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Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by tonychristopher: 8:06am On Aug 21, 2015 |
zuchyblink: how did you know this truth ...the most envied tribe is igbo and I am happy to be igbo ..I enjoy the look of envy on haters 2 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by tonychristopher: 8:09am On Aug 21, 2015 |
Duru1: my dear I asked what is the meaning of akalaka in Edo language nobody has answered d that till date |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by attacker231: 8:09am On Aug 21, 2015 |
tonychristopher: Tonychris is impotent. His daughter belongs to someone else, his wife told us this fact. You want proof? 1 Like |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by Chigold101(m): 8:11am On Aug 21, 2015 |
Jesusloveyou:You are just so funny... does meaning of names change with age? Iweka is the name of Obosi King not even Onitsha. Iweka is Obosi name... Dont delve into what you dont know... People should stop re writing history because Biafra lost the civil war 2 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by pazienza(m): 8:19am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[b] erre Parliamentarians, Chiefs And Port Harcourt Municipal Councillors Said Ikwerre Is Igbo - I really hate the boring argument or debate of Ikwerre being Igbo or not Igbo. We are not in control of what ethnic origin, community, nation, clan or tribe that we belong to. Wherever we found ourselves is by accident of birth. Mr. Emeka Okala and Dr. M.D. Amadi insistence that Ikwerre a southern Igbo ethnic group is Benin compels me to continue to lend my voice to this baseless argument. The argument that Ikwerre is Benin is not rooted in any research, study or documented evidence. There is nothing to be gained either way in this argument. Nevertheless, it is very important that the younger and future generations are not fed with this falsehood, especially when it comes from educated persons who append the titles of Doctor and Reverend to their names. Every research, study, moonlight stories told by the elders point to the undisputable fact that Ikwerre is a Southern Igbo ethnic group or a tribe within the Igbo nation like Ngwa, Etche, Owerri, Asa, Umuahia, etc . The southern Igbo group share Igbo language with varying dialects and customs. For instance, they reverend cola nut, tap and drink mainly raffia palm tree wine while other Igbo tap and drink palm trees wine. They are yam and cassava farmers. The southern Igbo groups were mainly in the larger Owerri province before Aba-Umuahia, and Rivers provinces were carved out of it. In 1922/23 Port Harcourt in Ikwerre land became the capital of old Owerri province. Owerri Provincial Assembly had representatives that comprised mainly illiterate chiefs from the stand point of English language. Dialogue among provincial and district councils were in local language. Igbo was the official language of Owerri provincial council. None of the councilors including the Ikwerres in the provincial council representing Diobu and other Ikwerre areas ever complained. They fully participated in the proceedings of the council. The only interpreters were to interpret local Nigerian languages to the provincial governor and the district officer who were Europeans. This argument has been going on for too long in this forum, but Dr. M.D, Amadi has added threats of court action perhaps at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or any other United Nations court with subject matter jurisdiction over such matters as the alleged forceful assimilation of Ikwerre group. I am anxiously looking forward to be included in the court action as a defendant even though, I am not representing the Igbo or any structured group. I am simply putting down what I heard from the elders and what my research revealed. As a kid I spent most of my holidays in Ikwerre going to farms with relatives, and as a young man I also lived and worked with them. I have an avalanche of documentary evidence that will assist any court make informed determination and perhaps burry this issue for good. I believe the court action will also include the following listed Ikwerre chiefs and nobles. Some may be sued posthumously but their records will speak for them. I am also sure that Mr. Okala and Dr. M.D, Amadi, the non Ikwerre Igbo are not speaking or representing any Ikwerre group but are speaking for themselves. They should make good their threat. Let me remind them that “if a bee perches on a human skin without stinging it becomes a house fly” The following link leads to Privy Council decision on Port Harcourt and the representatives of Ikwerre, Diobu or Port Harcourt and other Division with then Owerri Province. http://books.google.com/books?id=hoHv7__4TXYC&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=privy +counci\l+decision+on+port+harcourt/ nigeria&source=bl&ots=FbdqVtjBqP&sig=plBZvCv0CIw-b10\ zu5DL5fM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jyycUZraBZTryAHe8IGoAQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=pr \ivy%20council%20decision%20on%20port%20harcourt%2Fnigeria&f=false Other sources are: University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angelis California University of California Press Ltd London, England Copyright @ 1974 by the Regents of University of California ISBN: 0-520-02451-6 Library of Congress Card Number : 73-76115 Printed in