₦airaland Forum

I love the Ijaws and how firmly they stood up to challenge the Oba of Bini and his egocentric claims. making a governor voted by even the Ijaws to be his servant... thanks to thr Gov for following the path of peace.

ijaws I know have tasted their bitter days and hence will never keep quiet to be marginalized and assaulted like slaves....

long Live the Niger Delta and all the tribes that makes up the region.

long live the people that always fought for the recognition of the Niger Delta.

Long live to all those who fought for peace in the Niger Delta.

Long Live to anyone who has the best interest of the Niger Delta at heart.

long Live Warri City
Long Live Bini City
Long Live PH CIty
Long Live Uyo City
Long Live Calabar City
Long Live Yanagoa City.

Long live to all those who love truth on Nairaland.
long Live to those realers who are factual in their arguments and not blinded by tribal sentiments..


God punish all those who claim to be who they are not on nairaland in other to cause trouble.

SHAKABOOM:
Wot a 30 feet container load of raw undiluted UGLEEE.
Na person governor be that?
The guy be like stubborn 1 week old unflushed Abokii black shiit

mehn see brutality.
I no for chop garri again

Afriifa:
I love the Ijaws and how firmly they stood up to challenge the Oba of Bini and his egocentric claims. making a governor voted by even the Ijaws to be his servant... thanks to thr Gov for following the path of peace.

ijaws I know have tasted their bitter days and hence will never keep quiet to be marginalized and assaulted like slaves....

long Live the Niger Delta and all the tribes that makes up the region.

long live the people that always fought for the recognition of the Niger Delta.

Long live to all those who fought for peace in the Niger Delta.

Long Live to anyone who has the best interest of the Niger Delta at heart.

long Live Warri City
Long Live Bini City
Long Live PH CIty
Long Live Oyo City
Long Live Calabar City
Long Live Yanagoa City.

Long live to all those who love truth on Nairaland.
long Live to those realers who are factual in their arguments and not blinded by tribal sentiments..


God punish all those who claim to be who they are not on nairaland in other to cause trouble.

Oyo or Uyo?

EternalTruth:
Oyo or Uyo?

Lol. my brother na uyo ooh

Afriifa:
see u.

wetin do me?

u neva see gentle man all ur creek life b4?

