YORUBA BEWARE: IBORI IS A FOE

YORUBA BEWARE: IBORI IS A FOE

Many Urhobo and some short sighted Isekiri are celebrating the release of James Onanefe Ibori. But it is important to know that James is an enemy of the Yoruba race by the way he treated the Isekiri people. I will not go into much historicity here. If the reader doubts that the Isekiri are not pure Yoruba he/she should visit www.globalpeacearithmetic.blogspot.com. It is due to the facts outlined in the blog that the Ooni of Ife – the Alaiyeluwa , the foremost Yoruba king – came to attend the coronation of the Olu of Warri just a few days after he himself was crowned. As the jubilation continues for his release it is proper we say a few evil Ibori did to Isekiri and by extension the Yoruba race. This is risky however since Ibori is the father of the family that rules Delta till date (Governor Okowa 2016). But in the spirit of freedom of speech and being very sure of my facts I will present my facts one after the other.

1.     Ibori shifted the Headquarters of Warri South West Local Government area from Ogidigben to Ogbe-Ijoh. Yet the Ogbe-Ijohs were tenants of Olu of Warri (SC/450/65).

2.     Ibori approved a ‘king’ for Gbaramatu Ijaw clan, an evil never before seen. Yet , Gbaramatus were tenants to Omadinors(w/30/1962). It is with this false kingdom that that Gbaramatu used in trying to steal EPZ from Kpokpo an Isekiri community and acquiring a fake Maritime University in Okerenkoko, a legally nonexistent town. Oporoza(Ofuraja) the so called capital of Gbaramatu is in Ugborodo land (w/124/76). Kpokpo is an Isekiri community, suit no MCC/4/71. The Ijaws have no single land in that area. The Omadinor Isekiri who owned the land were descendants of Lenuwa in Ijebu Waterside.

3.     Ibori went ahead to create false wards in the three Warris. The picture was worse in Warri South West. Isekiri seven wards were made ten; Ijaw three wards were also made ten. This is the type of justice that Ibori preaches – a justice tainted with lies and oppression.

4.     Ibori cut a part of Efurokpe land and called it Otefe. On this piece of land which belonged to Toro Kubeinje he built the Delta State Polytechnic.

5.     Ibori intensified the land tussle in the Ogbe-Ijoh – Aladja axis by creating a false local government for the Ijaw tenants. With the creation of this false local government council, the Ijaws felt like landlord overnight and started fighting for more Isekiri lands in Aladja axis.  So much for the injustice of Ibori against Isekiri. The list is not exhausted; more will be written

What is to be done?

a.     Isekiri should be wary of Ibori and all his tricks

b.     Isekiri should think deeply on any suggestion brought by Ibori and his ruling elite in Delta

c.      Isekiri should always think of realigning with Yoruba in any form of restructuring.

d.     We know our detractors of old, we know our detractors of today, and no matter what new garb they may wear, we know their instinctive notorierity for mischief making.

By

Oritseweyinmi Oghanrandukun Olomu(St.Ifa)

YORUBA BEWARE: IBORI IS A FOE

YORUBA BEWARE: IBORI IS A FOE

Many Urhobo and some short sighted Isekiri are celebrating the release of James Onanefe Ibori. But it is important to know that James is an enemy of the Yoruba race by the way he treated the Isekiri people. I will not go into much historicity here. If the reader doubts that the Isekiri are not pure Yoruba he/she should visit www.globalpeacearithmetic.blogspot.com. It is due to the facts outlined in the blog that the Ooni of Ife – the Alaiyeluwa , the foremost Yoruba king – came to attend the coronation of the Olu of Warri just a few days after he himself was crowned. As the jubilation continues for his release it is proper we say a few evil Ibori did to Isekiri and by extension the Yoruba race. This is risky however since Ibori is the father of the family that rules Delta till date (Governor Okowa 2016). But in the spirit of freedom of speech and being very sure of my facts I will present my facts one after the other.

