Ekpeye people of Ahoada East LGA of Rivers State & their connection with their other IGBO kits & kin

[@obiflex]

There is an ongoing attempt by many Igbo groups to re-write their Igbo heritage out of their history and origin. In the process of doing so, they are loosing vital aspects of their culture and history and also turning themselves into minorities in their own states. Thank you Nna Men TV for this laudable project. We need to document these things

[@ahkramokaa4508]

Ekpeya didn't come from Bini kingdom. Ekpeya is an autochthonous group, and they've the only group that's very different from other Igbo tribes. Their elders who were interviewed by the colonial masters never told anybody that they migrated from anywhere.

[@cryptowave1798]

@@ahkramokaa4508 ekpeye is igbo

[@ahkramokaa4508]

@@cryptowave1798 Yes, but they are the most different Igbo tribe. Are you from there?

[@cryptowave1798]

@@ahkramokaa4508 yes I have travelled, studied Igbo and observed other Igbo sub groups. It's ignorance that is making us deny Igbo. We practice the four market days like others. Our ancestors were wise, they knew a day like this will come.

[@ahkramokaa4508]

@@cryptowave1798 Yeah. Do you people also worship the Mother Earth Goddess ( Ele) Do you have her ancient altars or shrines down there?

[@okaforgodswill2906]

Thank God this video was later made public. Be waiting for it for a long time now. Let's visit ndoki in akwa ibom. @ next

[@mujoco5246]

God bless the man who knows where they came from

[@spiritfilledsongsspiritfil6923]

Nnaa Mehn, well done the great job continue.....

[@obumnemeigbokwe5996]

My brother well done, more stars for your channel

[@udob4939]

I understand the fear of being identified as Igbo in rivers when it was in control of the extremely Igbophobic and hateful ijaw but in 2022 it’s time to let it go. The fear at this point is irrational. I wasn’t born then but my sister was and my parents were in their 20s. The hell igbo communities faced in Rivers under Ijaw is something worth studying. The ijaw with federal backing could wake up one day and choose any property owned by an Igbo to steal. Jobs given to the more qualified Igbo were stolen by the ijaw. It was hellish until Bayelsa was created which helped reduce the control and tight grip of the ijaw in rivers but unfortunately the psychological damage was already done. It’s going to take years of reaching out and education (counseling) for these people to fully recover from the psychological damage which has caused them to being ashamed of being Igbo or seen as Igbo. I’m glad Nnaa MenTV is doing this and yes i am down to supporting you and the crew. If I ever visit home and you are on your expedition add me in. I’m willing to lend any assistance. As an Igbo from a mixed background it’s disheartening seeing folks who are even more Igbo than I am be so ashamed of themselves. As far as i am concerned even one drop of Igbo blood makes you Igbo but you must stand in it in good and bad times

[@MultiXTYPE]

Thank you so much brother 🙏 You have given us hope, we shall do more!

[@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767]

Ud Ob, if u no shut up & leave Ijaw out of ur mouth ehn ! How many abandoned properties do Ijaws own in Port Harcourt ? OBI WALI of RUMUIGBO dat was in charge of abandoned properties is he Ijaw? Ken Saro Wiwa na Ijaw man? All d UMUOKORO, UMUIGBO, UMUOLA etc dat has bin renamed RUMUOKORO, RUMUIGBO & RUMUOLA, all in a bid 2 deny Igbo, is it Ijaws dat r doing it? Ikwerre changed d names of their communities & towns just 2make dem sound less Igbo. Despite speaking Igbo language, bearing Igbo names, culture & tradition they still deny Igbo till 2day but u keep calling Ijaws. How many structures & properties were in d Ijaw territory of Port Harcourt? As at d civil war era, d part of Port Harcourt dat was well developed & had structures was d Ikwerre part. Wich Ijaw person will leav Abuloma, Borokiri, Bundu, Marine Base 2com and claim properties in Aba Road, RUMUIGBO, RUMUOKORO, RUMUOMASI, RUMUODARA, RUMUOSI, etc If u mention Ijaw again thunder go fire ur mouth scatter. Rubbish

[@Factwithced3473]

@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 he's saying the truth The truth is bitter That's why obi wali wanted port Harcourt state for igbos in old rivers state before bayelsa was now created

[@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767]

@@Factwithced3473 JENEWARI DAPPA BIRIYE, frm d DAPPA WAR CANOE HOUSE, wich is d Royal family of Grand Bonny. He studied at Bonny Government School then proceeded to King's College, Lagos. In 1941, he co-founded Ijo Peoples League,a platform to unite Ijos that were in different divisions of the Eastern region under one province. After the end of World War II, Biriye was involved in politics, he was an early member of NCNC but his experience of the competition between NCNC and AG formed his understanding that ethnic minorities needed better representation as the core base of both parties came from the Igbo and Yoruba ethnic groups. He began a campaign for the creation of Rivers States. In 1953, he gained the support of the Action Group for the creation of an independent State but the plan to include Old Calabar and Ogoja provinces as part of a new COR state pushed him away from the group. In response to the need of the 1957 Constitutional Conference to include all shades of opinions, Biriye pressed for the representation of Ijos among the delegates. He was supported by the Conference of Rivers Chiefs which gave him the mandate to represent the Ijo region at the conference and also to present their case that the area should be accorded the same status as it was in the 1880s when the Oil Rivers Chiefs of Bonny, Nembe, Brass, Okrika, Kalabari and Degema signed treaties with the British. Unsuccessful legal presentations were made by Biriye and Udo Udoma that granting independence to Nigeria without adequate protection of the rights of Rivers Provinces as a separate state would be a violation of the treaties. In 1959, he became the chairman of the Bonny County Council. In 1967, changes in the structure of governance led to the creation of Rivers State and in 1969, Biriye was appointed a commissioner. He was commissioner for Agriculture and later redeployed to work in the state's Ministry of Works.

