Did you know your HOME TOWN?
We have a million reason to be PROUDLY ESAN PEOPLE.
By Williams Patrick Prais
(from Iwagbe family)
ewohimi.com was originally created with focus on Ewohimi
but due to lack of properly organize representation of Esanland online ewohimi.com
has published a series of history of
Esanland Towns. We are too great of a
people to take our history for granted. If we forget yesterday how shall we
know our way to the future? We cannot talk of Bini Kingdom without Esan people.
Neither can Esan exist without Bini but Esangbedo. We are all proudly Bini’s- A
great people we shall always be.
Esanland will forever be indebted to Dr.
Christopher G. Okojie and many other writers and teachers. Without the
sacrifice and tireless effort of Dr Christopher Gbekolo you and I will not be
reading the series we’ve published on Esan kingdoms. Grandpa, DR.CHRISTOPHER. G. OKOJIE thank
you.
In this series you will be
able to access the history of Esan kingdoms of
Irrua, Ekpoma, Uromi, Ubiaja, Egoro, Ekpon, Ewohimi, Emu, Ewatto, Ewossa, Amahor,
Igueben, Idoa, Ohordua, Okhuesan, Oria, Orowa, Opoji, Ogwa, Okalo, Ebelle,
Ewu, Ugboha, Udo, Urhohi, Ojiogba, Ugun, Ugbegun, Ukhun and Ekekhenle. NOTE:
Iruekpen’s history falls within Ekpoma.
Esan people share common
origin, interrelated with common blood. Irrespective of where we come from in
Esanland our blood is the same – like the river of live it flows on beautifully
from one generation to the other. That’s the reason why Esan national leaders
should lobby and work for the common good of Esanland. We are a minority tribe
in Nigeria. More of infrastructural development of entire Esanland will
strengthen our collective existence eradicate ignorant and superstitions.
Although
Esan folks are a minority but we are a VOICE in Nigeria and have
contributed so much to the development of our country. We have a million reason
to be proudly Esan people. For Instance, Anthony
Eronsele Enahoro, a veteran nationalist, journalist and politicians, in
his early 30 was the first Nigeria to demand for independence from the British.
He is a true Esan and Nigeria hero.
Today, we need genuine leaders in our Homes Community and Nations. Leaders who understand sense of purpose not self egoistic individuals who romanticize their ego. I mean men and women who will led from the front, set an examples for others to follows. Those who understand leadership is not self enrichment but on how well we genuinely manage the affairs of people.
Those who steal embezzled public fund are blind
spiritually. Why will you steal common wealth of a nation you won't take to
your grave? Isn’t that foolishness. One day you die and they bury you in a four
foot grave, then what? Corruption and embezzlement is a poverty of the mind
promoted by short sighted vision. One
day the thief shall die and be bury into a four foot square hole and he is remember
no more. A live well lived is one full of many transformations. “The contented man is never poor; the
discontented man, never rich.” American proverb. “A godly life brings huge profits to
people who are content with what they have.” 1 Timothy 6:6-11. Empty we came
empty we go. With nothing we came with nothing we go. It’s better to dance
naked in the street with everybody dancing with you with smiles on their face
than to dance in the public and die and your name becomes a point of reference
of evil and curses. Osanobua forbids.
Though Esanland has raised great national leaders but the effect on Esanland & Edo State development is lest admirable. It has be a miss opportunity. Why should we allow political interest to deny Esanland – a minority of only 700 hundred people in the midst of 170 million people, why? In raising national leaders we do well but we should go beyond that and let development trick down to Esanland. That’s an error the new generation must redress. We cannot live yesterday today and expect a better tomorrow today. Rather, for their tomorrow, we must give our today.
Though Esanland has raised great national leaders but the effect on Esanland & Edo State development is lest admirable. It has be a miss opportunity. Why should we allow political interest to deny Esanland – a minority of only 700 hundred people in the midst of 170 million people, why? In raising national leaders we do well but we should go beyond that and let development trick down to Esanland. That’s an error the new generation must redress. We cannot live yesterday today and expect a better tomorrow today. Rather, for their tomorrow, we must give our today.
For
instance, in the immediate past administration Edo State had an Esan man as
minister of works but Uromi Agbor road is motorist death trap. Yet that road is
the most vital economic link to Federal capital and Northern Nigeria. Why play
with people destiny in the name of politic? “To no
person, no matter how wealthy, should we sell our soul. To no nation, no matter
how powerful, should we mortgage our conscience. To no group, no matter how
influential, should we pawn our thoughts. But we should always reserve to
ourselves and to our posterity the right to know, to think, to hold opinion and
to pursue our own good in our own way without denying or depriving others of
their right to do so. That is our concept of true national freedom.” Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
Adam
Oshiomole has done a Great job of reviving stewardship in Edo State but we need
a greater than Adam Oshiomole who will continue to dance to the will of the
people and take Edo state to a greater height. So never again shall we see
backwardness but progress and continue infrastructural development of Edo state
and Nigeria.
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