The Cross River Government, led by Governor Bassey Otu, has demolished a historic monolith structure.

Reports indicate that it has been replaced with a statue of Jesus Christ as a shepherd leading his flocks. Additionally, the flag of Israel has been hung on the staff of the statue.

The monolith, known as the Ikom monoliths, is part of a series of volcanic-stone monoliths from the area of Ikom. The Ejagham people are believed to have engraved the monoliths around 200 CE.

The monolith stands between 0.3 and 1.8 metres (1 and 6 feet) high and is laid out in some 30 circles located around Alok in the Ikom area of Cross River State.

This change has sparked mixed reactions on social media.

Height of Irresponsibility. Brainwashed people in government.

Educated illiterates with inferiority complex.

They took your ancestral pride away . Does the Lord Jesus know you ... People always forming as if they're more religious than the Pope.

What's the history behind the monolithic?

Good job ... monolith is EVIL and we do not celebrate evil.
Let it be asserted that ALL of South-South is for JESUS!!!

Babangidapikin:
They took your ancestral pride away . Does the Lord Jesus know you ... People also forming as if they're more religious than the Pope.

those monoliths are casted ones not original and hence were easily broken. Monoliths are carved upon hard rocks and go to Ikom today you will see the originals

Oakenshield:
those monoliths are casted ones not original and hence were easily broken. Monoliths are carved upon hard rocks and go to Ikom today you will see the originals

Okay thanks for the enlightenment, I suspect so too , but I am sadden that we are quick to replace our ancestral heritage with people who took us as slaves own ...and technically still enslaving us ...

I am so angry right now.
Some people have made themselves slaves to Western and Arab religion while neglecting and unappreciative of their ancestral religion.
That governor is fvck men! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Fvck that pastor governor

Babangidapikin:

Okay thanks for the enlightenment, I suspect so too , but I am sadden that we are quick to replace our ancestral heritage with people who took us as slaves own ...and technically still enslaving us ...

it's just redesigning of the roundabout it's been like that for almost 20years,so change is allowed. So around the world even if it gets stolen and sold at the black web(market) it will be returned back to it's original place

Chai! And who has ever seen Jesus physically that is alive today? What gives them the assurance that image is an image of Jesus? Africa needs help.

🤦‍♂️ Nigeria strikes again, majoring in minor things

Stupidity, destroying your own heritage for some unknown Roman pervert. Did any of them actually saw Jesus to know what he looks like?🤦🚶🚶

Shame. If to say white am carry am go. We will have been crying for its reparations

How can that be a statue of Jesus? Does anyone know what he looked like?

when are we ever going to appreciate our own?!

Just imagine the nonsense,what a stupid race we are.

Ogun punish that governor punish the useless jesus join, we're trying to erase jesu and momodu from Africa,some mumu is still forcing it on us.

Why are these governors sometimes so daft...
That's how Gbenga Daniels defaced a whole Olumo rock

How stupid and painful.. history lost

Ironically, the first transatlantic Slave ship to transport kidnapped slaves to the New world was named ' The Good Ship Jesus ' .

The tragedy of that historic voyage still haunts the Negro race till this day. For, ever since that voyage,the Evil ship Jesus has continued kidnap and enslave the minds of the Negro race.

You are simplying replacing the forefathers culture with the white man's culture you have been brainwashed with. These jesus sculptures you remove those ancient monoliths for, are simply fictions of someone's imagination somewhere..


Indeed.. religion is the opium of the masses..

AnambraPikinSel:
Ogun punish that governor punish the useless jesus join, we're trying to erase jesu and momodu from Africa,some mumu is still forcing it on us.

Even saul did more than you are doing now but at the end he became a follower of Christ.

Gistmedia10:
The Cross River Government, led by Governor Bassey Otu, has demolished a historic monolith structure.

Reports indicate that it has been replaced with a statue of Jesus Christ as a shepherd leading his flocks. Additionally, the flag of Israel has been hung on the staff of the statue.

The monolith, known as the Ikom monoliths, is part of a series of volcanic-stone monoliths from the area of Ikom. The Ejagham people are believed to have engraved the monoliths around 200 CE.