AdaFonju:
A POSITION PAPER PRESENTED TO HIS EXCELLENCY MR. GODWIN N. OBASEKI, GOVERNOR OF EDO STATE BY THE ELDERS AND LEADERS OF THOUGHT FROM THE FIVE IJAW KINGDOMS OF EDO STATE AND THE LEADERSHIP OF THE IJAW NATIONAL CONGRESS, EDO STATE CHAPTER ON FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY, 2018.
We, the elders and leaders from the five IJAW kingdoms of Edo state, namely; Egbema, Olodiama, Furupagha, Okomu, and Gbaran, have come in response to the Governor's gracious invitation for dialogue concerning the crisis generated by the derogatory press statement made by the Edo State Government and the Bini Traditional Council on the coronation of the Pere of Olodiama Kingdom.
Before, we begin, we want to make it bundantly clear that we adopt in their entirety all the publications made by various IJAW groups and the entire IJAW Nation as representing our position on the plight of the Ijaws of Edo State.[/b]
Firstly, we would like to thank your EXCELLENCY for the invitation and wish your EXCELLENCY and your Government Happy, peaceful and prosperous 2018.
Secondly, we "appreciate" your Excellency for the statements on the coronation of the Pere of Olodiama Kingdom, because those statements have brought to the limelight the injustice, marginalization and oppression the Ijaws of Edo State have suffered over the years in the hands of successive Government of Edo State and the Bini Monarch.
As a matter of principle, we desire to live and co-exist with our neighbors peacefully based on love and mutual respect for one another.
However, in Edo State we the Ijaws have been balkanized into three (3) Local Government Areas with the intention of making us politically irrelevant as we find ourselves as insignificant minorities in each of the three (3) Local Government Areas namely; Ovia South West, Ovia North East and Ikpoba Okha Local Government Areas into which we have been balkanized.
Beyond that, we have been derogatorily and variously referred to as migrants, settlers, strangers and tenants in our God given ancestral lands.
Attempts are being made to deny and deprived us of our inalienable right to choose and install our traditional rulers in our ancestral lands.Successive Governments acting on the prompting of the Bini Traditional Council have deliberately denied the Ijaw kingdoms in Edo State their right to development.We are therefore not surprised that Barr. Osarodion Ogie the current Secretary to the Edo State Government became the mouth piece of the Bini Traditional Council on the issue of the Coronation of the Pere of Olodiama Kingdom.
OUR POSITION:
The position of the five IJAW kingdoms of Edo State is as follows-:
1. We have been living in our ancestral lands centuries before the amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria in 1914. We are the aborigines of Edo State; we are no slaves to anyone; we not migrants neither are we settlers nor tenants to anybody. WE LIVE ON OUR ANCESTRAL AND GOD GIVEN LAND.
2. We are linguistically, culturally and geographical distinct from the Binis. We have our own traditional rulers to whom we owe allegiance and loyalty. Our communities and kingdoms had no links whatsoever to the Benin Kingdom until recently.
OUR DEMANDS
[b]1. We demand for the Edo State Government recognition of the traditional institutions of the Five IJAW kingdoms of Edo State such that the traditional rulers be recognized and given staff of office.
2. We demand in the interim for the immediate creation of three (3) Community Development Areas respectively as it is in Lagos and Bayelsa States.
3. We demand that these three community Development Areas once created should be made a house of Assembly Constituency in Edo State.
4. We demand for the creation of a separate Local Government Council Area and amalgamation of all the five IJAW kingdoms to be administered by the Local Government Area instead of the present three Local Government Areas into which they have been balkanized. After all, these kingdoms are all contiguous one to another especially by river transportation.
These demands are in line with the Federal Government Constituent Assembly report of 1988-1989, vol 2 page 492, where it was recommended that the Ijaw people in Ovia Local Government Area deserve a Local Government Area based on the criteria of (I) Riverine location (ii) Inaccessibility (iii) Not truly assimilated by the Bini (iv) Denied development ( inland based government) (v) Very rich in natural resources (vi) High Population.[/b]
The issue of non assimilation which was identified in the Constituent Assembly report of 1988-1989 is still the same reoccurring factor responsible for the friction between the Ijaws of Edo State and the Binis up till now and the only solution still remains the creation of separate administrative units for the Ijaws of Edo State.
We are Ijaw people and we detest and firmly reject any attempt by the Oba of Benin to appoint and / or impose persons with alien or strange tittles such as Odionwere, Enogie and Okao etcetera, as representatives of the Oba of Benin in our communities.
The Oba of Benin cannot appoint any person to represent his interest and the Bini Traditional institutions in any of the Five IJAW Kingdoms in Edo State.
We must put on record that the Ijaw nation has hierarchy in leadership. Therefore, we are surprised that your Excellency decided to invite your political appointees as representing the Ijaws of Edo State in a matter as serious as this.
For the avoidance of doubt, the Ijaw National Congress and IJAW Council of Traditional Rulers, Chiefs and Elders are the highest level of leadership and Youth Council as the youth mouth piece.Be that as it may, we the Ijaws of Edo State are law abiding citizens and will continue to maintain that status.
Long live the Ijaws of Edo State
Long live the Ijaw Nation
Long live Edo State
Signed:
Rev. Prof. C.A. Dime
Mr. Edmund Doyah-Tiemo
Rev. Dr. (Col.Rtd) Joel G. Jibor
Chief Macaulay Ayiwe
Hon. Godwin Wuluku
Chief Sunny Ajele
Hon. A. P. Ebello
Chief Gaius Uruopa
Barr. Chief Robinson Esite
Chief Robinson Ogunkoru
Engr. Pius Donyegha
Hon. Engr. Donben Donyegha
Dcn Ebifagha Kiyah

I love this. You can't threathen an Ijaw man and cow him into submission. When you threaten an Ijaw man he becomes more emboldened and audacious. God bless the Ijaw nation.

