Well I am not new to Nairaland and their anti Edo sentiments. People here always find any excuse to insult the Edo people and the Oba.

First, nobody is born an Omuada, you are given to the palace by your parents. To say that an Omuada is in slavery is being starved is absolute lies. The last chief Omuada still has land cases with Efcc. When you serve as Omuada and you finish, you have a high network in the Palace. Omuada are treated well in Benin and with respect.

This story is one sided, whatever the case is, there is an issue of theft. The police will do their investigation. You will be surprised this same family of the boy will come out to beg this same Oba you are insulting.

We Edo people reverence our Monarch. The Oba of Benin derives his power from the Edo people. The Oba knows he is who he is because of the Edo people.

Has Edo people ever rebelled against an Oba yes we have. Has Edo people ever killed their own Oba, yes Edo people have done it. So there is nothing you folks will say that we haven't done.

But we don't joke with the Oba stool. You can go ahead and enjoy your cities and life. This is Benin and we are not complaining about the Monarchy I wonder why you guys are crying on our behalf...

Go and insult your fathers and mothers.

PrinceMajestic:
ok bro calm your nerves pls, No palace will tell you that they still do human sacrifices. ThankGod nairaland is a faceless forum I can express myself well, however the reasons for doing those things far outweigh it's criticism because you can only really understand some things if a King or a Prince birth you direct and you grew up in a palace. I know it is in all books that such things are abolished but thats not how it really is just that such things cannot be done in the open because we have civilized pass that era. The education u claim to get your knowledge from gets its information from royal sources but Royalty is like a natural and very deep occult. If you're not it then you're not it and you can never understand what is going on.

Man stop your impersonation, and your "scoop", and your weird and unsubstantiated claims which you want me to believe because you also have an other claim of being of royal blood... Man calm down with the claims and claims and justification of claims by other claims, none of what you say is substantiated. Just claims that anybody can make.

You are such a fraud. My mother's uncle Enogie Udobor was buried around ten years ago, there was no human sacrifice involved. His son has taken his place on the throne of Ugolo.

You are just a rumour and fraudulent kind of person.

JOemmy:



I don't think u can find such evil cultural practices anywhere in Europe the african culture is still very far from civilization.

you can think and accept anything about Europe however that doesn't make your thoughts correct

Blue3k:
Oba Of Benin In Modern Slavery Scandal, Uses Influence To Detain Palace Aide Who Served Him From Age 15 In Prison For Months, Denies Him Bail Over Allegation Of Stealing



Source: http://saharareporters.com/2022/02/19/exclusive-oba-benin-modern-slavery-scandal-uses-influence-detain-palace-aide-who-served

Why havn't the
Oba's palace priests used
metaphysical means to know who
stole the money? More like using
the highly effective Aiyelala to deal with the thieves... This is strange.

This SR is now very notorious
for publishing fake and embellished news!

This is how SaharaReporters lied to millions of folks that VP Yemi Osinbajo owns the land on which
the Ikoyi highrise building collapsed.
Very embarassing!

The VP has already sued SR
anyways. Is Omoyele depressed
or what?

This is not the Omoyele and SR
that were known for thorough investigative journalism back in
the day.

Blue3k:


How does the palace have the power to seize your property? Why would they take they take their property when they have nothing to do with it. Lol will they also punish their grand children and great grand children like north Korea? This story is so weird lets hope S.R covers the court case extensively.

you need to see the way they fear the oba here in benin.

Wow in 2023

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ProfAmaben:
The Benin people are easily brainwashed. The Obas were known to sacrifice human beings during the peak of their powers. The last Oba in1897 was said to sacrifice over 5,000 people when the British were invading (after 1897, the Obas are just advisers and wield no power, an LGA chairman is higher). The Obas are worshipped as gods but trust me, they don't have any power more than you and I.

Britain burnt down the whole Benin in less than 4hrs, looted their palace and shrines including their highest god whom they sacrificed millions of humans to, if these Obas were spiritual and powerful, would such have happened?

Today, they are doing everything possible to restore the Benin monarchy back to it's useless glory (human sacrifices), they are giving a mere man that sleeps with numerous women and uses the toilet power over life and death. Such rubbish can never happen in any sane society.

Oba my foot, he's just a mere guy that's hustling just like everyone.

The Obas of Benin were said to have sold over 200,000 people as slaves to Portugal, they exemplified slavery to the core, they weakened all their surrounding neighbors except the Igbos obviously, I wonder what's so special about an irrelevant stool in 2022 that would warrant them being unable to face accusations and be punished for crimes against humanity.

In Benin tradition, the Oba never bows before any human because he's a living god, but he bowed before a woman here and heaven nor fall , shows we're all bloody humans afterall

This is the animal who calls himself the biafran jew. Senseless anarchist.

Ghostwon6511:

Man stop your impersonation, and your "scoop", and your weird and unsubstantiated claims which you want me to believe because you also have an other claim of being of royal blood... Man calm down with the claims and claims and justification of claims by other claims, none of what you say is substantiated. Just claims that anybody can make.