[@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767]

@@Factwithced3473 Wich truth is he saying? Dat Ijaws took abandoned properties? If u want 2talk about abandoned properties in Port Harcourt, start with ur fellow Igbos, d Ikwerre ppl. I ask u, is it IJAW ppl dat changed UMUOKORO 2 RUMUOKORO? Is it Ijaws dat changed d names of almost all d Ikwerre towns/villages frm UMU to RUMU, so dat it won't sound Igbo? Is it Ijaws dat renamed OBIGBO 2 OYIGBO? U ppl just lik 2mention Ijaws, wot's ur problem. Ikwerres r denying Igbo till 2day, yet it's Ijaw u r blaming. R Ijaws majority in Rivers State? Igbos r majority, so y haven't u taken over Port Harcourt if Ikwerres r cooperating with u Igbos? Ikwerres r denying u upandan, how is dat d fault of Ijaws? As 4d creation of Rivers State ,go & research about JENEWARI DAPPA BIRIYE, a chief frm d Royal family of Grand Bonny Kingdom, d DAPPA WAR CANOE HOUSE. He founded IJAW PEOPLE'S LEAGUE in 1940 2fight 4d rights of Ijaws prior 2d independence of Nigeria. It was d IJAW PEOPLE'S LEAGUE he founded in 1940 dat later gave rise 2d present IZON NATIONAL CONGRESS. JENEWARI DAPPA BIRIYE had wanted d creation of Rivers State, a homogeneous IJAW State long b4 Rivers State was created. Go research about d ppl who pushed 4d creation of Rivers State. He wanted a Rivers State solely 4 Ijaws, but a COR was proposed so DAPPA BIRIYE shunned it . COR means Calabar Ogoja Rivers. U r talking about OBI WALI. Wich Obi Wali ?

[@biafrawatch9604]

Ekpeye and Arochukwu people have a lot in common in the olden days.

[@SIMPLETV939.]

The same name they called plates is the same we called it here in Ugwogo Nike - Enugu East Local government.

[@onyinyeekine6230]

This is a correct ekpeye man

[@okaforgodswill2906]

I want to clear something. Origination and migration is two different thing . They might migrate from benin . But for sure originated from eze chima , and are captured by benin people. And later migrated to rivers on the coastal line. As u were told in ukwani. That it has border with egbema or ndoni & ogba. If u watch closely all these language are closely ikah and are related to ikwerre. So it's still one people migration story that is going. Like the way. Nri people migrated all down to aro. Also. It also same thing. So I do want u to explain clearly to them difference between migration and origination.

[@obiflex]

You made very valid points. Centuries ago, there were Igbos in the area now known as Delta State, even extending slightly into present day Edo state. At its height, some of these groups were attacked by the Benin empire. Some were conquered and ruled by Benin for a while and others fled across the river Niger. Onisltsha is said to have migrated from Asaba. But these Igbo groups had earlier originated from the Igbo heartland and spread out through the river Niger into the present day Delta and Edo states before some of them migrated again, to escape the Benin empire, to present day Rivers and cross rivers. It's a long journey and the history requires more in depth study

[@kingjohn4443]

@@obiflex my brother go with your fake story

[@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767]

@@kingjohn4443 😆😆😅

[@obinnaunakalamba4725]

@@obiflex : There are still IGBOS in Edo State as we speak. They're called Igbanke and Olije.

[@ShakurDarin]

We igbos dominating u people no Need to laugh

[@udob4939]

75 percent of the words spoken by that man are easily understood by any Igbo person regardless is different dialects

[@kingjohn4443]

Speaking or doing something similar to igbo does not make you an igbo person ok

[@udob4939]

@@kingjohn4443 have several seats Speaking or doing something as a native makes you who you are unless you can prove you spoke a different language and the one you are speaking is a second language. Move on

[@johnpaulgodwin2885]

@@kingjohn4443 don't put ur mouth into this matter if you don't know what happened after the war in 1970. Nigeria criminal govt suppressed them and wrote a dubious, criminal and misleading history

[@kingjohn4443]

@@johnpaulgodwin2885 you are tu young to change history my brother please try follow what your father tells you about where you came from and by wisdom your father or grandfather is older than nigeria

[@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767]

@@kingjohn4443 They say ur fathers, kings, elders r bloody liars. Only their own elders & fathers tell d truth. Oda ppl's kings & fathers r born liars bcos of civil war. Evn som history, well documented centuries ago clearly indicating non-Igbo identity, is still due 2 civil war 😒

[@charlesduru5838]

I knew you are going to come with market days

[@safetydeskltd9047]

Thanks

[@zizkazi]

Ekpeye dialect is one of the hardest to understand in the Igbo cluster of dialects but its not as hard as Ikwo or Izzi/Ezza dialects of Ebonyi. But this their story that they migrated from Bini is a strange one. I dont see anything Bini about them

[@esonorharmonize3373]

You won't see until you come closer and learn more about them. Forget what you are being told, just come closer and you'll understand why we are never Igbo. It's easy to think we are, no one denies their history that way, from a long period of time. Hope you all know it's not of recent the migration started.

[@okekechidi3377]

@@esonorharmonize3373 you are not an Ekpeye man I know ekpeye people and non of them have such name Esonor. Fake thing like you..

[@esonorharmonize3373]

@@okekechidi3377 Damn I see why some people don't like you, you guys can be so annoying. How can you tell an Ekpeye man from Ogbo community, an originally Umuanuleke family in Umuakpa that he is not an Ekpeye man because you don't recognize his name that shows that to know nothing about the Ekpeye that you are even arguing about. The Esonor is even my grand father's name so it's been long and if you search fb you will see more Esonors. You guys are really annoying, I have been trying to correct many of you, but your comment was the most silly comment. My name is Esonor Umantazhi and your comments just proves most of you Igbos know nothing you are arguing about Ekpeye. Any Ekpeye man right now will recognize this name. Maybe that's what I should be catching you people with by asking you if you know hats Esonor. Your argument is baseless.