Afriifa:
Lol. my brother na uyo ooh

that's my city and place of residence.

Abeg we no want fight but peace 4ever

[quote author=TonyeBarcanista post=63969206][s]I am happy that Governor Obaseki is returning to his senses. I hope the Oba of Bini also allow sense of reasoning prevail (though he has no choice).

The Olodiama Ijaw clan in Edo state are 101% aborigines in Edo state. Nobody, irrespective of how highly or lowly placed can bully or silence them.

The entire Ijaw nation, with population of over 15 million people, spanning across 6 States of the Niger Delta, including Delta, Bayelsa, Ondo, Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Edo states and constituting over 10% of the Nigeria population, are firmly resolved to remain firm in advancing the noble agenda of Ijaw nation without fear or favor to anyone within or outside the Niger Delta and SouthSouth.


Once again, kudos to Governor Obaseki, peace is all we want in Edo and Nigeria!!![[/s]/quote]

This is the sort of rubbish you post when you are doubly cursed by your chi to be an Ijaw man and a PDP member.

The Ijaw fishermen in Edo having nothing to lose, will gain much by war. Our peace moves buy time for a strategic encirclement of these people who have proved by word and action to be the southern version of the Fulani.

AdaFonju:
Peace loving people? Iin okor?
Cc Afriifa EternalTruth Tonyebarcanista jesse01

Obaseki don see say Ijaws of the dreaded River state will combine forces with others to assist their brother in Edo na so him hurry to make peace before Edo state becomes a conquered territory. Obaseki wouldn't wanna experience the same thing that happened to the afonjas when Fulani overtook Illorin in Yorubaland and it became a seat of Caliphate

[quote author=IamaNigerianGuy post=63977917][/quote]I thought you lots will hide your face in shame but you are still ranting on nairaland, your governor is begging for peace and you a nonentity still they sharp your mouth, shameless beings, we have proven to be ready on any way you want it, Politically, spiritually and otherwise, una too small to challenge Izon otu

Let peace be still

AdaFonju:
I thought you lots will hide your face in shame but you are still ranting on nairaland, your governor is begging for peace and you a nonentity still they sharp your mouth, shameless beings, we have proven to be ready on any way you want it, Politically, spiritually and otherwise, una too small to challenge Izon otu

We are too small to challenge fishermen ? Lol

Let me ask you a question: If a day-laborer challenges a bank director to a fight on the streets of Lagos, do you think the director will be smart to decline ?

IamaNigerianGuy:
We are too small to challenge fishermen ? Lol

Let me ask you a question: If a day-laborer challenges a bank director to a fight on the streets of Lagos, do you think the director will be smart to decline ?

No the director will protest under the hot sun of street and cry on nairaland without going anywhere near the bank he claims to lead, and in the end beg the day laborer for peace to survive from extinction

EternalTruth:
that's my city and place of residence.

i so much love dat City..

Haa izon
Izon kimi emi
The Bini people, Itsekiri, Ilaje, Uhrobo are our brothers and being living together peacefully, even inter-marry.
But politics,Oil etc turned us into enemies.
Izon out odo!

Haa izon
Izon kimi emi
The Bini people, Itsekiri, Ilaje, Uhrobo are our brothers and being living together peacefully, even inter-marry.
But politics,Oil etc turned us into enemies.
Izon otu odo!

"we are the Aborigines of Edo state ;we are not slaves to anyone"


Now that looks like a punching below the belt ,how can Ijaw claim to be the Aborigines of Edo state instead of one of the Aborigines ?

That is too belligerent

9ja4show:
And yet still undeveloped, ijaws are lazy People , upon all the oil money

i feel ur pain.

H/E action is commendable,nice one..But Edo dem swear for Una??,,make una get handsome Gov***nor for once,biko!!

