Nebu nnaa,
We did not know Debe existed
until Ikemba's passing.
Indeed at that time Debe or
Sylvester got really busy going to different press houses, announcing his is
the first living son of Ikemba.
The whole thing became
ridiculous to some of us. I asked then, if he is the first living son of
Ikemba, was there a first dead son? I mean, at a point I could not take it. I
recall one Anambara chap, a friend along we all wondered who this Debe was.
The guy blurted out....ma anyi amaro onye obu....but we don't know him. Which
was absolutely correct. It was strange to us.
You could see the man was up
to something, whatever it was. Trouble was brewing, and he was readying
himself, putting himself in position to battle to win and to gain. Yes, while
Debe was making rounds announcing himself, virtually from the outside, those
of them in the inside, girded their loins, else this man from the outside
comes and grabs everything.
Nebu, I am with you as far as owning your child whenever she/he
comes in.
Folks, around NYC, I gat my
eyes and ears open, but if anyone of you hear about a lady, see a lady who as
much as hints her father is a Nigerian, please inquire deeper; if she was born
in the early 80s, inquire deeper yet, make the announcement here of your
finding. She may well be my daughter, and I want her now!So that is the way it
ought to be. Take in your child, even if your wife is the devilish kind.
She/he is your child, she/he comes first.
Do you know some bloody women come into a man's house and asks
the man - "me and your children, who comes first?' That is the last day the
bloody devil woman sees the inside of my house. Nne ya anwuo. Idiot. Imagine
that. I do not know about other women, but Igbo women ask such questions of
men with children that interested in them. It is crazy. Madness.
I have a cousin who
impregnated her sister in-law in 1960 or thereabouts in PH. This boy was
a replica of my cousin, but the man feigned total ignorance of the boy, until
just about 5 years ago. I held it against my cousin, and stated as much every
opportunity I had.
I mean, this my cousin left
for England leaving the boy behind through out the war, came back, married,
had children with his present wife and really took his precious time to take
this boy in in his 50s. Painful. Yet we were pleased somewhat that he fessed
up to his responsibility, but is there making up for the boy all the years he
wandered about fatherless? It is a sin to abandon a child.
But Nebu, as you insist,
nothing Ikemba did alive or dead will minimize him. Ikemba was a thinking man,
always. He could not have done a thing without thinking about it. Problem, is,
in Anambara, property is king. Old saying which holds sway to date is....nna boy anwulugo....orapulu prot
onne? It is all about property, unlike what you and I are in our part
of Igbo land.
Love and lust for property
equates Anambara to Yoruba. A dear friend of mine, a Lagosian, died in Lagos,
traveling back and forth battling his siblings over his papa property. He had
just had major heart surgery, he was not totally healed, and he took off to
Nigeria to see his lawyers. Do not travel, I warned my friend. Barely days
after his arrival in Nigeria, I got the news that he did not get up where he
sat. He had just turned only 50.
People battle over property
forgetting they may soon be gone, and property they will see no more. Ikemba
is gone, the living may meelaa onwe ha....Ikemba is no more here. It is up to
the living to respect themselves. Ikemba is no more with us, he left behind
all dues he paid for us Igbo. That is it. Nothing minimizes the
man.
Ikemba paid all of his dues
for himself and for a race. Igbo race. Nothing else matters.
Ogbuonyeiro
Wharf,
I did not even know that you wrote the piece to which I responded --
it did neither bear the author's email address nor was signed. I take matters
of this nature seriously because bringing a human being into this world and
shaming the person through rejection or abandonment constitutes a violation of
human right in my book. Now, be also serious as I go over some
of your points.