[@esonorharmonize3373]

@@okekechidi3377 Imagine someone baring Okeke Chide talking of Ekpeye names🤣🤣🤣

[@esonorharmonize3373]

@@okekechidi3377 Or because I have no Igbo name added to mine for you to argue about that I'm Igbo🤣🤣 that's why I said come to Ahoada so you'll know that it's not more than 20% Igbo words we use.

[@SIMPLETV939.]

Ugwogo Nike in Enugu East Local government called God the same name as he pronounced.

[@udob4939]

See

[@ndubuisiezeoye2099]

It could be that this man is correct by saying they migrated from Benin. Before, Benin was known as Iduu and it was an Igbo community then before the great "Agha Iduu na ọbá". During that invasion, many of the Iduu people and its neighbouring Igbo communities fled (south)eastward and settled wherever they think is safe for them. The invading Yorubas came over and occupy those places,they mixed up with the Igbo remnants of Iduu kingdom. That mixture was what gave birth to Edo (Benin),as we know it today. So, if the ancestors of the Ekpeye people were among those who fled, they're still Igbo. Their Igboness is indicated in everything about them, linguistically, culturally, anthropologically, logically etc Ekpeye dialect--Mmenye ọzụ Standard Igbo--Mmanya azụ Ekpeye dialect--Mmenye onunu Standard Igbo--Mmanya onunu Ekpeye dialect--Ali Standard Igbo--Ala Ekpeye--Olu Standard Igbo--Elu Ekpeye--inyoma Standard Igbo--inyom Ekpeye--koma Standard Igbo--ikom If it's today's Bini that they are claiming, they're not being truthful because looking at the locations of the ethnic groups in that area, Ekpeye is at the "backyard" of Igbo, Bini people cannot successfully migrate to that area as Bini, because the ijaws will be on their way and they will have to mix up with Ijaw or be integrated into Isoko, Urhobo or the Ijoid society. In addition,they is no trace of Bini in them. Igbo, Yoruba and other tribes' slaves maintained at least 20%of their heritage even while under suppression as slaves in the Americas. But, the free Ekpeye people did not have any atom of Edoid in them,are they trying to deceive their decendants? Everything about Ekpeye indicates Igbo origin; language, culture, dressing, food etc,that is why linguists and anthropologist will always have them as Igboid.

[@osazeeomoruyi882]

God will continue punish you igbos who are trying to rewrite fake history, imagine people who claim you're from Israel claiming ownership of other people allow us to be, we know our origins you can't change history the benin is not the best or richest tribe in Nigeria we claim benin Bcaz we knew our forefathers originated from benin

[@esonorharmonize3373]

Lol most of you need to research more before you spit you know. Saying they can not successfully migrate from Bini is funny. Maybe you don't know why it's called the Niger delta, from Benin, Delta, Bayelsa to Rivers state we are connected, we are down, which is the south, even when the British were fighting the Nembe man, he moved from Bayelsa to Bonny to ask for support on a normal day if you look at it, it seems impossible for such movement. But water connected it and the water is the fastest way to move. Delta state is not far from Ahoada, especially Ndoni delta state is not far from there, thats how the bad boys escape easily eg Don Wani when he excaped to delta through the thick forest, and you know delta is so close to Bini. Infact it's easier to migrate from Benin to Rivers state if you don't know, also don't forget that, Bayelsa was once Rivers state.

[@esonorharmonize3373]

Saying Yoruba invaded and made Benin dey burst my brain😂😂 abi Yoruba even came from Benin

[@esonorharmonize3373]

Only 20% of Igbo in Ekpeye, if I speak you won't even understand me, Umantazhi

[@IkesLionsDen]

There was an Igbo element in Ancient Beni. Remember, a Kingdom has various ethnic groups. That's where the confusion comes from. Migrating from Benin does not mean you descend from Edo. Igbos were in Ancient Benin.

[@HappinessIbe-fq8rk]

Thanks à lot am an ekpeye girl watching from europe

[@NnaaMehnTv]

Thank you for sharing our thoughts and opinions about unifying the Bia speaking people.

[@willyboy4248]

The biafran war was faught at the wrong time. Very premature.

[@chukwuemekaekelaka5573]

very premature....Ojukwu mess up

[@ibehchukwuemeka1417]

I’m full ekpeye blood 😢

[@esonorharmonize3373]

Just like the children Nwo in the main ekepeye language it should be oomele

[@esonorharmonize3373]

You should have also tried to visit Ula Ehuda and maybe Ubeta or any other old town

[@cryptowave1798]

Ekpeye is igbo subgroup

[@udochukwunnadi6341]

These Igbos claiming Bini Origin needs to study history and know how their ancestors migrated tro and fro cause even Bini kingdom rejected their claim as Bini people..

[@udochukwunnadi6341]

These are the people their fathers went to Bini when Bini kingdom was one of the greatest in the South and their children went back and settled in ekpeye. They should have had Bini names and cultures.

[@EDayAllDay]

Thanks for this man 👊

[@queenprecious6580]

Cus most people in lagos here don't know about ekpeye people Cus is not always shown online

[@maxwellbernard5809]

Being under British empire doesn't make one a British , for example , If you were under Bini kingdoms doesn't make you a Bini man

[@HappyCheckers-sd3bh]

Wow

[@ChukunaluOssai]

The simple fact here is that Igbo language, dialects and Igboid Languages exists....This is a classification by the British colonial masters and not what the indeginious people choose for themselves.

[@lordfedjoe]

I'm interested in knowing what they name their villages. British can not make their villages because their villages already have name before British arrive.

[@chiozo11]

Ekpeye has to be the furthest dialect resembling Igbo. There words are more further away thank Ika. I wonder if this language is even more away from general Igbo language than Izzi dialect.

