Troops invade Gbaramatu, ransack four communities
Nigerian Army
• CLO Petitions FG, NASS Over Sack Of Bayelsa Community
Heavily armed troops yesterday, invaded Gbaramatu kingdom, ransacking some of the communities, including Mekeama, Opkelama, Okerenkoko and Oporoza.
The operation, which lasted several hours, was however hampered, as the military boat got stuck in the swampy terrain, on their way to Mekeama, due to their little knowledge of the area.
After spending hours trying to get the boat out, they quickly beat a retreat.
Spokesman for the Gbaramatu Traditional Council, Chief Godspower Gbenekema, said the troops departed after they were confronted by a handful of protesting angry women.
He explained that while the soldiers tried to get the stuck gunboat out of the swamp, some of the women protested and asked the soldiers what they were looking for, as all the men had ran away from the communities.
He said the leader of the troops replied the women that the military is a federal property, which can enter anywhere it chooses in the country. “The soldiers then told the women to go to villages and tell the men that they don’t want to see any speedboat by the water front henceforth.”
Gbenekema said the directive is tantamount to telling the Gbaramatu people not to go about their livelihood and starve to death in their isolated villages, with nothing to eat.
A very bitter Gbenekema said: “A situation were military men terrorize defenceless citizens in the name of protection of oil pipeline is not acceptable. If the military do not want to partner citizens in their efforts to protect oil facilities, we do not mind, but they should not hold the indigenes responsible.
“The Nigerian security forces do not regard some people as humans; their kings are treated with disdain. How can you be coming to a king’s domain without seeking the traditional ruler’s co-operation? For the traditional ruler of Gbaramatu, this has been his lot.
“When Ese Oruru was abducted, for the police to arrest the man who was accused of abducting her, because she was in the Emir of Kano’s domain, they waited for the Emir to return from his trip to South Africa, before the security agents could act, but for the Niger Delta rulers the opposite is the case.
“The military would not even mind even if they desecrate their ancestral shrine. What a nation were a different canon is used to rule the Hausa/Fulani north, and a different one for the South-South, especially the Niger Delta people.”
Meanwhile, Owing to the alleged sack of a Bayelsa community by military troops of the Operation Delta Safe on Monday, the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has sent a protest letter to the Federal Government and the National Assembly
The CLO is asking the Federal Government and the National Assembly to probe the alleged complicity of military troops in the invasion and destruction of the Sand-Sand community in Nembe Local Government Area of the state.
Indigenes of the community had on Friday cried out over alleged invasion by soldiers in search of suspected members of the militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers.
According to the Community, though the soldiers did not make any arrest nor discover any member of the Niger Delta Avengers, they left in their trail scores of burnt houses, churches and schools.
The authorities of the Joint Task, however denied the allegation through the Coordinator of its Joint Media Centre, Lt. Col. Laolu Daudu.
Dauda stated that though the military troops in conjunction with Special Forces conducted patrols to Sand-Sand fishing camp, it did not burn down houses as alleged by the community.
He said the troops were in search of suspected militants who had re- grouped to resuscitate a camp earlier destroyed.
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They harboured lizards now complaining about snakes invasion.
The interesting scenario is that Fulani herdsmen are killing and rapping without arrest in your community while you are only interested in the harassment of people whose only offense is providing their resources to sustain your parasitic state. The world must be mocking at Buhari and your type
The Niger Delta people know what to do to stop the Arny from constant inversion of their community.
Oil pipelines or citizens, which is more important?
The Gbaramatu Issue: Let Us Blow the Whistle (All Yoruba must unite)
The Gbaramatu Issue: Let Us Blow the Whistle (All Yoruba
must unite)
A little while ago, the president of Nigeria announced that
anyone who raises issues of corruption will receive a 5% reward of the profit. The
Gbaramatu Ijos have committed crimes beyond what the human conscience can bear.
For now, nobody knows the perpetrators of these acts, but the most likely
suspects are the following – Chief James Onanefe Ibori; Ex Governor Emmanuel
Uduaghan, the outlaw Tompolo; the spent force EK Clark; the push me I push you
assumed Ijaw president Goodluck Jonathan; the now sick Diezani; the late
Alamayiesigha; Feghabor and the late Colonel Dungs.