United States of America The following are from the above references. They clearly indicate that Ikwerre Chiefs, Ezes, Legislatures and Municipal councilors from time immemorial claim Igbo as their tribe. These Ikwerre Legislators, Parliamentarians and Municipal Councilors maintained that they are Igbo as the records indicate. I challenge Mr. Emeka Okala and Dr. M, D. Amadi to produce records with similar information in support of their claims. [/b] 5 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by after1: 8:20am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[s] IGBOPRINCE:[/s] Tell your ugly father to fuckoff, the moronic dingbat was useless till cruel death snatch him away, may his cursed soul rest in hell. Gala hawkers like you make me laugh, I dont take any redmud akpu eating bastard like serious cos you have been cursed from womb. I just add to your misery and tell you the raw truth. Go choke on your mother's smelly pu/ssy. Bastard 2 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by after1: 8:21am On Aug 21, 2015 |
attacker231: Tonychristopher is truly impotent. Shame 2 Likes
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Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by pazienza(m): 8:22am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[b] In 1922/23 Port Harcourt in Ikwerre land became the Capital of Owerri province --- Page 269 Appendix 2 Page 246 Port Harcourt Parliamentarians from 1945 - 1966 Appendix 3 Page 247 Port Harcourt Municipal Councilors 1955 ---- 1958 D.D.”Diobu” Nsiegbe Ikwerre Ibo Port Harcourt Division J.W. Ogbondah Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division Appendix 4 Pages 248---250 Port Harcourt Municipal Councilors 1958 --- 1961 E Aguma: Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division M.W. Dickson: Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division G.P.A. Nwagwu: Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division J. A. Otuonye: Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division R. O. Owuru Ikwerre Ibo Diobu Port Harcourt Division Appendix 5 Pages 251 – 253 Port Harcourt Municipal Councilors 1961 – 1964 S.W. Atako: Ikwerre Ibo Port Harcourt Division R. Chikere Ikwerre Ibo Port Harcourt Division E. Chukwu Ikwerre Ibo Port Harcourt Division Chief Joseph Wobo Ikwerre Ibo Port Harcourt Division Additional information can be extracted from the sources indicated above. The people have maintained that they are Igbo even when they were in Ricers Province. As regards the name Ikwerre emanating from the people in a chorus “Ekwelam” we have agreed when Sir F.D. Laggard, the then Governor of Southern Nigeria asked the people a question, if they have agreed for their land to be used for the sea port and railway terminal through an Igbo interpreter is ludicrous and the greatest fabrication of the century. There was no Igbo interpreter or other Ikwerres from Isiokpo, Igruta, Elele or any other Ikwerre towns or villages that was associated with the negotiations for acquiring land for development of Port Harcourt that resulted in HAGROVE AGREEMENT of 1912, but Diobu people who are the owners of the land. The records indicated that Chief Daniel Kalio, the head of Okirika chiefs and and his assistant chief Samson Adoki were the interpreters. Chief Kalio was the chief negotiator for the colonist. He was paid three thousand for his services. The lands acquired for the terminal and seaport were Diobu farm lands of Iguocha and Obomotu. Iguocha and Obomotu are Ikwerre Ibo names.. The negotiations took place at chief Wobo and chief Atako compounds respectively. In Sir Lugar’s dispatch No. 103, paragraph 10 to the secretary of state for the colonies he said, Inter alia: “ I have already taken steps to acquire the land before fictitious claims and artificial inflations should have increased the difficulty of acquisition. The occupiers belong to a single village named Diobu ------" It did not mention Ikwerre but Diobu, even though Diobu is in Ikwerre a southern Igbo ethnic group. An Ikwerre man from Isiokpo, Iguruta, Choba etc, has nothing to do with land in Diobu. Land tenure in Igbo land including Ikwerre is based on family, linage, and village. In another dispatch to the Secretary of State for the colonies dated August 1913, Lord Lugard stated that Iguocha and Obomotu are the lands on which the seaport and the terminal shall be built. He added that Iguocha and Obomotu are Ikwerre Ibo Names. [/b] 2 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by pazienza(m): 8:25am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[b] The Willinkson Commission of 1958 As it relates to Port Harcourt and ethic make up of Rivers Province, the Commission Stated in Chapter 5 of its report as follows: “The Rivers Province was a recent formation and was designed to meet local standing complains of the people ---------. It includes the two divisions of Brass and Degema both overwhelming Ijew and Ogoni Division inhabited, almost entirely by a tribe of the same name. The former Rivers province also including 300, 000 Ibos of which 250,000 are in Ahoada Division and 45,000 Port Harcourt towns. Port Harcourt town is a town of recent growth and rapidly increasing importance. It is built on land originally belonging to outlaying branch of the Ibo tribe.” Dr M.D. Amadi’s article sent on June 12, 2013, to Mr. Emeka Okala the Clearing House for None =Ikwerre Igbo for publication touched on