1.     Ibori shifted the Headquarters of Warri South West Local Government area from Ogidigben to Ogbe-Ijoh. Yet the Ogbe-Ijohs were tenants of Olu of Warri (SC/450/65).

2.     Ibori approved a ‘king’ for Gbaramatu Ijaw clan, an evil never before seen. Yet , Gbaramatus were tenants to Omadinors(w/30/1962). It is with this false kingdom that that Gbaramatu used in trying to steal EPZ from Kpokpo an Isekiri community and acquiring a fake Maritime University in Okerenkoko, a legally nonexistent town. Oporoza(Ofuraja) the so called capital of Gbaramatu is in Ugborodo land (w/124/76). Kpokpo is an Isekiri community, suit no MCC/4/71. The Ijaws have no single land in that area. The Omadinor Isekiri who owned the land were descendants of Lenuwa in Ijebu Waterside.

3.     Ibori went ahead to create false wards in the three Warris. The picture was worse in Warri South West. Isekiri seven wards were made ten; Ijaw three wards were also made ten. This is the type of justice that Ibori preaches – a justice tainted with lies and oppression.

4.     Ibori cut a part of Efurokpe land and called it Otefe. On this piece of land which belonged to Toro Kubeinje he built the Delta State Polytechnic.

5.     Ibori intensified the land tussle in the Ogbe-Ijoh – Aladja axis by creating a false local government for the Ijaw tenants. With the creation of this false local government council, the Ijaws felt like landlord overnight and started fighting for more Isekiri lands in Aladja axis.  So much for the injustice of Ibori against Isekiri. The list is not exhausted; more will be written

What is to be done?

a.     Isekiri should be wary of Ibori and all his tricks

b.     Isekiri should think deeply on any suggestion brought by Ibori and his ruling elite in Delta

c.      Isekiri should always think of realigning with Yoruba in any form of restructuring.

d.     We know our detractors of old, we know our detractors of today, and no matter what new garb they may wear, we know their instinctive notorierity for mischief making.

By

Oritseweyinmi Oghanrandukun Olomu(St.Ifa)

The Militancy issue

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The Militancy issue

Good day all, we are the first who seem to be knowledgeable about the militancy situation in the Niger Delta. Many people see the Ijaw militants - MEND, NIGER DELTA AVENGERS, EGBESU etc – as freedom fighters; or agitators for human rights issues. But this is very far from the truth. The Ijaw militants are terrorists. They have been so since ages. Pacheco Pereira in 1505(their first contact with written sources) describe them as pirates; De Bry in 1601 , describe them as terrorists; Roth in 1901 described them as terrorists; Punch Cyril , Bradbury about the turn of the 19^th  century describe them in the same way . Coming home – Alagoa( an Ijaw/Ogbia professor of History) 1977 talked copiously about the terrorism of the Ijaw, they even take praise names for such nefarious acts; Ikime( a fellow Niger Deltan) 1969 was emphatic about Ijaw terrorism and piracy. The story is a recurring decimal, whether you talk of Captain Leonard (1906) , Landolphe 1786, PC Lloyd 1957, Moore 1936, the story is the same. All through the centuries the Ijaw have been lawless without a king – just constituting barbarism for more enlightened people                Take a look: in 1956 the Okrika Ijaw was out rightly defeated in a court case   in Port Harcourt, where they are declared as customary tenants. In the same 50s the Ijaw were declared customary tenants of the Edos. All their settlements around Gelegele, Ajakurama , Ofunama are under the tenancy of Oba of Benin. The so called Okerenkoko (sic Okerenghigho) is Isekiri land. The land they are now bargaining with to get a Maritime University without the Omadino and the Olu of Warri. The Ijaw are also tenant in Akwa-Ibom. They are tenants in Ondo, So much for the Ijaw.

