>>WHEN WILL EVBIOBE TAKE ITS STAND IN THE GOVERNMENT OF ORA AS USED TO BE IN THE PAST

1. I know full well that I am writing this article under criticism; but that will not disturb the truth that has long been set aside owing to self seeking position in the history of Ora. I need not go into the very history itself, but you will only permit me to have a slight touch of it in order to bring you home fully on how Ora was governed in the time past.

2. There was no dispute whatever between our forefathers in the Government of Ora. Every village in Ora knew its place in the team work of the government. There had never been a time when the elders of Ohia took a leading part in the running of the government in Ora. All I know is that Ohia and Evbiobe were inseparable unit in the management of Ora. To be truthful, Ohia never governed Ora. The fact that leads to the present confusion is the claim of right of birth by Ohia to rule Ora; a thing which had never happened. Naturally, we know Ohia stands first in the right of birth, but the power of ruling Ora was not given to her, perhaps, because of its littleness or other historical reasons, one of which is, she was ruled out of her right by her father owing to her misbehaviour with her wife.

3. Before the intelligent Report of Ora, there was a consistent government in the whole country. The confusion of government came in when the reports were made. The intelligent report officer lost the sight of the dispute between Evbiobe and other Ora villages in compiling up his reports, and therefore weighed the evidences against Evbiobe. But the material facts shown and found at Evbiobe should have weighed heavily against his judgement in believing that Evbiobe rules Ora. Eguarhelu is the national council where all matters affecting the whole Ora are debated and settled finally. The President of that council is always the head of that house, that is, the Odiurhukpa of Evbiobe. It had never been recorded in the history of Ora that Odiurhukpa of Ohia sat in that council hall as the President or the head of that house.

4. Let me take Eguarhakpen for example, when Oras come to that hall, though Ohia stands first in the right of birth, yet Ohia would not sit as the President of that hall, Odiurkhukpa of Ovbiokhanrin takes lead as the President. This is natural to our costume. It is no use for us to begin now to change the fact of the history. All we have to do is to accept this naturally as was done in the past.

5. Lest it is too late. Before things grow worse I should advise that commission of enquiry be asked for to revise the Intelligent Reports of Ora, as there are at moment men of long experience, such as, Uduiguomo and Ikhile, who I am sure, will give true evidence of how Ora was governed in the past. Nobody denied the right of birth of Ohia, but that did not give them the clue of the right to run the government of Ora.

6. I think I should be allowed to interfere a bit to probe into the question of the Federal Conference of Ora and its surbs. When there was a conference between Ora Proper and its suburbs, that is, Iulaha, Emai, Otuo and so on, why representative from Ora would take the chair as the President. No matter how junior that man was among them. This was natural order of things which existed in the costume.