several issues that do not relate to the subject matter in question. However, efforts shall be geared to addressing relevant topics of Ikwerrre being an integral part of Igbo land with very few exceptions. I shall also attach my earlier comments on this matter with the hope that the question thereto shall be addressed. It is untrue that the hinterland Igbo calls Ikwerre people Di – ali and the Ikwerres call the Igbo Isuama. Di-ali is a southern Igbo word. It has several synonymous with Di-ala, and nwadiala. They all mean indigenous, free born, not a stranger, etc. An Ikwerre is di-ali in Ikwerre land; an Ngwa, Umuahia, and owerri are di- ala in their place or ethnic group respectively. Isuoma means stranger, none indigenous. It is derogatorily used on migrant or seasonal laborers by Owerri, Ikwerre, Etche and Ngwa people. The Ngwa and Asa people interchange that word with Nwa-Ohuhu. “Mbara” is how Ikwerre people end their music. I have not heard Ikwerre people called that name. People may make fun of it. The use of those words whether derogatory or not abound. How about Nwanmoghi, for Ibibio, Anang, and Effik, Nyamiri, koboko and okoro for the Igbo. These are mere display of ethnocentrism. Their use is very insignificant to be linked to Ikwerre not being Igbo. You guys need to be well travelled in Nigeria and other parts of Igbo land in particular. Your charge of Biafra not defending Port Harcourt is very disappointing and makes your reader wonder if you have ever read any material on wars let alone Nigeria-Biafra war. Did Enugu, Onitsha, Aba, Ikot-ekpene not over run by the federal troops. This is my first time of hearing that a country at war will purposely refuse to defend any part of her territory and in the case of Biafra, to not defend a city as viable as Port Harcourt. The first planned industrial layout in West Africa planned by the former Eastern Region government under the premiership Dr. M.I. Okpara. I agree with Dr. M.D. Amadi that certain topic injected into this discussion has no relevance here. Post civil war abandoned property issue is one of them. The Ikwerres had no hand in the abandoned property scan of depriving people the sweet of their labour. Diobu people are by no standard backward. As early as 1927 Chief Wobo had dragged the Attorney General of Nigeria to court over the ownership of some parts of Port Harcourt. The case climbed the judicial ladder to the Privy Council. Diobu chiefs wouldn’t have remained passive while the hinterland Igbos who helped developed the city built houses without the permission of the owners of the land. It should be noted that in the Southern areas it was considered abomination to sell land. In southern Igbo townships of Port Harcourt, Aba, and Owerri, there were two types of tenants; the customary and conventional tenants. The customary tenants were the first to acquire their property from the indigenous people after satisfying the traditional requirements prescribed by the local land tenure system. There were no deeds to be conveyed and no western survey system but the natives showing the tenant the boundaries of the land given to him or her. No documented evidence of the allocation of the property. The second badge involved conveyance of deeds and are the conventional tenant who actually bought theirs when things had change. The government had acquired and surveyed the township. The custom of not selling land had been relaxed. This group surveyed and obtained the necessary documentation associated with real estate recordation and conveyance of deed. These two classes of tenants are still obtainable at Ogbor Hill, Ngwa Road and Over Rail/ Ama Ogbonna areas of Aba Ngwa, and Owerri. In Port Harcourt the abandoned property was a carefully planned and executed scheme by the Ijew group who had wanted to get a foothold or a piece of Port Harcourt. They carefully targeted the customary tenants. Some of the Ijews themselves occupying the waterfronts are customary tenants of Diobu also. At the cessation of hostilities in 1970, they refused to vacate the building they occupied when the owners ran out of Port Harcourt for safety. They successfully got the government of the day to support them and demanded that the returnees present documents of purchase of their property to reclaim them. The customary tenants had no documents in the first place. Their host communities, landlords and neighbors know them, but, none of these were part of the requirements when they obtained their property from their landlords. The conventional tenants who had their documents reclaimed theirs. The question is where these property owners not paying taxes on their property? Why didn’t the Government on their end, use their tax records to determine who owns which property? The Ikwerres had no hand in Abandoned Property saga rather they distinguished themselves in handling the situation and used diplomacy to avert massacre, the Asaba style. Vincent Erondu [/b] http://www.elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/16602-ikwerre-is-igbo 2 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by pazienza(m): 8:29am On Aug 21, 2015 |
