₦airaland Forum

They say a cow does not know the value of its tail until it's cut off! When the flies come gathering on it, then it would remember how useful the tail was!

A bitter-sweet development. The state civil service needs to be weaned but then...

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Nice!

Until it happens, all is politics and causes no excitement.

Lajet:
Ijaw people keep on deceiving themselves we Nigeria's are aware that ijaw land starts and ends in Bayelsa state. Ijaw are settler in Rivers state, Edo, Delta and Ondo State, so the should stop this nonsense that Ijaw monarchs from 6 states meet.
Why the land grabbers not put Ndoki in Abia state as the usually claimed only on internet to make it 7 ijaws state. the have added Akwa ibom state I hope Akwa ibom people should call this people to order in time before they will take their land grabbing madness to another level. Can they tell us the name of the Monarchs from Akwa ibom state that attended the meeting Ijaw have started their propaganda again.

See painment! Take it easy; it shall be well with you!

A welcome development!

Seen

AxxeMan:
Ijaw tenants I tell you, you no gree eh

Them tell you, you no hear eh

Your mother tell you, you no gree

I warn you, you no hear- eh

For this south south where we dey

Ndi ogbe no dey play
ha ga-akokwa your way
Nwane le ehh

Dem nordey telli person una eye wan dey clear now!! una go run go tiny bayelsa last last it remains the ikwerre to do the needfull

My friend will you shut up and stop behaving like a man deprived of sex?

LGDON:
Why won't they interact

Are they not from the same state

Go to bayelsa and ask....when goodluck was president how the Ogbia people immiginalized Ijaws when it comes to appointments, jobs , scholarships

You won't understand what I mean and I don't want to explain. However, know that even parents and their children Do have issues!

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.

LGDON:
This is not opinion but fact.....this is what Ogbia history shows...they are not Ijaws ...they migrated from benin

Every Ogbia man knows that....I have lived with Ijaw and Ogbia people for a very long time...I even married one

That Ijaws and Ogbia people live in the same geographical region does not mean they are the same

If every Ogbia man knows that then who are the Ogbia people I interact with everyday in Ijaw forums on facebook?

Ijaws are a great people. No matter the animosity projected towards the Ijaw nation from any direction, the strength of the Ijaw nation will prevail. What we need is unity. A time shall come when our voice will be heard loud and clear, even to the hearing-impaired. Long live the Ijaw nation.

LGDON:
Ogbia people are not ijaw

Proove me wrong

Why do you think your inconsequential opinion about who is IJAW and who is not should matter enough to warrant a proof from him?

Dsov2016:
which head of state is it Jonathan the mistake

Can you or anybody in your familly in this life and the one to come, if any, be such a 'mistake'? See kids with no atom of respect!

Just imagine four more years of APC government! Many Nigerians would have crossed earthly borders to the great beyond! A party doing casual experiments with millions of lives is seeking to be entrusted with more years to finish off the ones that will be remaining after 2019! Una do well!

Let these people not start a situation that will worsen the already precarious existence of the ordinary Nigerian. All the loots they have recovered so far, I can't see how better the life of the average Nigerian has become as a result! They should let the Jonathans be. They should focus more on putting in place, measures that will prevent future uccurrences of corruption, not a display of slanted and bigoted bearing on fighting corruption, that may result in outcomes that may leave the average Nigerian on the street worse off!

So unfortunate!

Mouth action!

Nice piece. I had so much hope when Dickson came on board only to realize he's all just a mouth action governor. APC will fit him perfectly! It's so sad things are the way they are in Bayelsa in view of what could have been achieved if resources had been put to proper use.

estyvino:
As you don break am! na who go kon repair am!!

Lol

Congrats to him. I hope it translates to Igbegi.

Was it not these same people that were complaining that APC had not paid them for the jobs they did...that some even had to go to lagos to complain to Tinubu? Confused southerners that will be complaining of nothern lordship and maltreatment but won't think twice about bringing down their own at any cost for money. This ''give me some money and I'll do anything for you'' mentality will make you slaves and pawns to outsiders to always do what they want with you! Shame.

Smh. This is the reason the Niger Delta has been oppressed for ages, self-interest.

These would have been good questions if prompted by a genuine desire to know order than trying to justify some preconceived notions about the Ijaws that you latch onto. When you have a theif lurking around your house to dispossess you of your belongings will you leave your house and go far away without securing your house properly? If the oil found in their own backyard was not everything and not so important as you are alluding, why does your president value it more than the lives of your people killed by the fulanis? How much interest does he show when lives are lost and the response interval compared to a threat to the oil that you think the Ijaws should not be so concerned about? So many things are wrong in this country and as someone who is not from the Niger Delta, especially an Ijaw, who lives off the resources of the Ijaws, it will be difficult for you to understand the psychological implications of being a host without appreciation. Thanks

Smh. Some people are out of touch with reality!

Congrats to them and the Niger Delta.

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It seems like NDLEA is not alive to its responsibilities! How could the OP be so high on such drugs that shouldn't get close to our borders?

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It is well.