[@diokparaazuokechukwu4207]

true ika dialect is more of general Igbo than Ekpeye , Ebireba, izzi dialect

[@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767]

Ekpeye has som Edo in it, but largely Igbo still

[@chiozo11]

@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 there an Edo subgroup with tens of thousands of people that live around them in Ahoada West. That may be a reason too.

[@esonorharmonize3373]

That's because Ekpeye is never Igbo, I don't know why an Igbo man wants to force us to be Igbo

[@anthonyokponku9673]

@@esonorharmonize3373 another Fulani goat

[@oyirianyunkuigbokwe7110]

In Igbere which is in Bende LGA of Abia state, Ibina- okpabi is Chineke (God). Ekpeye people are Igbo. The Nigerian/ Biafran civil war destroyed people's perception about who they really are especially those outside the five Igbo states due to unnecessary offers of political gains. It's a pity

[@onyinyeekine6230]

The children in ekpeye language is umeledhe Sister is nwaname uyouma Brother is nwaname ukouma

[@uzopaul871]

Bible said it all, at last lost tribes shall be DISCOVERED

[@onyediidike560]

And God also said he will send out emissaries/saviors to gather his dispersed in all four corners of the earth. This thing 'nna mehn' is doing is also being done by our brothers in US and the Caribbean.

[@mikeezeala4115]

Since he said that they migrated from Benin kingdom, is Ekpeye language, also speaking in Benin?

[@anthonytobi9773]

Must they speak Igbo? The ga people in Ghana are of Benin origin but they don't speak Bini language.

[@joechucks1555]

@@anthonytobi9773 stop spreading lies

[@leonardorjioffor6683]

The point is that all these rivers Igbos are completely lost in identity, it's same lies that Ikwerres are claiming is same that Etche people are claiming, same with Opobo, Obigbo, and others, it's always same all make up stories which cannot hold grounds

[@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767]

Baba must u include Opobo 4ur talk? Wot is d lies & made up stories dat can't hold grounds? I dunno of oda kingdoms & clans, but 4 OPOBO, we hv always identified as IJAW. D likes of Ikwerre, we can c it's after civil war d denial of Igbo began. 4 instance, UMUIGBO is now RUMUIGBO. UMUOKORO is now RUMUOKORO but Opobo doesn't hv any history of Igbo names or changing names of towns frm Igbo name 2 somtin else. FINIMA, OLOMA, IWOMA, KALABIAMA, AYAMINIMA, MINIMA, OKOLOMA etc diz r d names of towns in Bonny & Opobo kingdom since ancient times till 2day. We haven't renamed or changed any name frm Igbo 2 Ijaw. D names dat hv bin changed is dat of individuals, Igbo slaves or escapees frm slave raiders/kidnappers, outcasts, ppl barnished frm their towns or ppl meant 4 sacrifice who managed 2 escape. Wen ENCULTURATED, their Igbo names r dropped & replaced with Ijaw names. Dis practice was centuries b4 d creation of Nigeria & has nothing 2do with Biafran civil war. Or is OPUBO(OPOBO) an Igbo name? Is JUBO-JUBOFEM an Igbo name? D story of how Opobo was founded is there on record. D history of d founding of Opobo was documented evn by Europeans, it has bin told a zillion times over. Wot lies r u now referring 2in Opobo history? MBANASO Okwaraozurumba frm Amaigbo in present day Imo State was sold by a slave trader Ojukwu frm Ogwuta in present day Imo State. Chf Alali Opubo of d Ani Pepple War Canoe House bought Mbanaso, eventually ENCULTURATED him thus changing his name MBANASO OKWARAOZURUMBA to JUBO-JUBOFEM OPUBO wich Europeans couldn't pronounce & called him JAJA OPOBO. Following a dispute , Jaja, along with 14 other WAR CANOE HOUSES left Bonny, d king of Nkòrò accommodated dem & gave dem land 2settle thus a new kingdom was founded wich Jaja named after his father Chf OPUBO (OPOBO). D names JUBO-JUBOFEM OPUBO, r they Igbo names? Y was MBANASO OKWARAOZURUMBA renamed JUBO-JUBOFEM OPUBO? Y is he not known as MBANASO OKWARAOZURUMBA of AMAIGBO? Y is he JAJA of OPOBO instead? Wot is d lies & make up stories in Opobo history? Y r u guys obsessed with Opobo matter, calling us liars? U r non natives, yet u call ppl liars bcos u tink u know their own history more dan dem. Na wah o !

[@udob4939]

@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 if you are from opobo and you identify as ijaw or Chinese that’s your business but remove we from your lies. I know opobo folks that identify as Igbo. My relatives from Bonny also identify as Igbo. Quit speaking for everyone you Ijaw revisionist. You people have this annoying tendency foolishly tryin to annex even ppl that don’t speak your language at all. You have started your crap in Ndoki, Obolo, etc. Even the Ibibio are gettin tired of you ppl

[@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767]

@@udob4939 Who is annexing Ndoki? Who has time 2force anybody? U tink we r lik u guys dat r busy forcing Ikwerre despite all their denial of Igbo 🤪

[@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767]

@@udob4939 If u say u know Opobo folks dat identity as Igbo does dat make d whole Opobo Igbo? Those folks, wot r their names & surname/War Canoe House? D so called folks u say identity as Igbo, just gv one name & surname let's see d Igboness in dem. Bcos if they identify as Igbo, their names/surnames will reflect dat. Gv us one War Canoe House in Bonny or Opobo dat is an Igbo name. Gv us names of those cousins of urs frm Bonny or Opobo let's see their Igbo names. If I tell u I know Arochukwu folks who identity as Ibibio does dat make Arochukwu bcom Ibibio? Una go just dey blab upandan. D Jaja dat was Igbo, y did his name change frm MBANASO OKWARAOZURUMBA to JUBO-JUBOFEM OPUBO? He was a king, he was free, y didn't he return 2 Amaigbo? At least y didn't he change his name back 2 MBANASO or any Igbo name if he so much wanted 2b Igbo? Y dis he die with an Ijaw name? Non of his chiren was given an Igbo name. Jaja wey deny Igbo left & right till d day he died. Jaja knows how good Ijaws r. If na Igbo land will u allow Jaja 2evn marry & mix up freely with freeborn & royalty? Where in Igboland will u allow a non native, a total stranger, a slave 4dat matter 2bcom a king ? U guys want 2reap where u did not sow. Furubo ! Eke 🐀 🐁

