My thoughts as I lay down to sleep. In the last fifteen years, a lot has happened to the itsekiri nation; I view these political,socio-economic and environmental occurences as those necessary for any developing ethnic nationality-no hard feelings. However, what I and a lot of people who are striving day and night for our people to develop are yet to come to terms with or really understand is d behavioural pattern of some itsekiris who, for lack of broad knowledge and accompanying intellectual perception, have refused to divorce community oil politic from main stream partisan politics. we are at a lose as to why the average itsekiri man believes, albeit erroneously, that they have the sole right as indigenes of their villages and so nobody living with them have a right to anything, including being voted into any political office. This aspect of our social ignorance accounts for why the itsekiri nation has not truly evolved into large societies. I can say that this was not the case before the advent of oil exploration-at least we had ibos, urhobos,kwales and even hausas in core itsekiri towns back then. The painful aspect of the social menace is that even itsekiris are no longer welcomed in other neighbouring itsekiri villages, so where are really heading to? Some people who left their village in the heat of the infamous warri crisis, refused to come even after the resolution of hostilities bcos they found home in sapele and warri-these same people now claim to be the owners of their abandoned villages without recourse to those who held forth for them when they ran off like scared rats. I am really wondering - I wonder.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:22:48 +0000
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