- Here are the facts. Ikemba ndi Nnewi did not accept Debe as his son
while he was alive. (The Snake)
The above is not a fact but if you insist that it is, cite me just one
instance of Ikemba or Nnewi people having rejected Debe. Here is what Debe
narrated and which no one has contradicted. (i) His grandmother, Ikemba's
mother, gave him a piece of land in Nnewi. (ii) When Ikemba died, he, not
Junior, not Bianca, or anyone else informed the people of Nnewi that his
father was dead. (iii) With respect to Ikemba's death, Nnewi people dealt with
him solely until Bianca and Peter Obi used the instrument of the government to
remove him from all official participation in Ikemba's funeral and burial.
(iv) If Igbo was still the Igbo of my grandfather's, such an abomination would
never have been allowed stand.
The above are facts that can be googled within seconds and they
contradict your claim in excerpt above.
- In fact you, an igbo man, should know that every community initiates
children into community meetings when they come of age. In the case of Debe,
the community told Ojukwu to produce Debe so he can be initiated. That
request infuriated the Ikemba because he thought they overstepped their
boundary because he had never told anyone that Debe was his son. (The
Snake)
Again, what you said above, if true, projects Ojukwu in bad light. A
child is initiated into the village upon birth by the women of the community
who sing and dance and are catered to. A male child joins all stages
appropriate to his age but once an adult, he joins his age
grade. But if a male child is born out of wedlock and raised outside of
his father's village, what you said above applies. In that instance, the
father of the child is not at liberty to react as you claimed that Ojukwu
reacted. Only disreputable men deny their children.
Based on what is in the public domain, Ojukwu had never denied Debe until
after his last marriage. Again, Debe used to visit him in Ivory Coast and
Ojukwu kept tab on his progress while in exile. By Igbo culture and by
decency, Ojukwu was supposed to inform his people that Debe was his son when
his folks inquired, not get upset. In the Igbo of my grandfather, the people
would have insisted on getting their answer or they would ostracize
him. A child belongs to the village and if a male child is born out of
wedlock, the father is not insulated from introducing the child to the village
-- it's not a choice of his, it's a must because a child did not bring himself
into this world -- unless the father is making an emphatic denial of fathering
the child. Ojukwu could not suddenly make such an emphatic denial of
Debe if he had been relating to him from childhood, the villagers would
not accept but such denial without concrete evidence from him.
- When Ikemba died and Debe was making all that noise about been the first
son one of the people he said supported his claim was his step-mother,
Bianca. (The Snake)
I did not read Debe say that.
What he said was that he and Bianca used to have a cordial
relationship until not too long before Ikemba died.
- Yes I do know that some Igbo
women can be uncharitable with step-children and other people's children,
but it is of course not all Igbo women. Before we fry Bianca, we should be
sure she is one of those types. (The Snake).
Now you are playing games. Nine
out of ten Igbo women use all means possible to put their children ahead
if their step children or other women's children. That is a peculiarity that
warrants a generalization of such conduct within Igbo womanhood. I am not
condemning it because nature made them that way and that must be why we, their
children, are daring and proud -- our mothers having put us above all
others.
With respect to Bianca, you are
an educated man and must not feign ignorance of pointers. Debe has
claimed that she came between him and his father. Junior has made a similar
claim and was recently accused by Bianca of throwing her and her children out
of the Ojukwu family's home in Nnewi. An Ojukwu's daughter was said to
have not been on speaking terms with the Ikemba for over a decade because
of Bianca. You cannot ignore all these pointers to give Bianca the clean
slate you gave her without losing your credibility and intellectual
seriousness.
- From everything I have read,
Debe was hired by Ojukwu transport. He worked for the family's business
which is an independent corporation and that was the entire
relationship (The Snake).
If that was all that you read,
then you did not read all that was written. He was a lawyer who was in the
police (he cited one of the retired police IGs as his peer, to illustrate how
far he could have gone in the police had he not left). His father, Ikemba,
summoned him to take up managing some of the properties released to the
family (not OTL, if am not mistaking). He made the blunder of not getting
a retainer signed because it was family matter. Ikemba asked him to managed
them because he is a lawyer and a family member -- there was no point hiring
an outside lawyer when the family has a lawyer. You can see that you are
wrong in restricting his relation to the family to property management
only.