[@udob4939]

@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 I didn’t even care to read all that rubbish. I’m one of those Aro ppl that are partly Ibibio and I don’t deny being Igbo. No Aro man will tell he is flat out Ibibio. He identifies as Igbo and then recognizes he’s partly Ibibio if he can prove it. My family Answer Ibibio surname and yes we are Igbo so the same applies to families in Opobo and Bonny that may have Ibani name but are still ethnically Igbo. You are too tiny of an ethnic group to think the much large Igbo population can’t swallow you up in those islands. I’ve seen many of your confused drunk men take their madness to Ndoki, Obolo and many communities that don’t even speak any Ijaw language nor have ijaw names. Y’all are land grabbers and are desperate to confuse people so you can migrate over and start fighting over land that don’t belong to you. I mean a people who once stole Igbo properties in rivers after the war can’t be trusted at all. Y’all are thieves and the only you are known for is thievery and land grabbing. All we are doing is identifying who is who in the East and you feeling jittery and threatened. Why so? What is it about Igbo speakers in the East and Niger delta area identify themselves and being proud to be Igbo that threatens you ijaw people?

[@sundaykene2270]

It’s not possible for you people to use Igbo language in your schools and churches and bear Igbo names if you are not Igbo. From what you said here, your language is Igboic

[@ChinonsoAgbor-us8xm]

It is very possible, when Britain colonized Nigeria, that’s how we learned how to speak English, like we all know, it’s a borrowed language, exactly how the Igbos came to dominate Ekpeye, we were very primitive and that’s how they were able to implant most of their cultures in us

[@mujoco5246]

Ibo people should accept that they came from old Midwest, which is ika,igbanke, ukwuani

[@mujoco5246]

@@anyigadi your father and your mother be mumu ayamiri fool

[@tochika3598]

Igbo not ibo . Illiteracy ignorance is a disease honestly.💥

[@mujoco5246]

@@tochika3598 ibo ayamiri fool

[@uzopaul871]

who are you? what is the name of your tribe?

[@mujoco5246]

@@uzopaul871 proudly ika man

[@offcialerikai1226]

Jisike.

[@Live_IT_]

Igbo people in Obowo Imo State people answer Chime

[@ifeanyiegbu951]

Am from Obowu, we don't answer Chime. Chime is a name bore by Enugu people particularly; Nkanu and Udi people

[@okekechidi3377]

Not a single atom of Benin in their language at all. The Benin monarchy are definitely invaders of their current Binin Abode. Very interesting.

[@wellingtonomoregie-uh1ve]

Even if their is a single atom of bini language in it you would still argue. The ika people has bini language and some bear bini language yet you still argue about it.

[@MegwaRayDr]

These people are just confused! Who told them that they are from Bini?

[@gertrudeamadi3434]

Nigeria mess our peoples mind and confused it’s purely dialect thanks nnaa

[@udob4939]

Nigeria has really dealt with us ohh. The kinda damage that nation and its people have done to the Igbo is unforgivable. Imagine how many year after the war we are still afraid to be identified as Igbo. Folks just be making up stories of affinity with people that won’t even spit on them if they were on fire. I dare the Ekpeye to go to Bini and demand land or their Oba title let’s see how accepting they will be to them lol smh

[@Factwithced3473]

You came from Bini but speak an igboid language Engenni wey share LGA with ekpeye that migrate from Bini kept their edoid language but ekpeye which is much bigger threw away everything Confusion

[@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767]

Explore, they didn't throw away EVERTIN. They call Mother, INA, Father is ADA. Sister, Brother, Go & Come, all diz words r Edoid, not Igbo. Dat's lik Epie/Engenni too. Ekpeye dialect is largely Igbo but has little Edoid too. Like Epie/Engenni is a mixture of Edo & Ijaw languages

[@Factwithced3473]

@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 come is "ja" in ekpeye which if you're a linguist u would know that its a cognate of "bia" which is igbo This applies to others

[@johnsonchikachika2318]

I wanted to hear Benin language from my bros.Because I'm hearing what the man is saying which means all those who claiming Benin Empire is fake.When you listen to the man he said they came from some where they come Benin that is fake oo.If you reason about we come from this Benin of a thing is like some slave turned to Benin

[@christopherchunuwe7713]

Ahoada is Igbo community.

[@stepheniwundi9159]

I would like to support your channel but the approach in the interview does not encourage me. It's understandable you don't want friction with the natives but at least ,ask them what's Bini in their language where they claim they are coming from. They should name parts of their bodies. Do they understand or speak Bini?

[@ZirWin]

You are right

[@osazeeomoruyi882]

Igbos who claim they are from Israel did they speak Israeli language

[@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767]

Stephen, y wud there b friction if d natives r asked 2speak their language. It won't cause any problems na. It will simply confirm or disprove d notion dat they r Igbos

[@udob4939]

@@osazeeomoruyi882 Claiming somewhere and facts are two things. I can claim to be Chinese if i like and it still won’t change the fact im Igbo plus Ibibio Igbos who claim Israeli are jokers also being an Israeli doesn’t mean you can’t be non- Jewish. We have Arab Israeli and they speak Arabic Igbo people are not Jews and don’t speak a single language spoken by Jews. Case closed Now go mind your Bini business

[@udob4939]

Still support the Channel while you offer constructive criticism

[@henrymackson263]

The truth is that, the igbos are good on forcing there language on people. Up to these days. if you go to east, and you ask question as a stranger with nomal Nigeria English. An igbo person will know you are a stranger, and you can't speak his or her language. They will only reply you with an igbo language, instead of that same Nigeria common english. Make you to feel, you can't identify with them if you don't speak there language. That is how intimidating the igbos are. And I believe this what they had don to many other tribes that coexisted with them in the past.