                In all these places they have fought and illegally possessed lands. In Isekiri, the Ibori regime created a local government (Ogbe-Ijoh) without a federal Government gazette for the Ijaw. The land (on tenancy hold) is now a problem with the neighbouring Aladja people. Both people all under the Olu in those days are now in bellum omnium contra omnes. Both have no single legal documents to back their claims. In Ondo, Ilaje-Yoruba land was excised and a local government created for the Ijaw. Now, the same Ijaw are planning a Maritime University on Isekiri land, where they have just committed genocide. The same Tompolo who claims to be a freedom fighter, together with Goodluck(Badluck) Jonathan should be tried on

1.       The establishment of a Deep Sea Port in Gbaramatu clan. The land is under the tenancy of the Olu of Warri

2.       The groundbreaking of the NMU with a false name(Okerenkoko – not in any ancient map) instead of Okerenghigho-Omadino

3.       The genocide against Isekiri which Tompolo is actively involved in; and which Goodluck somehow knew about by bowing to Tompolo to build a University for the Ijaw on a land they just acquired by massacring Isekiri   .

Others who are likely sponsors of these Ijaw are :

a.       James Ibori. He wrongfully shifted the Local government Headquarters without a resort to the proper gazette; he illegally created CDCs in the 3 Warris ,avoiding places with similar problems such as Sapele.

b.      Emmanuel Uduaghan. He was the notorious Isekiri governor who wrongly gave a staff of office to an illegal kingdom – Gbaramatu.

It should interest the world that these two governors in Delta are cousins and have spoilt the political terrain of the state. They are the ones who must have funded these monsters.  For peace to reign Uduaghan should be looked for and dealt with. Ibori is already suffering for his sins.

Goodluck Jonathan, Ibori and Uduaghan must have chosen the Ijaw for their dirty jobs to cover up for their offences. Why the Ijaws? They are the only ones with a notorious history to allow for such irresponsibility and barbarism as I have shown above. All the ethnics in the Greater Delta have their shortcomings, but none has the notoriety and incivility of the Ijaw.  Great care should be taken to create the Maritime University with the proper and correct names, if not Isekiri might have a signal that even Buhari has joined in the great massacre of Ibori, Alams, Tompolo , Uduaghan and all that ilk.

Oritseweyinmi Oghanrandukun Olomu(St.Ifa)

Revealed : There were more than 5 aboriginal communities in Isekiri : Analytical Scientific Survey : go to www.globalpeacearithmetic.blogspot.com for more scientific analyses.

Revealed : There were more than 5 aboriginal communities in Isekiri : Analytical Scientific Survey : go to www.globalpeacearithmetic.blogspot.com for more scientific analyses.

It is common knowledge that the aboriginal communities in Isekiri are 1 Okotomu-Irigbo 2. Omadino 3. Ugborodo. 4 Ureju, and five Inorin. Okotomu-Irigbo were the Egyptian aborigines who were displaced by the battle of Actium in Egypt ( Honsbira and St.Ifa 2008; Honsbira, St.Ifa &  Kehinde Ederogun Eitchie 2004,  Rewane 1987; Ireyefoju 2012 ; Olumide Lucas 1948 etc… The Okotomu came by way of Igala. Some Okotomu people left during the Hyksos led emigration of about 3500-5000BC. The Ureju people came from Itebu Olero in the present Lagos-Ogun border areas. The time line is about 2500 years ago. Ugborodo people came from the water (Atlantis) at a time unfathomable – several thousand years ago. The Inorin people came from Ode-Remo in present Ijebu-Remo areas around Sagamu(Pessu 2011). Omadino people are from Ode-Omi in Ijebu Water Side – near the present Epe in Lagos State. All these are well known

            How many people know about Gbolokposo’s deepest origin?

GBOLOKPOSO

The Udefi story is quite known. Before Udefi people stayed in Gbolokposo - Uwuyo and others (Moore 1936, Ogbobine, Omoneukanrin 1948). Before all these people there was a legendary spiritual woman – Okposo who even the associate of Ginuwa – Uwuyo and Others – met. That shows the people are pre-Ginuwa which will make them part of the aborigines.