You are such a fraud. My mother's uncle Enogie Udobor was buried around ten years ago, there was no human sacrifice involved. His son has taken his place on the throne of Ugolo.

You are just a rumour and fraudulent kind of person.

and you're just a smelling pussy and stop mentioning your slave ancestors names, nobody gives a damn about them here. Your whatever you say are slaves, I don't even remember me telling you I'm royalty you are just intimidated because of your low self esteem which a natural trait of slaves. Have a nice time.

Ghostwon6511:

It seems you don't know Europe very well.
You are just one of those blacks who worship the whites. I wish you would just keep your commenting to your own people. My people don't need to pay for your ignorance.

Just mention anywhere in Europe where such demonic cultural practices is still going on? The white man is still ahead of the black man in almost everything if it wasn't for them black africans will still be living in the stone age today they deserves to be celebrated.

PrinceMajestic:
be careful bro, pls that is Oba, Nigeria's number 1 Demon and Master of Craft. His above investigation, except you're completely senseless then you can criticize him

Ur Oba deserve this is truely he is guilty

JOemmy:



Just mention anywhere in Europe where such demonic cultural practices is still going on? The white man is still ahead of the black man in almost everything if it wasn't for them black africans will still be living in the stone age today they deserves to be celebrated.

Ok Mr "alahu-white-people" or is it "white-people-agba" ?
I guess, you are the type who would buy poop coming from white people.
Please punish only your own people with your low self-esteem, leave my people out of your discussions. You are like a cancer, how I wish you and people like you weren't black (I know you do too), because you being black devalues the black race.

I know your type, I don't consider them black and I avoid them more than I avoid white racists. Even the Jews had some people like you during the shoa, they were called kappo. They were helping the Nazis exterminate other jews.

Ghostwon6511:


Ok Mr alahu-white-people.
I guess, you are the type who would buy poop coming from white people.
Please punish only your own people with your low self-esteem, leave my people out of your discussions. You are like a cancer, how I wish you and people like you weren't black (I know you do too), because you being black devalues the black race.

I know your type, I don't consider them black and I avoid them more than I avoid white racists.

The truth is bitter am not in any way trying to drag ur people into my assertions don't even know who they are just saying what is very obvious, if ur culture were really superior the white man wouldn't have defeated and colonized ur ancestors.

JOemmy:


The truth is bitter am not in any way trying to drag ur people into my assertions don't even know who they are just saying what is very obvious, if ur culture were really superior the white man wouldn't have defeated and colonized ur ancestors.

The Greeks had a culture superior to the Romans, yet the Romans defeated and colonised the Greeks.
The Egyptians had a culture superior to that of the Romans, yet the Egyptians were also subdued by the Romans.
England had a superior culture to that of the Vikings, yet England was colonised by the Vikings.
China had a culture superior to that of the Mongols, yet the Mongols colonised China...
Eastern Roman empire had a culture superior to that of the Turks, yet it was colonized by the Turks.

You are only talking out of ignorance and uncle-Tommish low self-esteem.
The thing is people who lack the ability to think like you do never seem to understand they don't reason properly and often believe themselves to be of superior intelligence. You over here, you are confusing your low self-esteem and worshipping of white people with intelligence and civilization and culture.

deluckiest:
Hmmn!
The people of bini love and cherish their king dearly, if the reverse is the case for your own, how is that the fault of the bini people or the Oba?
No serious minded persons take saharareporters serious?
Saharareporters is known to show bias reportage. Because of the one-sided news you are hurling insults on the Oba without waiting to state their own version of the story. Mind you I am not in support of slavery in whatever guise. Stop insulting the king, since you find it hard to insult your own father.

how is it slavery when the boys parents voluntarily gave him up(as is the practice) for service in the palace.

itsene:


This is the animal who calls himself the biafran jew. Senseless anarchist.

I'm an atheist, never been a Jew nor practiced Judaism.

PrinceMajestic:
ok I hear but the truth is that, I swear on my fathers if Oba die today and I present myself for sacrifice I will be outrightly rejected but for you, if you nor waka well that kind period your head go follow smoothly. Stupid commoner from slave lineage, Common FADE

stop spreading misinformation, human sacrifice is no longer practised in Benin kingdom.

TheOgaBoss:
how is it slavery when the boys parents voluntarily gave him up(as is the practice) for service in the palace.

Don't mind these guys, they are just on a hatefilled rampage, they gave up on logics long ago. When I was a kid, if the Oba had proposed this role to me, I would have jumped on it immediately, my parents would have been very happy and proud, I would have become a sort of star immediately. The honour to serve the Oba is second to none.
But the lynch mob over here and their anti-Edo hatred and jealousy must vent their hanger against Benin for being too great.

HilcomTech:


Tunda faya you and Ur phuulish oba.