[@diceydaze]

igboland is the only place you can go in nigeria and speak either pidgin, english or igbo and u will be understood and communicated with, stop spreading lies about a people u don't know. go to the north without knowing hausa or the west without knowing yoruba.. you can't do anything. igbo people are the only majority that aren't extremely cultural and tribalistic in their ways.. mosr igbos can't speak without throwing in a couple words of english now and then which is becoming a problem among the igbo speaking pple hence the need for videos like this.

[@amadiohastruck4331]

You never travel.

[@SegaLinks-li2hh]

..you sound frustrated & sad 😂😂

[@Blackrussianwrites]

This people are not Igbo,based on the interviews they’re totally different from other places you’ve visited

[@tochika3598]

He said they migrated from Bini but no single word spoken to show bini connection. Atleast 50percent of ekpeye is Igbo.🤔

[@uzopaul871]

who are you? what is the name of your tribe?

[@all3049]

Funny guy.. but the have the same God with Igbo?

[@emmanueljunior3246]

Most of the people who migrated from Benin kingdom are comprised of the then Benin empire, later Bendel state and now Edo and Delta of which each of the two states consist of Igbo inhabitants. All of them that migrated are from Igbo extraction in old Benin empire

[@obiflex]

There's no doubt that they mixed with and assimilated people from other ethnic groups in the course of their migration but they're a predominantly Igbo. Their dialect is not further from central igbo than Abiriba or Izzi

[@wellingtonomoregie-uh1ve]

The bini don't force people to be bini. When people trace ancestry to a particular tribe it may be true and it may not be true. Why arguing with them. Where you part of their ancestors that migrated. Ezike-oba in enugu state claimed ancestry to the bini. I cannot force them to be who they don't want to be for man is a free moral agent. In benue the igede people trace ancestry to the bini. Would you compelled them to be idoma or tiv?.No one know history of a lineage more than the people of that lineage.

[@obinnaunakalamba4725]

Infact the origin of the Igbo god AMADIOHA is from Ekpeye.

[@primeminister51]

This man is bereft of his heritage. The Ahoada dialect is a derivative of the Igbo language. In denying his heritage this man ended up making a huge fool of himself. The Igbo didn't impose the Igbo language on them. If that was the case, the Efik, Ijaw, and the Ibibio would have been Igbonized too. His answer to that question exposed his ignorance.

[@markjoshua7590]

Ekpeye is not igbo...

[@primeminister51]

Joshua-Just you know, the Igbos don't care about how Ekpeye people choose to identify themselves.

[@markjoshua7590]

@@primeminister51 I beg to differ, to be frank they're actually obsessed. I remember seeing lots of igbo map which included ekpeye land as part of igbo. I have also had numerous arguments with igbos on this same topic.

[@primeminister51]

@@markjoshua7590 Those maps you referred to that included Ekpeye as a part of the Igbo nation were the authentic representation of the known Igbo country recognized and recorded by the early Portuguese slave merchants. So, to conclude that the inclusion of the Ekpeye people into the Igbo political sphere can only come from a place of ignorance of the facts of our collective existence. Those maps merely restated the truth. Any group of people can embrace their heritage or reject it. If the Ekpeye people have chosen to identify with others, that's their prerogative. I don't think the Igbos would skip a heartbeat over it.

[@keep-goin7765]

if they migrated from Benin, why are they not speaking nor hearing benin language,

[@southsouth3615]

Lol..I am isoko... despite sharing some words with edo or bini people when they speak real sentences I don't understand it either but yet people will point out that isokos are migrants from Edo. So just because he doesn't understand bini doesn't take away their migration.. do you know how long ago we are talking about . Before colonial people arrived.

[@keep-goin7765]

@@southsouth3615 the only possible scenario is a mixup with the benin people as a result of Benin empire encroaching into ikaland and installing their Benin blood as Traditional leaders, like what the fulanis did with the hausas,

[@gokusdisciple2154]

Ekpeye is from the ancient kingdom of bini and it’s not some post war made up story, we have royal families that keeps the history alive,my family alone have been saying this for 200 years,The king at the time Eze Ashirim Unoshi in 1940’s even let the colonizers know our origin. We speak Igbo Because that is taught in school and that is the language they used to push the Bible. Bini language is Sacred and doesn’t travel but we do have towns with the same name as them and we have words and names the Igbo wouldn’t understand.even the oba of bini has embraced us and agreed.Not everything is political some things are just fact and I see you only interviewed one man smart move because everybody else would’ve gave you the same story even the young ones.

[@udob4939]

Lol 😂 being accepted by Bini. Your inferiority complex is astounding. I see how you tried your best to minimize the Igbo in you. Can the Bini understand expeye? The answer is no. I’m not fluent in Ekpeye as much as I’m not fluent in many Igbo or Igboid dialects but I definitely have seen Bini language written and nothing about Ekpeye is Bini. Also being under Bini control thanks to their conquest of many non-Bini groups doesn’t make you Bini and there is nothing special about it. So by your logic you a Bini subgroup? SMH

[@udob4939]

And no Igbo language was not taught or forced on you. You speak an Igbo dialect or Igboid language and it is organic. It wasn’t imposed on you because even the different Igbo groups never came together to conquer anyone and impose themselves on you. Stop falsely accusing the Igbo of imperialism.