Ikwerre has the right to become whatever they want to be today. But they don't have the right to distort history. Every attempt by them to re write history will always be brutally challenged by proud Igbos within and outside Ikwerreland. 1 Like |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by SUBWAY101(m): 8:33am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[s] tonychristopher:[/s] This is the reason I dont pity you when those guys deal with you and your family. Your family pics is everywhere on google but you are here arguing with me about where i come from. Are you mad? I am Awori and Yoruba and this fool who happens to be a biafra is still arguing with me. I leave you for those that curse and hammer you daily. Maggot 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by SUBWAY101(m): 8:35am On Aug 21, 2015 |
IGBOPRINCE: Your senile mother is the stypid one here. She is even the inbecile and most useless person here. You bastard will surely regret the route you are now taking, trying to rewritw history. So anyone that open a thread on nairaland must be yoruba? You are a certified bastard, may boko haram wipe your generations off the surface of earth. Hediotic animal 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by SUBWAY101(m): 8:36am On Aug 21, 2015 |
xtrorse: You can go choke on your mothers smelly overused pu.ssy. bastard son of a deranged village goat, an ediot from a worthless and shitty tribe. Ogun kill you. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by after1: 8:39am On Aug 21, 2015 |
tonychristopher: They said your daughter was fathered by your elder bro. Chai, Na wao. See as you spoil your own life cos of foolishness, spits... 2 Likes
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Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by Passingshit(m): 8:39am On Aug 21, 2015 |
Jesusloveyou:And u think u know my history more than I do? |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by pazienza(m): 8:44am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[b] Barrister Uche Okwukwu you are known by many people for different things, controversial is one of them. Once, you were quoted as saying that Ikwerres are Igbos just as you were also quoted as supporting the MASSOB struggle at a time. Can you react to these sayings? Yes, my name is Uchechukwu Okwukwu. I am an Igbo man. I have said it in different fora, the Willink report is available, the Ph’D work of Late Chief Aguma in University of Ibadan 1977 is available, other reports are also available. There is a fundamental difference between a nation and a tribe. A tribe speaks a dialect, a Nation speaks a language. Some Ikwerre people agreed that they are from Igbo, some say they are from Benin heritage. Scientifically, there are parameters we use to determine things, the sociological, spiritual, geographical and historical. If you say you are from Benin, come with your proof and show us how you came from Benin. There is no common thing that trace Ikwerre lineage to Benin. There is no single common Edo language in the Ikwerre land. None. So, those who, in falsification of languages, say other wise, should come forward with their proof. In a study carried out by the Niger Delta group in 1976, under the Niger Delta spirit, edited by Prof Alagoa, the Ikwerre was clearly pointed out as Igbos. See, to lose a war is bad-the post-war Nigeria saw the two groups, the Igbos and Niger Delta as conquered people and the victorious North and the West clearly, unequal partners in a new relationship that eventually emerged and in that unequal relationship, like the law of Osmosis, weaker solution is naturally drawn by the stronger solution. What happened was that if you said then, you’re an Igbo, you are hated because you’re a Biafran you committed a crime, your master is in Cote d’Ivoire you raised up arms against the Federal Government, forgetting that according to Gabriel Onyeke’s Commission of enquiry 30,000 Easterners were massacred. So everybody said I am not Igbo purely as a survival syndrome. Why would you say you are Igbo, when you were not wanted? Of course, my name is Uche Okwukwu, so you can ask me my name and I will say’ am not Igbo, because if I say I was Igbo, I will be punished, but you would agree with me in this state that the great and mighty of Ikwerre land agreed that they were all Igbos. They include late Francis Ellah, former Secretary to the Rivers State government who said he was an Igbo man, the late Okugbule Wonodi, former registrar of the University of Port Harcourt said the same. Chief C. C. Nwuche said he is an Igboman, so what crime has Uchechukwu Okwukwu committed? What is the contention of Ogbakor Ikwerre on this? Do you belong to Ogbakor Ikwerre? Ogbakor Ikweere is an umbrella socio- cultural body, it has never said no Ikwerre man should have a different opinion on any issue. Do they agree with you on this issue? No, Ogbakor Ikwerre doesn’t need to agree with me because, it has never, ever driven any Ikweere man for identifying with the Igbos or one who said, he is an Igbo man. We hope they will not sanction you? They never drove away Okugbule Wonodi, they are not thinking of that because there are available records to show, everybody wrote with his own hand writing. When people who went to school wrote in their own handwriting, when they were not biased, people wrote tribe and nation, such records are available. What happens in this country is that we like to suppress truth. Believe me, this is the biggest shame coming from this part of the black race, it is not a courageous race ,the race is always very petty. Today’s US President Barack Obama told American voters I am pure Black American” be said, my father came here to get scholarship to study