The last time we did a publication of the pipe dreams of Ijaw people we were able to make it explicitly clear about their level of ignorance we were able to establish statistically the level of their illiteracy only bested by Hausa/Fulanis in Nigeria, it is a general ideology that the best way to prove that a writer is spreading fallacious history is to simply write hence this article.
The purpose of past events has a way of influencing and creating the nobility of our futuristic endeavors that’s the case of the ijaw hooligans whose entirety of their being is solely based on violence which have culminated in them in giving bad names to their other neighbors, I wish to ask, aside picking up of arms what else are they known for? Your guess is as good as mine.
First they called our community “Gelegelegbene” an old tactics they have been using for Itsekiris, Urhobo, Isoko etc. it is really laughable and pitiable that what concerns well-known homeless fishermen with naming of communities, well unlike most other kingdoms, Benin is the most advanced and we have documentation of all our communities and our naming pattern is quite distinct as it all have historical explanations. The community is called “GeleGele” meaning Truly Truly hence we have statements like “A Gha Gele rue” meaning “we shall truly do it”. With that I have put to rest the argument of what GeleGele means in Benin language.
The group referred to us as Bini which further established the statistics of the level of ignorance in Ijaw race, they went further to say that the supreme court judgement proving that the Benins are the owner of GeleGele was contorted and distorted which they call black market court judgements, again it is laughable reason being our judicial system most especially our supreme court has been delivering credible judgements and they should not also forget that we have paper documents of Ijaws paying tenancy fee to the Benin GeleGele aborigines (Landlords) not too long ago.
They went further to open some excerpt from J U Egharevba book on Short History of Benin citing that the Benins migrated from Egypt came through Sudan, then stopped at Ile-Ife on getting to Benin they met some people (ferrymen) which they foolishly assumed to be Ijaw people, if you believe J U Egharevba so much because it suits your greedy agenda, the question is did Egharevba mention in that same book that the people the Benins met were Ijaw people? Well the book Short History of Benin has a lot of historical errors which the author latter admitted before his glorious exit. The Benins never, I repeat never left our land so therefore we are the aborigines of this land.
The writer again foolishly wrote that Ijaw have their Kingdoms while Benin have their Kingdom, the point is their kingdom is in plural, that’s another laughable point from a set of sick people, only in Warri the Ijaws have four kingdoms and we are sure in total Ijaw should have nothing less than 15 kingdoms, what kind of a highly classless race these people truly are? I’m sure they are already planning to establish more Kingdoms and therefore build on their expansion agenda, well they have chosen the wrong people to deal with.
Who are the Izon to the Benins they were variation of people occupying riverine areas, so if an Igbo, Urhobo, Isokos, Ikwerres, occupies any riverine area within our empire, we refer to them all as Izon, the term Ijaw is just a mere political word to give relevance to riverine people who are not ancestrally linked in any way, to further buttress our point our empire extended over the present day Bayelsa state that’s why we have a lot of Bayelsa Ijaw who said they are ancestrally from Benin but never the reverse, we put this fact to the Ijaw (political name) that they are not aborigine of any land in Nigeria they were just riverine people probably from the natives of the land.
The mistake usually propagated by Ijaws is solely because of the high level of illiteracy, if not illiteracy they would have read that, Oba Orhogbua is documented in European historical records as the first Sailor King in West-Africa in which most of his wars were through the Bight of Benin to River Volta in Ghana. He was trained as a seminarian, prelude to the priesthood in Lisbon, it is common knowledge that at that time, the Portuguese were the powerful navigators in the world, so when Orhogbua became the Oba of Benin, he fell in love with the water body, were he exerted most of his victory.
Oba Ehengbuda was a sailor king but not as skilled as his father, Oba Orhogbua, Oba Ohen came directly from the water, the god of the Sea, Olokun (Ole-Owner and Okun-Water body) is a chief deity in Benin Kingdom indigenous to the Benins, we refer to the water bodies as Okun, so it will be very stupid for any hooligans to come out on public forum to say Benins are Aquaphobia, even the water they say they are skilled at, the Olokun god will be invoked anytime soon to give them incurable ailment.
They also said we are Yorubas because of one Yoruba historical saboteur wrote that we were pure yorubas at one time, well this article is not meant for Yorubas but the only thing I would like to advice yorubas is first they should tell us the origin of yorubas because they are people with four different historical accounts of their origin hence so many supremacy battle between them so I don’t want to join issues with people who don’t even have an identity.
They further wrote that according to Prof. Alan Ryder “whichever of the slave rivers the Portuguese frequented the people they first met and traded with would have belonged to Ijaw” from that excerpt we can deduce that the slaves in those rivers that the Portuguese met and traded with were who? And those slaves belongs to who? Your guess is as good as mine. We were never riverine dwellers but stationed our slaves to do trades for us and this was the role the now called Ijaws played for Great Benin Empire.
We are not oblivious of the tactics of War, but being educated and civilized has made us sort of left our ancient ways, but since these people do not want to desist from their lawlessness, we intend being more lawless, we asked rhetorically the other day which of the war have Ijaw fought in the time past, there was an unbelievable silence, or the Ijaw think that illegal bunkering, piracy, kidnapping is an act of war. If their ancestors could not muster any courage to disagree with my ancestors not to think of going to war with us, what makes the Ijaw think their present generation can defeat the Benins in war, once a slave always a slave.
They are already calling on the president to save their soul, when the drums of war they sounded has not even started, we were patient with you all this while because our elders told us to allow peace reign, now you challenged the sovereignty of the Oba of Benin in his land, your case has been weighed and found guilty and the penalty will be indescribably gruesome.
We will allow the gods and goddesses of our land do their own bit, but we will do our own, you cannot light a fire without expecting to be burnt, this time our actions will speak more than media or our voices. We challenge them to show the world physical evidence as to their claims of the purported lands they presently occupy, the Supreme Court Judgement regarded them as customary tenants and as such we will treat them as what is truly befitting of a tenant who tries to lord it over the landlord. After the hard lesson you people will learn from this whole drama, humility and respect to your other neighbors will be your second name.
Signed:
Ekpenede Idubor
Nathaniel Akenuwa
Uwagboe Ogieva
Lucky Osahon
Don Senatorlucky
Courtesy: Edos in Diaspora
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