OBODO

The children of Irame had their mothers from Obodo. If they had mothers from there it means they are part of the aborigines, since they were there before Ginuwa , and were not among his party.

Orere

This was the place where one of Irame’s wives came from.  The woman was the mother of Irame’s son.

Ogheye. Even the Ugborodo people worship Ogheye and claimed that when they left the water they met Ogheye at present Ogheye on land. This shows it was an ancient community.

Efurokpe

These were the descendants of Jegbo – a Bini man. Jegbo was married to one Roli(Orode) from Ugborodo. They had children together. The Ugborodo woman was more forceful than the husband and converted the children and thus the descendants to Ugborodo indigenes, Hence their being Isekiri. These were the people Ginuwa met at Oghara. They are now in litigation with the Otefe –Oghara Urhobo who came there later than 1872 as Nana’s slaves(Miller Intelligence Report). They are contending ownership of the Polytechnic.

Orugbo

These people were chased from Ode-Isekiri to Orugbo. These people were said to come from Gulani(Ogulagha Ijaws)(Moore 1936;Omoneukanrin 1948; Ogbobine 1976; Sagay undated). Further research however has shown that the Gulani deity was carried from Ode-Isekiri (Okotomu then) to the Ijaws. The name of the deity was Olukumieyin. The name of the carrier was Ogunla(big war). The name of the wife of the carrier was Ereara(body stress). Ogunla in Ijaw mythology left Ode-Isekiri around 900AD when Olu Igbon was head of the Irigbo people. (Alagoa 1972). These Isekiri descents and the other Ijaws had a dispute in Gulani which made them to trace their way back to Isekiri during the time of Olu Irame.

Ijala(Huela)

Portuguese normally interchange j for h. hence Ijala was changed to Huela. In 1505, that is before Ginuwa reached Ijala, the Portuguese had come to trade with the Isekiri. They bought cotton cloth, panther (leopard) skins, akori(Isekiri blue bead) etc. When Ginuwa reached Ijala he was well received by the Ijala people. Some people said there was a war. See Talbot 1927; Roth 1903; Ryder 1969; Ikime 1969; Alagoa 1972 for the place of this Ijala trade and why they should be considered as aborigines.

Conclusion

Isekiri scholars should stop talking about only five aboriginal communities. I am still doing research; more will be revealed. There are talks of people who came from Akure, Owo, Olukumi etc before Ginuwa. Nobody for now has told me where they settled before Ginuwa. I am still researching. The aborigines were very plenty hence they were able to subsume the first Olus and their Bini tongue. Do you know that apart from the title of the chiefs and ‘Ogiame’ all the Olu’s title were got from the aborigines? Suo was the title of Olajori formerly; Olu was the general title of riverine Yoruba and the title of Okotomu-Irigbo people. Olu of Ugbo, Olu of Eko, contracted to Eleko are inspirations. Ogbowuru was the special title of the Onokuteh or the Onirigbo(Oluirigbo) . So much food for thought my Iwere brothers. Research has shown that the aborigines were cloth weavers, bronze makers, salt makers, bead makers, indulged in pottery  etc. There was a very high civilisation in Isekiri before the Ginuwa era. The Portuguese traded there. It was the booming economy that also, led Ginuwa to finally settle in Isekiri after moving in unproductive Ijaw lands in present Bayelsa. Do you know the Portuguese traded with the aborigines at Ureju (1472) at Ijala (1500, 1505) . They came again in 1516 to trade and it was only then they met the monarchy on ground. In 1500 and 1505(Esmaralda de situ orbis: Duarte Pacheco Pereira 1520) never mentioned Ginuwa. Food for thought my brothers and sisters, there were so many communities before Ginuwa.

By

Augustine Oritseweyinmi Oghanrandukun Olomu (St.ifa)