Medicine, because of internal crisis, and then government received Obama’s father into the US. The Kenyan’s son said my name is Barack Obama ,my background is Kenya. He never said I come from America and I will answer Bush or White. ,if it were in Nigeria, he would start answering another name or remove Barack Hussein Obama, because America had problem with the Muslim extremists, then. Do you think that the MASSOB struggle for a Biafran nation is realisable under the Nigerian Government? Every struggle under the sun is realisable, every dream you have can be realised. I asked because most Ikwerres say they are not Igbos. It is not what we feel or think, many may speculate that I am a multi-millionaire, but I am not a millionaire, it is just an opinion. I have said and quote me, Uche Okwukwu, take me up, put me down, bury me 5ft underground, I am an Igbo man. What is wrong with that? I have said it before and I have given great names who also said they were Igbos too, identity is very important see, I read a book sometimes in London. I recalled the history of the Samarians, and I read it in the monastery, and beheld how a man was asked the question, who are you? When he mentioned his name, the man asked him again, do you remember what happened to your people? He answered, no, so, the man then told him to go back and read his history because, the Samarians are today a lost tribe, because they refused to read their history Again in Geneva in 1998? I met a senator from the US, attending the meeting of the unrepresented United Nations Organisation. The man said he was Asyrian, and everybody was shocked but he said it. That he is from Asyria, the most interesting thing was that the man could read and write in Asyrian language, even though there is no country today, called Asyria. I took him up on that and he said, the worst thing that can happen to a man is to deny his own root, out of fear, cowardice, intimidation. When you do that, on the long wrong, you pay dearly for it, if you are not careful, your geneology disappears from the face of the earth. Is that why you were once said to have supported the hoisting of the Biafran flag in Rivers State? MASSOB is an idea, I believe in ideas and in what I call appropriate fiscal principles and I believe in many other progressive principles. When we go into the river to fish, there are all kinds of fishes, Tilapia, and the rest, but some other persons may be looking for the type of fish that is not known to us and which is not too popular. The Movement for the Actualization of the Soverign State of Biafra raised the flag of Biafra (MASSOB) in 2000, because they perceived injustice, and that perceived injustice they believed, could only be addressed when a peaceful process produces a clearer political space. The Ogoni people raised a flag in 1990 when they felt that they were being oppressed, they had a national anthem, I have attended a meeting of Odua Peoples Congress, (OPC) when a flag was raised, even when it was from the Yoruba nation but because these people speak Igbo and you understand Igbos are people that are hated in Nigeria. Whatever they say the talk is: bring them let’s kill and sacrifice them. They were not the first to raise a national flag. The first flag was raised by the Arewa, before Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu raised the Biafran Republic’s flag, but nobody discussed it. They suppressed it, the British intelligence suppressed it, the truth is that I subscribe to the fundamental principles of Biafra because it is a foundation that supported that the issues be addressed. The Blackman’s rights to get dignity and survival is one. What the Igbo man is saying is we must go back to the table and negotiate and discuss. The Ijaw man for instance said, I am producing oil, but I buy it more expensively in Nembe than others buy it in Sokoto, lets discuss it, Ogoni man said, you started drilling oil from Ogoni kingdom in 1958,we raised our voices, you killed our people, let’s discuss, Igboman said of all the six geo political regions in Nigeria, we alone have just five states, others have six. For that reason, we have 15 senators only, when the North have more, let’s discuss, Ikwerre man said out of the 774 local government Areas in the country, Ikwerre with their land mass and populations have only four local government areas, is an issue, lets discuss, that is how nations move forward. You don’t move the people forward by supressing them for their agitations. If you do that, you compel them to resort to violence and I don’t pray and subscribe to violence because of my background and training, I believe that it is important to jaw-jaw than war-war, so it is important to discuss and talk, there are many different issues bothering the people. Dialogue is the answer. [/b] http://www.thetidenewsonline.com/2011/09/14/‘i-gave-the-last-n4-4m-acn-fund-to-dr-sekibo’/ 1 Like |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by pazienza(m): 8:51am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[b] By Ochereome Nnanna
ALTHOUGH there were varied positions on
the matter, in the end the General Sani
Abacha administration created Bayelsa out
of Rivers State in 1996”
The circumstances behind my joining a
delegation for the burial of His Royal
Majesty, Sunday Nnanta Woluchem, the
Epara Rebisi XI of Port Harcourt on
Saturday, April 21, 2012 is encapsulated
in the above quote taken from his burial
programme.