It is a
tedious long story. The story goes back to May 28th 1998, a day to
the departure of Feghabor as the MILADof Delta State. The notorious man did
some mysterious things. He swore in the Orosuen of Okere Urhobo kingdom; the
Pere of Gbaramatu; the Pere of Ogbe-Ijoh, the King of Agbassa and a host of
other non kings. Feghabor is a Nembe man. There are two Nembes – Ogbolomabiri(pure-Ijaws)
and Bassambri(Isekiri descendants). Feghabor has an Isekiri middle name and
claims to be related to Isekiri, yet he dealt the cruel blow. People who had no
kingdom historically were granted kingdoms (Talbot 1926; Roth 1903; Samuel
Ogbemudia in Vangurd 3rd 2016; Ikime 1969; Egharevba 1948 etc) Dungs appeared as a military
administrator in the dark days of military dictatorship – a Berom man from
Riyom about thirty kilometers from Jos
City. He is said to have some blood links to Ijaw and even Urhobo (Umukoro
Gideon 1998/1999). He unilaterally created an un-gazetted local government –
Warri Central and Warri South with Headquarters at Ogbe-Ijoh. Isekiri authorities
– Sagay, Atake, Rita Lori , etc wrote relentlessly about this gross injustice of
the now late Col. Dungs. Abacha saw the facts and told him to go and announce
Ogidigben, He reluctantly did that. The Warri crises began in March 1997, a
little after that. People like the outlaw, Tompolo climbed to power as killers,
murderers and rebels. The war continued. All Isekiri villages except Orugbo and
Gbolokposo were raised down. The power of Isekiri juju which always surpassed
that of the Ijaws helped these two communities. It was the village of Orugbo –
the home of the Almighty Ibrikimo – that later tamed the Ijaw madness.
Comes in
Ibori. He was a governor who turned the present Delta State into his property. He
ruled totally outside the ambit of law and order. In order to settle the crises, he went
totally against the law. Ibori is an Isekiri man with an Urhobo father. Yes,
you heard me well; he is an Isekiri man with an Urhobo father. He attended
Uniben as Esijolomi Ibori. But in 1991, when he wanted to contest for House of
Reps, he changed his name to Onanefe. This notorious man changed the
Headquarters of WSW Legal Govt. from Ogidigben to Ogbe-Ijoh. Till today Ogbe-Ijoh
is not gazetted as Warri South West LGA Headquarters. This injustice is making
the Ijaws to see themselves as landlord in Warri. Whereas they are Isekiri tenants
(Suit No. W/148/56). The same grant of Ibori on Ogbe-Ijoh is what is causing
the perpetual war of Ijaw and the Aladja(also tenants of the Isekiri).
Uduaghan
comes in. He was a stooge planted by Ibori. He was and is still is a complete
yes man. He is a man without any sense of direction. He is an Isekiri man with
an Isekiri father, unlike Ibori who is an Isekiri man with an Urhobo father. Towards
the end of his administration, for fear of his boss – Ibori – he went to give a
staff of office to the illegal king of Gbaramatu. Thus they have a parole king
without a history and worse still without a kingdom (Suit Nos. MCC/4/71 and MCC/37/71: )
Many Isekiri close to
Uduaghan say that Uduaghan was not really happy with what he was doing that he
was afraid of being impeached by the Ibori boys who were masterminding him to
carry out his atrocities against the Isekiri – his own people. That is not an
excuse however. He should have honourable resigned from the whole deal.
Tompolo,
EK Clark, Diezani, Alamayiesigh and Jonathan Goodluck should be treated as one
in complicity. These people are responsible for the wrong land deals, the
trouble in EPZ, the Maritime University fraud and the falsification of court
papers to get all these evils done. Who are these people?
1.
Tompolo – he is an outlaw. A thickly accented,
illiterate and ignorant Ijaw boy, deceived by demonic elders like EK Clark,
empowered by devils like Ibori and Alamayiesigha to commit atrocities. Tompolo cannot
see beyond his nose and was a handy tool in the hands of these wicked outlaws
to commit untold atrocities against the Isekiri, who were gracious enough to grant
his great grandfather a place to stay in Ofuraja(Oporoza in Ijaw corrupt form)
.
2.
Diezani. It cannot be said if she is Ijaw or
not. But she is definitely from Bayelsa. She was the one who told Isekiri to apologize
to Goodluck for speaking harsh words when Isekiri were talking harsh to Jonathan
about the theft of their land.