[@udob4939]

Bini had no kingdom in Ekpeye land also even United Kingdom has non-English people like Welsh, Irish and Scottish people. It doesn’t make them English. I know you are desperately trying your best to distance yourself from being seen as Igbo but I can tell you outside of East you will always be Igbo to people no matter the story you want to create.

[@gokusdisciple2154]

@@udob4939 who came up with the term sub group? I have nothing against Igbo we marry and trade you should stop caring so much about what other think of you. Your language argument doesn’t move me. since you speak English I guess your people origins are from England. and we our not under no one’s control bini is just the root. I never accused you of imperialism remember that has never been your strong suit. If people live near each other for hundreds of years sooner or later they will sound similar why would my people have an inferior complex when God has blessed us with everything even oil 😉. I’m royalty sir there will be no back and forth. You people don’t practice kingship like that voodoo or juju.

[@udob4939]

@@gokusdisciple2154 osi Oil lol that oil has been a curse and mind you it’s all over Igbo land so what exactly are you doing bragging about something other people have in abundance. You are claiming to be Bini which is laughable because nothing in your dialect of the Igbo language is Bini or is mutually intelligible to a Bini man so drop the Bini argument. Is Eze a Bini name? Your eze led you out of an oppressive empire that dominated other ethnic groups. If you were Bini you would have stayed there and you would be speaking Bini. Subgroups exist. You can’t be this willfully uneducated about Ethnicity and the sub-groups under them. Yoruba have Sub-groups Fulani have subgroups Mmong have subgroups What is the subgroup of Ekpeye? Does Ekpeye have dialects? No because ekpeye isn’t language hence it’s a subgroup of the Igbo ethnic group just Aro people are a sub-group. While proximity can influence language of people it can’t completely erase the language to the point of Ekpeye situation. As we all know being Igbo or identifying as Igbo in rivers after the war was a dangerous game so I understand your fear but in 2022 it’s time to let it go and have some courage. I can pass as Ibibio out of fear of being seen as Igbo but i won’t because I am Igbo.

[@PrinceOkpara-z6k]

Ekpeye never migrated from bini. Rather a group whom the ekpeye call Edhi-wulu (the lost unblical cord). To know ekpeye history you mist research the grate Akalaka who had many sons, one of which went on and ruled the bini empire. A war in bini toppled his dynasty and their descendants had to make their way back home. Ekpeye also share ancestry with the Arochukwu and the onitsha people. Bottom line. Ekpeye and ibo are not seperable. Our history did not start in bini. Our ancestor Akalaka preceeds the bini kingdom.

[@johngomez7969]

Alot of people have lost their identity how can you say you migrate from Benin but you lost your name and your language both culture. All in the name of oil people forceful deny they identity and change their name into something else

[@southsouth3615]

Igbo people need to understand what it is to migrate. If I list a lot of isoko words for you you will think we are igbos because they are very similar. For the fact that the ekpeye people have lived with Igbo neighbours for long it has influenced their language a lot which is very clear. UNU in ekpeye is mouth and UNU is the same mouth in isoko just like agba is jaw in isoko I believe is same in ekpeye. If you listen a lot to the pronounciations of words they have a lot of dh in their words which you can find in isoko. My point is you can't conclude that they are igbos just because they now speak similar words. It's called migration. Ask any engenni person to list words in engenni or yenagoa people and ask isoko guys..50% is isoko language the rest is migration mixing up with their neighbours today. Leave the ekpeye people alone to identify themselves don't impose anything on them . I don't like it when people call me edo people just because we share some words together as isoko. That is how it is. My language has some edo, Igbo and some ijaw in it and other unique words that you will never hear in any other language that is why we are who we are. We are all connected in niger delta and eastern Nigeria .let us be united but not trying to make others slaves of another ethnic group.

[@ndubuisiezeoye2099]

I understand what you're saying, but their is a difference between being similar and being the same. Ekpeye is actually a dialect of the greater Igbo language, just like your Isoko language has it's own dialects,an average Ekpeye man understands the standard Igbo ,they practice the Igbo culture just as those in the southeast, those things that made southeast people Igbo is also what they have. Why would Ekpeye not be Igbo,is it because they're in River State? Idoma language has many Igbo words,but nobody is claiming them because their language is just another language and they have their own culture. Any body who says that Ekpeye is not Igbo should please explain what he understood by the word" Igbo",

[@chuksmoxie7150]

Well said. Igbos can't go about claiming other smaller ethnic groups just because they share similar words, traditions, and festivals with them. We are whom we've chosen to be based on our peculiarities.

[@lordfedjoe]

Was it Igbo that named their villages? No Igbo is claiming them, people have right to choose who they are and want to be. But I hope if this man go to Isoko and commit crime, you won't come here to say na Igbo man

[@abelfavour1676]

How about the culture and the marriage ceremony that he explained, is the same with igbos, so what do you have to say about that because what he explained about marriage is only Igbo that practice it in Nigeria

[@margaretadekunle4017]

If answer Igbo name you speak Igbo dialect and you don’t speak the language of the people you said you originated from the person is a bastard. Nothing more nothing short.

[@esonorharmonize3373]

I can't believe that and elderly man older than most of you here, which also his father and grand and great grand must have told him is history is now telling you that he migrated from Benin and you that is from another land is doubting him and telling him his history in the comment section. Sometimes I wonder how some of you think, you think people just appear from no where and decide to lie ? So everybody in Ekpeye land is lying about their history?

[@godfreyunaka6938]

I know in a Country where history is not taught it is hard to know what is correct. If you do your research you will find that Igbos have been living in what is called Nigeria today for over 3000. years, and are the oldest indigenous ethnic group in Nigeria. In those 3000 years Igbos have consistently moved all around the Niger Delta. When the man says they migrated from Bini, he is right but they are Igbos who migrated to Edo land at one point and then migrated away from Bini to the Rivers area. The irony is that all the major ethnic groups in the East and Midwest (Ijaw, Ibibio, Ika, Igala, Igbo) all have the same root. So Ikwerre, Ika, Ekpeye, Igbo are all brothers while Ijaw, Ibibio, Igala and Igbo are cousins.