As the author of his yet to be published
biography, former Chief of General Staff,
retired Commodore Okoh Ebitu Ukiwe,
asked me to join his delegation to bury a
royal father who, along with Ukiwe and
others, played leading roles in the
creation of today’s Rivers and Bayelsa
states between 1993 and 1996.
When the civil war started in 1967 and
Biafra lost control of Port Harcourt to the
Federal forces, the newly created Rivers
State was handed over to the Ijaw. Ijaw
leaders continued to maintain that Rivers
State, with Port Harcourt as its capital,
was created for them as reward for ceding
their coastal terrain to the Federal side,
thus making the sea blockade of Biafra
possible. The Ijaw groups claimed to
constitute the majority and continued to
dominate the state both during military
and civilian dispensations. With time,
however, the Igbo speaking people of the
state, particularly the Ikwerre nationality,
decided they wanted a state of their own
where they would be able to assert their
own political and economic interests.
This was what led to the quest for the
creation of Port Harcourt State. However,
the Ijaws felt if such a state was created
they would become estranged in a city
they have been part and parcel of since it
was founded by the colonialists. In fact,
they had even started portraying Port
Harcourt as the capital of a future Ijaw
state. Thus was born a great rivalry
between the Ijaw-speaking and Igbo-
speaking groups for the control of Rivers
and between what was termed the
“Okrika-Ijaw” and “Ikwerre-Igbo” over the
“ownership” of Port Harcourt. The
gruesome murder of Dr Obi Wali, the
leader of the Ikwerre political front by yet-
to-be ascertained assassins in 1992,
owed to this tussle, which often led to
street battles between Okrikans and
Ikwerres. [/b] 1 Like |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by pazienza(m): 8:53am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[b] Meanwhile, the late father of Nigeria’s
nationalism, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, had
discussed the best strategies for reducing
the animosity between the Igbos and their
Minority neighbours as well as dousing
the ethnic tension between Ikwerres and
their riverine co-indigenes of Rivers State.
It was agreed that as the touted largest
Minority group, the Ijaw needed a state of
their own. But with their emotional
attachment to Port Harcourt, how would
Rivers State be split without creating a
permanent ethnic war front in Nigeria’s
premier oil city?
With the Ijaw groups obviously being
favoured by the Northern-led Federal
Government, Eze Woluchem, a lawyer who
was installed paramount ruler of Port
Harcourt in 1977 turned to Dr Azikiwe,
appealing for him to support the
aspirations of his Igbo kinsmen in the
struggle. An ageing “Zik” referred the
Eze’s delegation to Commodore Ukiwe,
who had become Zik’s close political
confidant. The Eze’s delegation of four,
which included the late Chief Okogbule
Wonodi and Chief Andrew Uchendu, met
with Ukiwe in his office in Victoria Island.
Their proposal was that Port Harcourt
State should only be for Igbo-speaking
Rivers people, while the Ijaw-speaking
part would be named New Rivers State.
On the other hand, the Kalabaris did not
want to be parted with Rivers State,
neither did the Okrikas, and Ukiwe advised
that it would be “unstrategic” to cut out
Bonny, Opobo, Kalabari and Okrika, apart
from the fact that the Head of State,
General Abacha, who was pro-Ijaw, might
be pushed not to create any new state at
all.
Between Ukiwe and the Ikwerre delegation,
and taking into account the expressed
needs of others, the maps of the present
Rivers State and Bayelsa State were drawn
and presented to Abacha, who found it
acceptable.