The monolith stands between 0.3 and 1.8 metres (1 and 6 feet) high and is laid out in some 30 circles located around Alok in the Ikom area of Cross River State.

This change has sparked mixed reactions on social media.

Advanced stupidity

NaijaCowFarm:
Good job ... monolith is EVIL and we do not celebrate evil.
Let it be asserted that ALL of South-South is for JESUS!!!

When muslims sack entire villages in the north and rename them and install emirs, don't complain about one-Nigeria.
Religion comes AFTER culture.

The Ikom monoliths are a series of volcanic-stone monoliths from the area of Ikom, Cross River State, Nigeria. The Ejagham may have engraved the monoliths around 200 CE.[1]
Description
Numbering about 300 in total, the monoliths are between 0.3 and 1.8 metres (1 and 6 feet) high and are laid out in some 30 circles located around Alok in the Ikom area of Cross River State. The monoliths are phallic in form and some feature stylized faces as well as decorative patterns and inscriptions. Although the carvings have not been deciphered, researchers and linguists believe that the inscriptions may represent a form of writing and visual communication.[2][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikom_monoliths

What a shameful act by people who do not make good use of their brains. Uninformed fellows. The Israeli flag says it all. They have put up the European-looking white Jesus. Who told you that was how he looked? An accurate depiction of Jesus could have been put up, with the monoliths still there.

Nawa oh. These elites continue to marvel me. So out of all the important things he could do. He decided that destroying a historic monument for an imported idea is better.

Gistmedia10:
The Cross River Government, led by Governor Bassey Otu, has demolished a historic monolith structure.

Reports indicate that it has been replaced with a statue of Jesus Christ as a shepherd leading his flocks. Additionally, the flag of Israel has been hung on the staff of the statue.

The monolith, known as the Ikom monoliths, is part of a series of volcanic-stone monoliths from the area of Ikom. The Ejagham people are believed to have engraved the monoliths around 200 CE.

The monolith stands between 0.3 and 1.8 metres (1 and 6 feet) high and is laid out in some 30 circles located around Alok in the Ikom area of Cross River State.

This change has sparked mixed reactions on social media.

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Why can't they build the status of Jesus somewhere else?
People be acting so religious yet they are the most diabolical and wicked individuals in the society.
That structure can act as monument for tourism in the state.
The money they used in erecting that structure can feed some people.

AnambraPikinSel:
Ogun punish that governor punish the useless jesus join, we're trying to erase jesu and momodu from Africa,some mumu is still forcing it on us.

I was shocked reading this. It shows how daft you are about the knowledge of Jesus. How dear you say you want to erase Jesus? Are you sure you are ok?

Misplaced priority! This is the reason why history is important. These monuments are not evil, they are part and parcels of our history. They shows how we have gradually progress cognitively, socioculturally, and religiously. They are state monuments. He could have cited the statue of Jesus another strategic place.

Our mentality as Africans is too chaotic and archaic



Terrible!

Even the bible said Proverbs 23:10a Do not remove the ancient landmark

Did I read this right? An ancient site destroyed and replaced with a new statute of Jesus? A site that is capable of generating wealth for generations? It wasn't even moved but destroyed entirely yet the statute of Alexander the great a pagan still stands today?

There's something fundamentally wrong with the way a black man thinks, no matter how religious you are, if in deed that site has existed for hundreds of years, common sense should let you know that this is a bad move.

But what do you expect in a country where tourism especially in the countryside is dead and crude oil is still being held on like a child holding onto his mother's bréast? Black folks have successfully destroyed their identity because they do not understand how to give to Caesar what belongs to him, that's why these afrocentrists are bent on holding onto ancient civilizations to make themselves feel better.

Tell me exactly how these kind of leaders can birth original ideas that is needed to create the perfect blueprint to build long lasting civilization. Like one of my favorite North American said, "And every man needs to know where he came from, 'cause he's heading for the gravestone."

Wow that's crazy. They could've placed it in a museum 😒.