I hope nobody thinks I mean job finders when I say head hunters. The news is that close to six innocent citizens may have lost their heads in Lagos Island alone. The age old primitive tradition and common burial rite for regents in the SW of BiafraNigeria is still very much around. So much for Sharia in Ibadan. headhunters take over Lagos
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This barbaric act is as prevalent in the SE as much as in the SW of Nigeria. God knows how many heads were lost to the head hunters for the Obi to ascend the throne in Onitsha.
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First the Jahidits were killing people in the north, now yorubas are killing people in the west, well, birds of the same feather flock together they say.
Those yoruba cowards better not kill any onye Igbo or they will pay a high price.
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Let the Yoruba cowards have no illusion because any fiam they will pay a high price for it. We've had enough.
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We did not read about the Onitsha head hunters anywhere. Even the Lagos/Ibadan press that would have had a free day did not report anything.
My problem here is people who answer Alhaji by day and sacrifice to Ogun by night. I can understand this kind of thing happening in Ijebu Ode, but to have people losing their heads in Lagos Island is just alarming.
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Blessing you are right, it is barbaric no matter where it happen. It is unfortunate that people like Tijani and Addy are seeing this differently. The Otokoto oncidence was barbaric and that is why people dealt with them that way, the Otokoto incidence was motivated by money and greed, while this barbaric act in Yoruba land is motivated by outdated tradition.
This same Yoruba fellows were here last week deny the good doctor in London who was caught fondling nurses. many of us here said it wasn't a cultural thing, for him to be to be doing that. Now can you all deny this head hunting again?
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A culture that regards human lives as cheap is not worth much respect. It is reasonable to have punishment for violation of norms of a people. But why should that punishment be death if the violation itself is not intentional killing of another human being? It is more absurd that innocent lives have to be sacrificed to mourn a king. Such barbarity should not have a place in today’s world. No one is arguing that violent retribution for minor transgressions is limited to any one ethnic group. What is becoming very clear is that the attitude towards change differs markedly. I have chosen two recent cases that grabbed the headlines. The Odo Neke crisis and Sagamu (oro) crisis.
I was numbed by official Yoruba reactions to the sagamu ritual murder of an hausa woman. Governor Osoba of Ogun state blamed the victim of the Sagamu ritual killing.
Otokoto was clearly recognised by authorities in Imo state as criminal act. That is reflected in the death sentences passed by the courts of law. Attempts to delay justice are only a reflection of the corrupt criminal justice system we endure under the failed state of Nigeria. Now, the British police are in Nigeria to investigate another ritual murder with culture written all over it. I don’t know what enthusiasm the Yoruba press and officials are showing, but this is a good chance for them to condemn unequivocally barbarism in the name of culture..
The detectives who acknowledged the assistance of the Nigerian Police and government, pointed out that available information showed that the boy whose torso was found without his head, hailed from West Africa, with specific forensic reports showing that he hailed from the Ibadan-Benin City axis, with more emphasis on his being a Yoruba.
Also, I don’t hear highly placed Yoruba people stressing the need to respect the rights of others as cultural head hunters disrupt businesses and look for would be ritual murder victims to placate the sprits of a dead king.
In contrast, resistance to culture of barbarity is growing in Igboland. The reactions of the masses and elected officials of Isi-Uzo local government in Igboland are very heartening and the way to go.
quote:"There are no provisions in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for any group of people to hold to hostage, the rest of mankind as a result of its cultural peculiarity,"
That was the official stand of Isi-Uzo local government. Now what are the elected officials of Lagos State doing to protect the rights of people in the wake of the Oba's death?
In fact, according to Mrs. Anastasia Nnamchi, "what happened in Neke was hard to believe by even other surrounding towns since Odo Neke is held in awe by everyone. But women in this town are the greatest beneficiaries. God has given us our own Beijing Conference on a platter of gold."
We should promote cultural practices which discourage violence against self and others.
This is only one example of how Igbo culture abhors violence. I am sure there are many such practices in other cultures. Let me know of oral or published examples.
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quote:Residents said the rioting was triggered by the killing of a young man in Sagamu on Sunday by gunmen suspected to be members of a militia loyal to the king. The man's body was taken away by the attackers, raising suspicions of a ritualistic killing.
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I apologize if i did not make myself as absolutely clear as possible. The bottom line here is that Africa is barbaric. To say that one part is more barbaric than the other is simply escapist and unacceptable. I still say that for every ten heads(unwarranted, stupidly, ignorantly,and indefensibly)taken down in the name of tradition in Lagos Island, there are five others unaccounted for in Onitsha under the bridge. This should make us all sad. It is absolutely no time for light-hearted insinuations.
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There are too many OBAS,KINGS, ALAHAJIS AND ALAHAJAS in Yoruba country and very few commoners. Everybody wants to be one or the other and thats the problem. In Igbo land, we have chiefs but it is earned by what one has accomplished in the community..scholarship, hospitals, school, electricity in the village, how much capital you have to contribute to the needy.--------->Community effort. 99.9% of High schools, electrification and hospitals in Igbo country/village is built by a chief or community effort.
OBI, Owelle, Eze and all that jazz is merely a pension plan or retirement benefits with no portfolio. A chief is what rocks. Overall, Igbo's life does not revolve around the king, they do not answer to kings, we respect them and we do not sacrifice for anyone. Any human sacrifice is self imposed, retaliatory and does not reflect the spirit of Igbo kwenu. On the contrary, human sacrifice in Yoruba race for the Oba is well encrypted in the OGUN AND OSHUN . FYI
Hail Biafra
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Who can forget the case of Adam the headless torso found in the River Thames. Most people think he was a victim of Yoruba ritual murders.
'A few days after its discovery police found seven half-burned candles wrapped in a white sheet washed up on the southern shore of the Thames. A name -- Adekoye Jo Fola Adeoye -- was written on the sheet and the name Fola Adeoye was inscribed on the candles.'
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