9ja4show:
And yet still undeveloped, ijaws are lazy People , upon all the oil money

.they will remain in penury in Edo State!... This is all for show

I like how this is worded. Straight and brutal.... If you don't like it do your worse. No time to be diplomatic...in some quarters.... Mention the damn name and let heaven fall...Oba of Benin

AdaFonju:
A POSITION PAPER PRESENTED TO HIS EXCELLENCY MR. GODWIN N. OBASEKI, GOVERNOR OF EDO STATE BY THE ELDERS AND LEADERS OF THOUGHT FROM THE FIVE IJAW KINGDOMS OF EDO STATE AND THE LEADERSHIP OF THE IJAW NATIONAL CONGRESS, EDO STATE CHAPTER ON FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY, 2018.
We, the elders and leaders from the five IJAW kingdoms of Edo state, namely; Egbema, Olodiama, Furupagha, Okomu, and Gbaran, have come in response to the Governor's gracious invitation for dialogue concerning the crisis generated by the derogatory press statement made by the Edo State Government and the Bini Traditional Council on the coronation of the Pere of Olodiama Kingdom.
Before, we begin, we want to make it bundantly clear that we adopt in their entirety all the publications made by various IJAW groups and the entire IJAW Nation as representing our position on the plight of the Ijaws of Edo State.[/b]
Firstly, we would like to thank your EXCELLENCY for the invitation and wish your EXCELLENCY and your Government Happy, peaceful and prosperous 2018.
Secondly, we "appreciate" your Excellency for the statements on the coronation of the Pere of Olodiama Kingdom, because those statements have brought to the limelight the injustice, marginalization and oppression the Ijaws of Edo State have suffered over the years in the hands of successive Government of Edo State and the Bini Monarch.
As a matter of principle, we desire to live and co-exist with our neighbors peacefully based on love and mutual respect for one another.
However, in Edo State we the Ijaws have been balkanized into three (3) Local Government Areas with the intention of making us politically irrelevant as we find ourselves as insignificant minorities in each of the three (3) Local Government Areas namely; Ovia South West, Ovia North East and Ikpoba Okha Local Government Areas into which we have been balkanized.
Beyond that, we have been derogatorily and variously referred to as migrants, settlers, strangers and tenants in our God given ancestral lands.
Attempts are being made to deny and deprived us of our inalienable right to choose and install our traditional rulers in our ancestral lands.Successive Governments acting on the prompting of the Bini Traditional Council have deliberately denied the Ijaw kingdoms in Edo State their right to development.We are therefore not surprised that Barr. Osarodion Ogie the current Secretary to the Edo State Government became the mouth piece of the Bini Traditional Council on the issue of the Coronation of the Pere of Olodiama Kingdom.
OUR POSITION:
The position of the five IJAW kingdoms of Edo State is as follows-:
1. We have been living in our ancestral lands centuries before the amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria in 1914. We are the aborigines of Edo State; we are no slaves to anyone; we not migrants neither are we settlers nor tenants to anybody. WE LIVE ON OUR ANCESTRAL AND GOD GIVEN LAND.
2. We are linguistically, culturally and geographical distinct from the Binis. We have our own traditional rulers to whom we owe allegiance and loyalty. Our communities and kingdoms had no links whatsoever to the Benin Kingdom until recently.
OUR DEMANDS
[b]1. We demand for the Edo State Government recognition of the traditional institutions of the Five IJAW kingdoms of Edo State such that the traditional rulers be recognized and given staff of office.
2. We demand in the interim for the immediate creation of three (3) Community Development Areas respectively as it is in Lagos and Bayelsa States.
3. We demand that these three community Development Areas once created should be made a house of Assembly Constituency in Edo State.
4. We demand for the creation of a separate Local Government Council Area and amalgamation of all the five IJAW kingdoms to be administered by the Local Government Area instead of the present three Local Government Areas into which they have been balkanized. After all, these kingdoms are all contiguous one to another especially by river transportation.
These demands are in line with the Federal Government Constituent Assembly report of 1988-1989, vol 2 page 492, where it was recommended that the Ijaw people in Ovia Local Government Area deserve a Local Government Area based on the criteria of (I) Riverine location (ii) Inaccessibility (iii) Not truly assimilated by the Bini (iv) Denied development ( inland based government) (v) Very rich in natural resources (vi) High Population.[/b]
The issue of non assimilation which was identified in the Constituent Assembly report of 1988-1989 is still the same reoccurring factor responsible for the friction between the Ijaws of Edo State and the Binis up till now and the only solution still remains the creation of separate administrative units for the Ijaws of Edo State.
We are Ijaw people and we detest and firmly reject any attempt by the Oba of Benin to appoint and / or impose persons with alien or strange tittles such as Odionwere, Enogie and Okao etcetera, as representatives of the Oba of Benin in our communities.
The Oba of Benin cannot appoint any person to represent his interest and the Bini Traditional institutions in any of the Five IJAW Kingdoms in Edo State.
We must put on record that the Ijaw nation has hierarchy in leadership. Therefore, we are surprised that your Excellency decided to invite your political appointees as representing the Ijaws of Edo State in a matter as serious as this.
For the avoidance of doubt, the Ijaw National Congress and IJAW Council of Traditional Rulers, Chiefs and Elders are the highest level of leadership and Youth Council as the youth mouth piece.Be that as it may, we the Ijaws of Edo State are law abiding citizens and will continue to maintain that status.
Long live the Ijaws of Edo State
Long live the Ijaw Nation
Long live Edo State
Signed:
Rev. Prof. C.A. Dime
Mr. Edmund Doyah-Tiemo
Rev. Dr. (Col.Rtd) Joel G. Jibor
Chief Macaulay Ayiwe
Hon. Godwin Wuluku
Chief Sunny Ajele
Hon. A. P. Ebello
Chief Gaius Uruopa
Barr. Chief Robinson Esite
Chief Robinson Ogunkoru
Engr. Pius Donyegha
Hon. Engr. Donben Donyegha
Dcn Ebifagha Kiyah