[@esonorharmonize3373]

@@godfreyunaka6938 I don't have the time to read all your misinformation. History taught by? And written by? You should be old enough that some history written are political, you don't know the water more than a fish.

[@godfreyunaka6938]

@@esonorharmonize3373 I believe that we can always agree to disagree and do it without any rancor. Putting all politics aside, I suggest that you take the time to do your research. My statements are based on historical and archelogical research done by experts... But I think one of the challenges we have as Africans was that most of our history was oral rather than written, the gentleman who was interviewed was giving honest answers based on the oral history he was told. Meanwhile actual historians using archelogical science have written extensively on the histories of the different ethnic groups in Nigeria. According to them the Igbos were the oldest going back 3000 years the Bini were the second oldest going back 2000 years the Nupe 3rd followed by the Hausa and then the Yoruba about a 1000 years ago, the Fulani have been in Nigeria for less than 300 years making them the youngest ethnic group. Either way a pleasure chatting with you, and by the way I am over 60 years old so I think I am probably a bit older than you

[@chinemnwokeoma1755]

Two ibo men sat one place and made a video 😅😅😅 i am dying. Who hears igbo?

[@omobanedo9602]

I am Edo/Benin man. Here again, this interviewee (the Ekpeye man) has burst the bubble of the interviewer (Nnaa Mehn Tv man)! He categorically, I mean CATEGORICALLY said "We migrate from Benin (6:36)" The interviewer would love him to say we are Igbos. But no, the truth must be told! Thanks, sir Mr. Ekpeye man!

[@chibuikee7482]

Lol There is no historical account nor document to support such claim if there is bring it forth

[@omobanedo9602]

@@chibuikee7482 Oh my brother, there are and even when they are provided to you, you will say it was invented. So, gerraarra here, Ozuo!

[@diceydaze]

why the insult? , clearly you're not here for meaningful engagement@@omobanedo9602

[@chidimarshall4956]

@@omobanedo9602see mumu, how are they from Bini? People that have 4 market days and clearly speak the Igbo language and have Igbo names. Mugu 😅😂

[@omobanedo9602]

@@chidimarshall4956 All these are nonsense, please, talk to me for real! 4 market days make an ethnicity of a people? Speaking close to your Igbo dialects makes such ethnicity an Igbo? You people will cry for a long time oooo! You people are too small for me, I am your elder and when I talk or say something, do never, ever argue with your nonsensicals!! God punish you, Oyamirin!

[@ucol2068]

So you migrated from Bini to rivers and pushed igbos out of their land or what exactly? Because you claim the place isn't igbo land.

[@bigiiyke2640]

You can't rewrite history ekpeye people's are from benin by ancestry, they where only influence by the lgbo because they share boundary they aren't igbos

[@IkesLionsDen]

Benin was a Kingdom not an ethnic group. Do you know how many Igbos were in Benin Empire

[@Live_IT_]

You’re a fool lol since they’re from Bini why don’t they share similarities with Bini😂🤣

[@Firstcycle]

The migration from bini is true... after all the first igbo writer said he came from bini. Not all igbo came from anambra or aro

[@obinnaunakalamba4725]

IGBOS lived in Bini first before the present Bini came. Eze Chima also migrated to Bini , and left Bini again after a dispute , and his children formed Agbor , Onitsha and other clans , the people of Ikwerre and Ekpeye are continuous children of Eze Chima , though they still are a mixture of Owerri as well. But truth is , even till date , there are still IGBOS in Edo State. The people of Igbanke and Olije are IGBOS in Edo State till date. Igbo is older than Bini on Earth .

[@wellingtonomoregie-uh1ve]

​@@obinnaunakalamba4725those of you igbo that claimed ancestry from the Jews what now change your culture, language, traditions?. If truly you came from Israel as you people claimed, then why compelling others to be igbo when similar situation happens to them.

[@Live_IT_]

@@wellingtonomoregie-uh1verest

[@bigiiyke2640]

Stop forcing them they know who they are ok even the obi of onitsha thrown came from benin kingdom

[@joechucks1555]

Eze chima wasn’t a bini man he lived in bini kingdom had a dispute with the oba and left how does that make the thrown bini?

[@emekanwokoye7603]

Ekpeye is an Igbo minority with an Igbo dialect. Their language is in no way connected to Benin kingdom. The man's traditional tongue tell tells that he has a lost Igbo ancestry. I could hear and understand everything he said in Ekpeye dialect

[@anthonytobi9773]

Marriage cultures are almost same in Africa and not necessarily tribe.

[@samu4319]

No that’s not correct, make your research before speaking in social media please

[@tamunoj5437]

The Interviewer trying very had to prove Ekpeye is Ibo, You need to understand that language is transient, Gather people from different tribes like Hausa, igbo, Edo, Ibibio etc. who do not understand English then you would get a new language

[@chinemnwokeoma1755]

This man is completely wrong in almost all the pronunciations.

[@Charly300-c3c]

The problem with IGBOs is that they're carrying cameras trying to convince people to be IGBO.. what a joke? Let them tell you who they are and just accept it and have PEACE Long live the EMPEROR of great Bini kingdom OmoN'Oba N'Edo

[@Charly300-c3c]

Jesus na force to be IGBO..? allow people their choice.. that's why some people are even worried when you get Biafra.. You people are forcing food wey others nor wan chop down their troat BIKO... He says he's from Bini end of story BYE EKPEYE understand? HABA 😮

[@preacherbeatsYT]

Ekpeye isn't igbo, igbo isn't ekpeye. End.

[@markjoshua7590]

Ekpeye is not igbo.....