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How Issele-Uku Kingdom United the Ogboli Families of Anioma in a Conference, Issues a Communique

 How Issele-Uku Kingdom United the Ogboli Families of Anioma in a Conference, Issues a Communique 


- Emeka Esogbue


The Anioma people are becoming more socially united as Ogboli Quarters in Anioma communities met recently in Issele-Uku and were hosted by Diokpa Okonkwo Nduka Nwajei, the Onishe of Issele-Uku and Okpalabisi of Ogboli Quarters. 


The Ogboli people in the Anioma communities of Issele-Uku, Ibusa,  Illah, Obior, Ogwashi-Uku, Akwukwu-Igbo, and Atuma Iga all came together to chart a socio-cultural course that will advance their well-being. 


After the meeting in which a communique was issued on the way forward for the Nshi (Nri) migrants, they promised to unite more among themselves and also unite more with their kit and kin from the present Anambra State. 


The Ogboli are migrants from Nishi (Nri Kingdom) in Anambra State. They are all related. Legends of these various communities show this relationship. 


Edini (of Ibusa) and Adaigbo (of Ogwashi-Uku) were siblings who arrived in their present communities to settle there in a single wave of primary movement. This is according to the Ibusa and Ogwashi-Uku legends. 


Adaigbo and Okolie Agu (Akwukwu-Igbo) were siblings and they bought and arrived at their present homesteads at the same time. This is according to the Akwukwu-Igbo legend which also holds Okolie Agu to be the younger sibling. However, by critical studies and analysis, Isichei, Mordi & Opone and Esogbue (this author) have all suggested in their documentation that Edini, Adaigbo, and Okolie Agu, might have left their Nishi (Nri) original home together with Adaigbo as the eldest. By ancestry,  Ogwasi-Uku, therefore remains the senior of the settlements. 


In Issele-Uku, the Ogboli were the original settlers as agreed by Akeh-Osu and Azomani in their works of history. 


The conference has come and gone but Leonard Azomani, clergy, author, and lawyer believes that it will make a learning experience for all. 


Indeed, the Ogboli ancestry is a kinship that binds Issele-Uku, Ibusa, Ogwashi-Uku, Akwukwu-Igbo, Atuma Iga, Obior, and Illah as people that share relationships.

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