[quote author=Wawawi post=63978515]Haa izon
Izon kimi emi
The Bini people, Itsekiri, Ilaje, Uhrobo are our brothers and being living together peacefully, even inter-marry.
But politics,Oil etc turned us into ene

Living together peacefully yes. You can invite a man to your house. But will you let him takeover your house? No!

Ijaw are not aboriginal to Benin area. Yes they have lived in many riverine areas around Benin for a long time. Yes they even played a good part in expansion of Benin Empire. They were relied upon for seafaring by Royal military. In fact Ijaw largely made the sea journey to Lagos possible. Taking Lagos by Land only would have been more difficult distance wise.

I have many Ijaws as inlaws. We already intermarried as far back as early 1950s. Maybe even earlier. I have never heard any of them complain of marginalisation. I have nothing against Ijaw having their own leader or chief. But calling some small fishing villages kingdoms does not happen with Benin soil. It has never happened before and will not happen. There are other ethnic groups in Benin lands. Yoruboid people in Edo South are more than Ijaw. I know this for a fact. The most that exist are dukes/dukedoms. No other kingdoms.

I wonder how new kingdoms will improve the lot of Ijaw people?

Quite pathetic how Ijaw keyboard warriors are using inflammatory words making people to be calling Ijaw the Boko Haram of the South. But I know most Ijaw are not like that.

Do you think HRM Amayanabo of Brass has no right to clarify what obtains within his Kingdom? Well I think HRM Oba Ewuare II has the right to clarify chietaincy matter within his kingdom.

mtsheeew

Neimar:
mtsheeew

All this na for show, they will still remain in penury

ZorGBUooeh:
Ijaws are indeed great..I feel the peace talk has sumting to do with the ijaw attack on one community days back..Violence is truly the only language an oppressive black man understands.

The Ijaw have been attacking communities recently? And you think that's a good thing? How many people did you kill?

Themandator:
I like how this is worded. Straight and brutal.... If you don't like it do your worse. No time to be diplomatic...in some quarters.... Mention the damn name and let heaven fall...Oba of Benin

God bless you, you are a man of truth

[quote author=AreaFada2 post=63980709][/quote]Be here talking rubbish wen your governor is on his knees