people who would prefer to die than to allow foreigners (ani ikinami) to laud it over them. Their skill with bow and arrows buttressed their bravery while the hilly nature of their environment proved an added advantage over the Nupe who fought on horse-back.
The gods of Ebiraland did not go to sleep when their ‘children’ were being threatened by external invaders. Either by coincidence or supernatural design, the invaders disturbed the hive of a swarm of bees on the hill housing “Ori Ihima” deity. The bees stung and stung, forcing the invaders to beat a hasty retreat. For his saving grace, the “Ori Ihima” was acclaimed as the divine force that preserved the independence of the Ebira until the colonial wind of change swept over Ebiraland in 1903-4.
The war had some consequences on the whole Ebiraland. It disturbed farming, thereby causing famine in the land. Some of the Ebira captives during the war were sold into slavery and slave raiding (ako) became widespread even among indigenes.
Culled from “The Heritage of Ebira Tao,” a book by S.S. Salami
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MadPolitician:
How did he know?
Was he the one who trained them?
How did he do the counting and name identification?

Christistruth00:
That is not True
The Gunmen that stormed Eruku Church were Bororo Fulani
You could see the long hair of one of them that he had packed under his cap

Rolings:
Not far from the truth
Lots of extremists among ebira
And if you know ebiras , outsiders can't come and do nonsense in their land, they are the ones doing the terrorism

Christistruth00:
That is not True
The Gunmen that stormed Eruku Church were Bororo Fulani
You could see the long hair of one of them that he had packed under his cap

Acidosis:
Might be true. Ebiras and Fulanis are the most violent tribes in Africa. Christianity is why some of them are calm. But you see Ebira Muslims with poor or no education? The most violent, aggressive, and deadly people in the world.

MadPolitician:
He might have trained NADECO drug mulls too..
Who knows? Did he ever live in Chicago?
The way the government turns a blind eye to all his actions, there must be something to it..

Truths9ja:
🚨90% of ISWAP terrorising Kogi and Ondo are Ebira by Tribe - Sheikh Gumi, the Terrorist Advocate.

I don't have the data but, Gumi may not be far from the truth. Beside, he knows them all.

One Obadaki was recently recaptured by DSS following his earlier jail break. He allegedly mastermind the deeper life church bloodshed in 2012. I remembered that night too well.

The Terrorist group that attack Apostle Suleiman were Ebiras too. What about the Owo church massacre? I remembered the late Ondo state Governor raising this accusations few years ago prior to his death.

If you grew up in Ebiraland, you will have no doubts on that fact, religious extremism runs through some of our people's vein. It is not hidden. Between ourselves alone, we laid waste of our land. I remembered the time of Baba and Mustapha too. Let me stop here 🧑‍🦯

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Dogalmighty17:
Does their language matter? A terrorist is a terrorist.

Christistruth00:
El Zaki is from Zaria

Truths9ja:
🚨90% of ISWAP terrorising Kogi and Ondo are Ebira by Tribe - Sheikh Gumi, the Terrorist Advocate.

I don't have the data but, Gumi may not be far from the truth. Beside, he knows them all.

One Obadaki was recently recaptured by DSS following his earlier jail break. He allegedly mastermind the deeper life church bloodshed in 2012. I remembered that night too well.

The Terrorist group that attack Apostle Suleiman were Ebiras too. What about the Owo church massacre? I remembered the late Ondo state Governor raising this accusations few years ago prior to his death.

If you grew up in Ebiraland, you will have no doubts on that fact, religious extremism runs through some of our people's vein. It is not hidden. Between ourselves alone, we laid waste of our land. I remembered the time of Baba and Mustapha too. Let me stop here 🧑‍🦯

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ultraviolet27:
Stop arguing what you don't know it's possible El Zaki is an ebira man I schooled in kogi state even their christians aren't that better very hot tempered and man'ne--rle--ss have you ever come in contact with the ebiras that you even know them that much?