3.
Alamayiesigha, he was said to have severally
supported a lot of Ijaw boys with logistics when coming from Bayelsa to burn
Isekiri villages in Delta. He is instrumental in instructing the Ijaws to burn
the Isekiri villages at Amatu in Bayelsa and Oruselemo in the fringes of
Bayelsa. A speech he made on the completion of the “fall of Jericho” (August 17th
2003) shows most of the Ijaw boys who attempted to burn Olu’s palce were
sponsored by him. A document of this revealing speech is reserved for now.
4.
EK Clark. He claims to be the father of the Ijaw
race. But he is a patch, patch Ijaw man (Tam David West 2013). His blood is
highly polluted with Isekiri and Urhobo. He is a brother to JP Clark. His evil
ranting against Isekiri goes back to decades.
5.
Goodluck Jonathan. Mystery of all mysteries! This
man is not an Ijaw man. He is an Ogbia man. His ethnic group is far smaller
than Isekiri. His ethnic is not even related to the Ijaw(Alagoa 1977; Honsbira
and St.Ifa 2011). Ogbia is a Bantuid tongue, with heavy dosage of Isekiri
culture. But in order to survive the Ijaw pushy agendum, this innocent
non-Ijaw, who is more related to Isekiri joined the Gbaramatu fraud!
WHAT IS THE GBARAMATU FRAUD?
It is the greatest injustice a group of
people can commit against the law. Tompolo supported by these people – Clark,
Goodluck, Diezani, etc, went and changed the survey plan of the Isekiri
judgment in Gbaramatu enclave. They fixed in a totally different survey plan. Since
the Supreme Court can revise its judgment when one of the planks of that judgment
is in error, Tompolo now sued Isekiri for a review of that case. They went to
court. Isekiri were confident until they noticed that their survey plan is not
the same with that of the court, or with that of Tompolo. The Isekiri of
Omadino sweated and panicked in court. They could not tell what has happened. In
their confusion, they remembered that Shell was sued side by side with them. They
begged court to summon shell, thanks to the wisdom of Pa Edukugho. The Omadino Isekiri
got their judgment . the Shell document is the same with that of Isekiri, but different
from that of Tompolo and the Courts.
MATTERS ARISING
a.
Who assisted Tompolo to do this great fraud
b.
Did Goodluck and his ‘Ijaw’ friends not know
about this fraud? If he doesn’t know, why was he pushing the Maritime
University?
c.
Which judges took money to perpetrate this evil?
d.
Why they are not summoned?
e.
Why are they still even talking of Maritime
University
f.
Has any crime been worse than this?
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
1.
Isekiri should move to know those behind the
fraud.
2.
Isekiri should use all their arsenals – their
affinity to Yoruba; their affinity to Igala; their affinity to the Portuguese;
the whole arsenal of their history; their affinity to Olukumi’ to Lucumi, to
Candomble Nago. The demons behind this evil must be brought to light.
3.
Isekiri should start investigating other cases
against Ijaw-Urhobo and see if the Tompolo fraud is perpetrated there, too.
4.
Isekiri should look at some cases – the Sapele Land
Case; The Daniel Okumagba Case – where their plank of History is totally wrong.
If Tompolo can use falsehood to almost upturn a Supreme Court Judgment , Isekiri
can use the truth to upturn the judgment of Sapele, and Idimi Sobo.
5.
Lastly, let us hold unto the Yoruba strongly. Let
us follow the vision of the Ooni – the Alaiyeluwa – who goes about trying to
unify the Yoruba Race. If Tompolo can commit this fraud and is scot free ,
Delta is not our home; Niger Delta is an enemy territory. We belong to Oduduwa.
The Olu, Itse Sagay, Remi Tinubu, Amuka, Daisy Danjuma, Omolubi and all other
well meaning Isekiri and friends of Isekiri should look at this great and grievous
crime against the law committed by the Ijaw and the assumed Ijaw like Goodluck
Jonathan.
6.
To your tent , oh Isekiri, to your Oduduwa tent
Augustine Oritseweyinmi Oghanrandukun Olomu (St.Ifa)
St
.Ifa is a member of Warri Scientific History and Literary Society, his
suggestions go a long way in unveiling the Gbaramatu fraud and helping in
resolving several issues in the Sapele axis.
We will review and take appropriate action.