Delta: Onicha-Olona youths protest, demand restoration of ancient kingship system

Youths of Ogbe-Obi Village successful Onicha-Olona, Aniocha North section authorities country of Delta State, person demanded the revival of their village’s accepted kingship rights.

During a protestation connected monday the younker insisted that Ogbe-Obi, historically recognized arsenic the “King’s Village,” should reclaim its close to nutrient the Obi, the accepted ruler of the community.

The protesters, carrying placards with inscriptions called for justness and the reinstatement of ancestral rights, arguing that the existent succession system, known arsenic Okpala-bu-isi, does not bespeak the village’s humanities and taste heritage.

According to them, the Okpala-bu-isi practice, which allows the astir elder rubric holder to ascend the throne, was introduced aboriginal and is alien to the authentic Onicha-Olona institution.

Addressing journalists aft the procession, renowned Nigerian reggae creator and indigene of Ogbe-Obi Village, Kandy Sea, stressed the humanities and statutory claims of his colony to the Obiship.

He alleged that the village’s accepted close to nutrient the Obi was unjustly disrupted during British assemblage regularisation successful 1900.

Kandy Sea called connected accepted authorities, the section authorities council, and the Delta State authorities to intervene and reconstruct justice, emphasizing that doing truthful would foster semipermanent bid and unity wrong the community.

“The restoration of our accepted righ...