where we lived in ekiti (ikole) for 27 years before we relocated to our home town in efon their are many ebiras there and they are the ones who farms tuber crops most(yams,water yams,coco yams etc) that's why in ikole ekiti yams are very plenty there and they are very versed in the use of charms a yoruba or any other tribes that plants the same yams with them even as the latter monitors his /her yams uses manure etc compared with the ebiras their harvests will never be bountiful and ample compared to the ebiras why? because they use charms to grow their crops and one even confessed in ado ekiti they used ghosts who died in accidents to cultivate their crops situated by the roadside in the midnight

few years ago in ikole one of the ebira farmers was about to die because when he was preparing yam setts(seeds) for cultivation the knife they used for the seeds slicing cut him in his right hand and it swelled to death because the knifes were already laced with charms if it was only the yams the knife touched that is how the yams would have being very large I am not discrediting them but go and price any ebira people's tlyams in the market and see how large they are

when my brother was wedding his bride in 2021 in Akure the 40 tuber of yams that was part of the bridal lists were purchased from the ebiras in ikunri market in ikole if you see how massive each of the yams was in size you will be amazed if I was still using the phone I used then because I snapped them I would have still had the pictures but when it spiolt I didn't save them on I clouds.

If ebiras are born and bred in other places apart from kogi they will have been so indoctrinated in the culture, languages and dressing of that place that you can't t even different them except maybe through their names and that's even if they are christians because their muslims also bear Islamic name when I was running my pgde in adekunle ajasin university in akungba akoko I was told to buy a drug from state hospital in iwaro I only saw it in a big chemist in oka akoka when I was buying it,it was after one of the vendors called another in ebira name I got to know they are ebiras, because their yoruba intonation is even more sharper than the real yorubas

It was there I got to know the owner and all the attendant are ebiras born and brought up in akoka and so are they many in akoko land.even one former governor of ondo state mimiko his mum is also ebira and the mimiko is very arrogant why do you think the ebiras always use this phrase'ebira ni mi mi kin se eniyan'? because they themselves know they are cruel and don't behave like human beings?

If El zakazaki was born and brought up in Kaduna you will never even know he is ebira ebiras are many in ondo state so the owo massacre survivors and even governor akeredolu then would have been able to identify them and why are you grouping ebiras with yorubas? we don't even share the same geographical boundaries,nor the same language only the igalas we can say we still share some similarities in our language

my mum's late elder sister admonished her kids never to date let alone bring any kogi person ofor marriage not because of the other ethnic groups in kogi such as the okun yorubas,igarra,koto nkarfi,or the ogori magongos but specifically because of the ebiras why?her tenants in Lagos were an ebira couple and they showed her shege is it their filthiness, unwillingness to participate in the compound sanitation,or paying their phcn bills regularly?

Our family friend in ikole were ebiras but is still won't stop me from saying the truth almost all of them are terrible !!

IamANigerianMan:
You are speaking without fact, all the ISWAP arrested by DSS so far are IBIRA boys, Abu Qaqa that burnt NYANYA park is from IBIRA, Owo Catholic attack are all IBIRA boys, Kuje prison attack were all IBIRA boys.. remember these guys were all arrested by DSS.... BOKO HARAM is hausa/Fulani, ISWAP are 99% from north central but they were brought to up in the north Nigeria.... Jihadis and bandit are Fulani mostly from Niger Republic, Chad and Nigeria

ultraviolet27:
They are even more callous than the fulanis and they are bold and fearless not cowardly like the fulanis if you see how one beheaded his ex girlfriend in broad day light on the street in minna Niger state some years years back.

she was trying to leave him because of his cruelty and bad temper it was on one of the front page news on nairaland here

IamANigerianMan:
But all the ISWAP arrested by DSS so far are all IBIRA boys there is no Yoruba person inside

Dogalmighty17:
Does their language matter? A terrorist is a terrorist.

MightySparrow:
Fúlàní - Ebira consortum for human annihilation.

DomPerignon:
The narrative is wrong because Ebiras have always been Muslim and the history of their settlement dates to them being a mercenary force from Chad whom the Fulani recruited to overthrow the kanuri empire.

When the Fulani jihad failed, the Ebira mercenaries were drafted further south to overrun Benin.

The Bini kingdom resisted that onslaught.

The campaign to overrun Bini soil was jettisoned and after Uthman don Fodio's death that coincided with British war on Bini kingdom, the jihad was abandoned and the Ebiras settled were they are now.

How can the same people you claimed resisted Islamization only to end up overwhelmingly Muslim?

How did they convert to Islam within a very short period ?