On October 1, 1996, General Abacha
included Bayelsa as one of the six new
states approved by the Provisional Ruling
Council, PRC. The postulations put
together by Ukiwe and the Rebisi’s
delegates worked like magic. Today the
Ijaws have a state of their own with a
capital (Yenagoa) which is being styled
the “Jerusalem of the Ijaw Nation”. The
Igbo-speaking groups in Rivers State also
have a state in which they constitute a
comfortable majority and have led since
1999. The issue of “ownership” of Port
Harcourt has also been (partially)
resolved, as Governor Chibuike Amaechi
has retrieved the Crown Lands being
claimed by the Ikwerres and Okrikans into
government custody. [/b] 1 Like |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by pazienza(m): 8:55am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[b] In fact, he has pressed on with the establishment of New Port Harcourt in virgin land within Ikwerre heartland. The ethnic tension is still there somewhat, but it is no longer at the level of street battles and assassinations. Indeed, there were “varied positions on the matter”, but all is well that ends well. Rebisi Woluchem has returned to his Creator satisfied that he played a central role in giving his people the ground on which to stand and, along with other stakeholders within the Rivers state, chart a future devoid of rancour but full of promise for fast-tracked development for its many dwellers, both indigenes and non-indigenes. Let me note a sour irony of it all. A supposed beneficiary of Eze Woluchem’s struggles, Governor Chibuike Amaechi, was nowhere to be found during the funeral! He was reported to have travelled to the US during the burial. Funny, the Governor was also absent when the king’s wife died a few months before he followed her. I gathered that the Governor and the king had not managed to patch up their differences, as Eze Woluchem was solidly behind former Governor Peter Odili when he and Amaechi fought. As soon as he secured his second term of office, Amaechi voluntarily made up with his estranged godfather, Odili. Useful lesson: Be careful how you follow a politician into an enmity. You won’t know when they will make up and leave you in the lurch! [/b] http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/04/rebisi-in-history/ 1 Like |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by cheruv: 9:02am On Aug 21, 2015 |
onenaira3:Onenaira, E nwere otu eri m meghere..nkata akpaga ngaahu a di aña banye na akuko ndi Ofei'.kemgbe ahu kam matara otu o naadi ha ma asi na ndi ijebu,awori na egun/ogu abughi Yoloba. https://www.nairaland.com/1975320/ancient-igbo-rule-over-parts N'eri a,I gaahu na oforo ka laudate bewe akwa ![]() ![]() ![]() Ya mere, mgbe obula ha butere akuko ndiIgbo SS abughi igbo,anyi elughachiri ha otu ndi ijebu na ndi si abughi ndiOfei'. In the cold war,my technique is called MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION ![]() 3 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by pazienza(m): 9:05am On Aug 21, 2015 |
Isn't it funny that Ijaws were busy leading the minorities shout over non existent Igbo domination in the Eastern region, but when they( Ijaws) were made the kings of the minorities in the old Rivers state, they did no better, they favoured only but themselves and neglected the rest of the minorities, which led to the demand for Ph state by the Igboids in the old PH. Now the Igboids are in control of Rivers state after the bulk of Ijaws were sent to Bayelsa, but have the Igboids themselves done better? Since the return of democracy in 1999, the Igboids in Rivers state have cornered the political leadership of Rivers state, they are now guilty of the very thing they accused the Ijaws of, with the likes of Ogoni, Kalabari, Andoni, Degema, Okrika forced to keep playing second fiddle to the Igboids, where is the equity? What the region needs is true federalism, let all groups both small and large control their resources, Biafra will guarantee this for all of us. 1 Like |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by tonychristopher: 9:14am On Aug 21, 2015 |
SUBWAY101: who really cares? do you think that I am bothered with anything that they post there claiming its me...i luagh, yes lets assume they post the picture but does it change the fact...the question is can you man up and tell us where you come from ? 1 Like |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by cheruv: 9:16am On Aug 21, 2015 |
SUBWAY101:This is the undiluted truth! Ijebu,Awori and Ogu are not Yoloba ![]() If you're from any of these tribes, know it today you're not Yoloba.insult me all you like..but the truth still remains the truth. Knowing this fact made me understand why some Igbos tag Lagos as no man's land.these nations were already there before your ancestor Odudunwa fell like the watchers from heaven and they'd continue to be there. ![]() 1 Like |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by tonychristopher: 9:19am On Aug 21, 2015 |
