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PHOTO NEWS: Ex-militant Leader, Ateke Tom Installed As King In Rivers State by FirstPostNig: 2:13am On Nov 23, 2017 |
Today, 22 November, 2017, the former militant leader Ateke Micheal Tom was Installed as Amayanabo(KING) of Okochiri in Okirika, Rivers State. He was ordained by both the Okrika and Ogu/Bolo Divisional Council Of Chiefs. CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS: https://firstpost.ng/ex-militant-leader-ateke-tom-installed-as-king-in-rivers-state/ 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: PHOTO NEWS: Ex-militant Leader, Ateke Tom Installed As King In Rivers State by chuks34(m): 2:21am On Nov 23, 2017 |
What do I know |
Re: PHOTO NEWS: Ex-militant Leader, Ateke Tom Installed As King In Rivers State by odiereke(m): 3:28am On Nov 23, 2017 |
Okay oooo. |
Re: PHOTO NEWS: Ex-militant Leader, Ateke Tom Installed As King In Rivers State by Konquest: 5:42am On Nov 25, 2017 |
FirstPostNig:^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ Never knew he's from a Royal Family in Okrika. According to Ijaw/Kalabari tradition, a slave/freed slave/commoner or freeborn cannot be a king or Amayanabo! When he was into extreme militancy and his gang killed people he made enemies for himself. I hope he has made up to those he offended when he was into violence. I wish him a happy reign anyways because I have good professional friends from Okrika Town and I once lived and worked in a multinational firm in PH. |
Re: PHOTO NEWS: Ex-militant Leader, Ateke Tom Installed As King In Rivers State by Nobody: 7:39pm On Nov 25, 2017 |
I don't think there is any such thing as ijaw royal family. They are just dashing titles up and down. Jaja was a slave and he became an ijaw king. Their kingship makes no sense. They have no royal family, they pick and chose who is going to be their king. Konquest: 1 Like |
Re: PHOTO NEWS: Ex-militant Leader, Ateke Tom Installed As King In Rivers State by Konquest: 11:06pm On Nov 25, 2017 |
historyworld030:^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ There is! The history books even reveal that Bonny has royalty and the canoe war houses for example. There are archival documents written by white American slave traders who came to Bonny to buy captured Africans that also clearly indicate this fact! You're brilliant for bringing up the Jaja issue, I wanted to include that aspect in my original post. I will address it now! In the major archival materials and aa popular book by Sir Allan Burns entitled "History of Nigeria" Jaja was referred to as a "Middleman Chief" because that is what he was, a go between the white merchants from Liverpool and the interior/hinterland people in the oil palm trade. Did you know that Opobo [A small part of Western Ikot Abasi - a part of Ibibioland?] When Jaja escaped from Bonny Island, he sought refuge in Ikot Abasi axis in 1870, and he was chased by Bonny war canoes and would have been wiped out completely. It was the white traders who came to his aid and prevented what would have been a final massacre of Jaja's group that he escaped with from Bonny. The archival materials reveal that Jaja was very brutal killing/beheading the captured people of the interior such as the Annangs who also were prevented by Jaja's arrogance from taking part in the lucrative oil palm trade with the white traders. Jaja was a freed slave from Amaigbo [Umu Duru Oha clan] in Imo State and his father was a SLAVE merchant as well. There is an account that I saw on NTA Network 2 years ago on one of my trips to Nigeria where it was indicated that Jaja's father was the one that SOLD Jaja his son - although Walter Ofonagoro who is from Amaigbo denied it. The classic documentary was produced by a Mr.Enemuo of North and South Media. I hope to get a personal copy of that serialized documentary soon. Jaja also visited his home village as an adult and the house he built in Amaigbo was shown in the documentary. So my question then was... Jaja could NOT have been made a king or Amayanabo because he is a FORMER slave. He is NOT even an Ijaw freeborn but a NATURALIZED Ijaw via a tribal initiation/conversion ceremony of non-Ijaws. To me, Jaja still remains an Ibo! So how can modern day school literature and revisionist propaganda refer to him as a king when the British colonial materials referred to him as as a "CHIEF"... a "Middleman Chief?" Somebody just wanted to dash him an artificial Amayanabo title on Ibibioland called Ikot Abasi [part of which became Opobo]. Part of western Ikot Abasi [Opobo] is now in Rivers state and the rest of Ikot Abasi is in Akwa Ibom state! Opobo is made up of people with Ibibio, Ibani [Ijaw], and some Ibo bloodlines! Jaja was the head of a canoe house in Bonny and later a mercenary leader who supplied 50 mercenaries to the British during the Anglo-Asanti War, so I do NOT consider that kind of person as an African nationalist that some fake history reviews, online blogs and school social studies/Nigerian history books have tried to make him out to be! He was presented with a sword allegedly from the Queen Victoria for helping the British to DEFEAT the great Asanti warriors of Ghana! Those history books and the asinine social studies entries on Jaja should be removed because he was NOT an African hero just as President Buhari's speech writer tried to portray Jaja in 2015 during PMB's swearing-in speech! The British finally used Jaja, got tired of his cunny ways and extreme brutality to fellow Africans such as the Annangs, Ibibios and some Ibos of the interior who wanted to trade through the Imo River, but were PREVENTED by him with brute force. He was finally removed and deported in 1885 [15 years after he fled Bonny to Ikot Abasi in Ibibioland - now named Opobo] to Accra and sentenced to 5 years jail term in the West Indies. Poetic justice... All the best! |
Re: PHOTO NEWS: Ex-militant Leader, Ateke Tom Installed As King In Rivers State by Nobody: 11:55pm On Nov 25, 2017 |
Nice, thank you for the lesson. Konquest: 1 Like 1 Share |
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