Who is this clown threatening
We refused to be warned do your worst

Comrade go na , we de hail you from back , you have my moral support

Bundaweber:



hmm!!! i just dey look sahara reporters dey laugh. them no no anything.

comrade don't spoil the show lets observe , abi you no know watin UN obverse r be ?

PrinceMajestic:
shut up, Bini is the real n traditional word, whites spelt it to Benin, slave boy, commoner you will never learn. People like you are the reason I hate commoners

binis refers to the language while Benin refers to the city itself.

ransomed:


Park well, Omo noba is a slave master.
Can he allow his wayward son to be amadan?
Overrated, archaic fellow.

no hide for back come test your metal , you go know watin power be

TheOgaBoss:
binis refers to the language while Benin refers to the city itself.

The language is called Edo, not Bini. The capital of the empire is called Benin city and the empire is called Benin kingdom or Benin empire.

PrinceMajestic:
but you don't expect a king to move alone, he came to earth with servants and he lives thesame way. It's just that simple, it can't change, governments are aware. Not only Edo culture though but including the real traditional stools Benin throne birthed

U are truly a slave Tueh for ur empty brain

francisbiz:

Is detaining a kid with hardened criminals a way of curbing excesses?
He is above 18, if doesn't want to serve in the palace he should be allowed to go, slavery is outlawed.

The boy could be stubborn and guilty of juvenile delinquencies though, because his story of oppression working 6am to 12am 365 days does not add up with the aspect that he even has a girlfriend checking on him at the prison. His story may not be reliable.

But the palace should not oppress him and his parents, if he is not happy in the palace, let him go and let his parents be.

funny enough it's the parents who resolve to send them there , I understand your plight and there's a penalty for such reversals ,maybe thats where the land issues arose from , I pray the case is properly investigated and the boy exonerated if not guilty

tito44:


You and the oba are fóóls

you are right

Blue3k:


How does the palace have the power to seize your property? Why would they take they take their property when they have nothing to do with it. Lol will they also punish their grand children and great grand children like north Korea? This story is so weird lets hope S.R covers the court case extensively.

They only seized the property so that the parents will not sell it and bring their son out, the king or palace know what they are doing

Ghostwon6511:

The language is called Edo, not Bini. The capital of the empire is called Benin city and the empire is called Benin kingdom or Benin empire.

Edo is a linguistic category or class which refers not just only to Bini language but to all the edoid languages which has close cultural affinity to Benin empire.

CSTRR:
The police should visit the palace and respectfully clarify the situation.

To be honest, just 200 years ago, and the oba would have been unquestionable.

The bini people are his subjects and he can do whatever he wants with them.

The Paramount king of Lagos, a subject of the bini stool, committed suicide when the oba of bini commanded him to.

How much more a mere peasant?

But those days are gone now, and the bini people are now subject to the Constitution of the Federal republic.

Please can you put things in better perspectives and not suggest that his subject in Lagos then was ruling Lagos state or is a pure Yoruba blood
Who you called the Oba of Lagos then was one of his subjects and not Oba of Lagos.

Btw, the landowners who own the lands then and even in present day Lagos Central remain the Idejos who are 100% Yoruba. No native Lagos land belongs to those from Bini let alone the Oba of Bini.

habakukjss3:


You have been cooked too into modern slavery
Imagine how they brain washed an educated adult like you into believing this shit/hoax

What are the proofs of your claim?
Be wise . This is modern time

Royalty will always have flimsy reasons to get hold of slaves.


Nomater the heights of exccesses or stubbornness of a well-to-do man, his son can never be taken as a sword boy.
Only boys from poor background suffers this fate.

you are right ,but please go and petition the emperor of benin , in short take him to the world court , your tea is ready

Collins4u1:




May you never happen to anyone. Breeders of bad society

you are right

TheOgaBoss:
Edo is a linguistic category or class which refers not just only to Bini language but to all the edoid languages which has close cultural affinity to Benin empire.

Man, we call our language Edo.
The definition which you have just repeated could be categorised as a linguistic work, not binding on our costoms and what the reality is on the ground. Linguist can categorise us as they wish, that doesn't mean we will immigrate the linguists and change our costoms to meet with the theory of the linguists.
Our Edo language has several variants just like any language out there, it is not us who started naming the variants and calling one "Bini" that is an outside work, all our languages are called Edo and all our people of Benin empire are called Edo, that is our costum which is not defined by a linguist mor by a dictionary.

PrinceMajestic:
Hey hey hey! Media should take a chill pill o. Oba is not who you criticize, I'm advising people here who I see as family, no matter what please don't type abusive word about Oba of Benin, his far more than a monarch please, I love you guys but respect the occupant of our Father Throne. Media can beg him to spare the boy not abuse him

Oba na useless man. BENIN people are the most stupid people on earth . How on earth will you allow a stranger from Ife to your land , terrorizing your family and people and using your children for sacrifice? Benin people mumu no be small