Nice post my brother pazienza: 2 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by SUBWAY101(m): 9:20am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[s] tonychristopher:[/s] You are known for you lies. Why do you lie so much bro? So you are ashamed of your own pics that you cant even claim whats yours. You are a shameless person, chai.. lying this way cos of your own pics...omg 3 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by SUBWAY101(m): 9:22am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[s] cheruv:[/s] I just dey laugh you cos you dont know whats up. You will cry soon, continue with your rubbish. Those that will deal with you will do so to hurt you badly. You think you all have monopoly of rewriting history about people...ahahahaha. The game is on. 3 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by after1: 9:24am On Aug 21, 2015 |
SUBWAY101: Abeg dont loud it. Lets see who will get tired ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by tonychristopher: 9:27am On Aug 21, 2015 |
I notice that most people that are non igbo are so keen in telling us who is igbo or not and when they are not sure nor have stepped foot in igbo speaking areas be it in East of Niger Delta. It baffles me why they are so keen in seeing igbo divide, these set of people are so obnoxious that I have come to detest ever dealing with them online. These kids can be so nausauting. I never knew most of these people from Western Side of niger will want to re write people history just the other day they claimed that benin people are one of the sons of oduduwa...in that thread a benin son made them understand that they begot oduduwa...now they are ejaculating over ikwerre igboness or not. I have ikwerre in laws and they have not denied igboness even Rotimi Amaechi said he is an igbo so why this craze for anything igbo. Maybe in their stupidity they forgot that we have Ikwerre , Nkwerre, Owerre, Okwelle, and other igbo groups in OHA NAEZE ndi Igbo...so why this madness. I wonder why people are so jobless. Most of these guys are so jobless that they post and hang around nairaland daily..watch the time of their post, so many of them are so disoriented in life that they do not have plan for the day some wake up cursing as early as 8 AM ...not that is called been terribly jobless and I do not engage those. Now i understand that the devil uses the idle man as a warehouse Peace ..well most ikwerre can claim edo, Jamaica, bolivian even Haitian but i have seen proud ikwerre that say they are igbo like ezepromoe ..so why this madness 2 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by tonychristopher: 9:32am On Aug 21, 2015 |
SUBWAY101: So serving you people in your own pill you do not love it? Oh no wonder, but you are here telling us who is igbo or not...maybe i will tell you who is Yoruba or not..maybe you have forgotten that we have information on line today and information can be sourced in few seconds. I will advise you to stay away from who is igbo or not...that is not your forte and stop rewriting people history..can you even imagine your still in igbo thread and your happy that ikwerre history is been rewritten and when Yoruba fact is thrown aat you..you will want to hurt yourself or somebody... What you don’t love don’t use it on others. Karma is a terrible guest you know. So desist from causing division or confusion. We know ijebu, kabba and okun position on yorubahood but we let the sleeping dogs lie..so let your own sleeping dogs lie It doesn’t pay to be an irritant and nasty...have a good day. I have better things to do for the day 4 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by tonychristopher: 9:34am On Aug 21, 2015 |
after1:# i will get tired because I am busy...in short I am even tired..got work to do. have a great day...IKWERRE ARE FROM MARS, YORUBA ARE FROM MOON, IGBOS ARE FROM SUN , IJEBUS ARE FROM JUPITER, AWORI ARE FROM URANUS wif that will make your day so be it HAVE A BLESSED DAY SON I am TIRED...your correct. I have better things to do Pls dont quote me again...you won bye 1 Like |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by Nsonso: 9:35am On Aug 21, 2015 |
laudate: See ur life, you are running helter skelter confusedly seeking for refuge. So Adetona is yoruba but Amaechi is not Igbo? If u like visit ur oba Akiolu of lagoon kingdom for clarification, Ijebus and Aworis are not Yorubas. 4 Likes |
Re: Concrete Facts To Prove That Ikwerres Are Not Igbo But Edo by SUBWAY101(m): 9:38am On Aug 21, 2015 |
[s] tonychristopher:[/s] You lie for a living. Point out where i talk about ikweere rubbish. I was on this thread cos ediots like you said we are not Yoruba. I am a proud Awori man with a mom from Epe( Ijebu), and we are proudly Yoruba forever. I wont be on this thread if not for morons like you and the other jobless guy trying to post rubbish about my people. I cant stand liars like you christopher cos for you to even deny your own pics cos of shame, then no one should ever take you serious. I know you are hurt and angry cos some guys exposed your wretched life and your wife, you dont need to cry or pass your frustration on me. If you like call yourself ijaw or hausa, thats your life problem. 1 Like 1 Share |
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