- You wrote that Ojukwu's children supported Debe: If they did why was
Junior disputing Opara with him? Isn't Junior one of Ojukwu's children? (The
Snake).
I did not write something like that but if I gave you any impression that
such was what I meant, let me clarify myself. I said that Debe has stated that
his siblings have always recognized him as their elder brother. That does not
automatically mean that they are supporting his law suit against OTL or his
feud with Bianca. I am not aware that he and Junior are disputing Oparahood.
Both of them agree that the Will was fraudulent but Junior, instead of being a
man in fighting the Will as he publicly threatened, meekly accepted it
through his acquiescence. By accepting the Will that he conceded was forged,
he fraudulently usurped the Oparahood since the Will accorded him as
such.
Based on what is available about Junior, I do no doubt that he is
weak and slow, so it suits a conniving Bianca to have him
as Ikemba's opara (first son). Debe is as fearless and as
intellectual sharp as Ikemba and for that, he is a threat to Bianca's having
her children being preeminent Ojukwu's heirs -- Junior does not pose such
a threat.
It was up to Ojukwu, not Debe, to demand a DNA test; Debe could not force
it if Ojukwu did not want one. You write as if he showed up out of nowhere and
claimed to be Ojukwu's son. His mother and Ojukwu had a sexual
relationship at the time he could have been conceived. It could not be a
coincident that a woman Ojukwu slept with bore a child who looks and acts like
Ojukwu and whose age matches when that sexual encountered could result in
a pregnancy. He had been Ojukwu's son long before Bianca knew of Ojukwu. Have
you seen anyone, including Bianca, come out and contradict any of his claims,
especially with respect to being Ojukwu's son? Has Ojukwu's Biafran ADC, who
became one of his trusted aides after Biafra, not come out and supported
Debe's claims?
So my dear brother, do not simplify or make light of this matter. If a
young man shows up at my door and claims that his mother told him that I
am his father, I will not play around it. If I slept with his mother at the
time he could have been conceived, whether he looks like me or not, I am doing
a DNA test. If he is my son and is older than my son to my wife, I will accord
him his natural right of being my first son. That is what any decent man will
do. Those of you who are projecting Ojukwu as having rejected his first son
are demeaning Ojukwu without even knowing that's what you are doing. If
he willfully and consciously denied his son, he ceases to be my hero. I can
bet you that lots of Igbos will do similarly.
Take care.
Nebukadineze Adiele
Reject Religion; Revive Reasoning!
Nebu
Facts are facts and I don't like to play around with them in serious
matter.
Here are the facts. Ikemba ndi Nnewi did not accept Debe as his son
while he was alive. That is a fact. In fact you, an igbo man, should know
that every community initiates children into community meetings when they
come of age. In the case of Debe, the community told Ojukwu to produce Debe
so he can be initiated. That request infuriated the Ikemba because he
thought they overstepped their boundary because he had never told anyone
that Debe was his son.
When Ikemba died and Debe was making all that noise about been the
first son one of the people he said supported his claim was his step-mother,
Bianca. Yes I do know that some Igbo women can be uncharitable with
step-children and other people's children, but it is of course not all Igbo
women. Before we fry Bianca, we should be sure she is one of those
types.
I don't see how my query diminishes the Ikemba. From everything I have
read, Debe was hired by Ojukwu transport. He worked for the family's
business which is an independent corporation and that was the entire
relationship.
You wrote that Ojukwu's children supported Debe: If they did why was
Junior disputing Opara with him? Isn't Junior one of Ojukwu's
children?
Finally if looks and intonation determines paternity the great Snake
would have 200 children today out there. Do you know how many times poeple
have thought I looked like someone from their past? Nebu there is science
and there is a test to determine paternity. If Debe is serious he should go
ahead and take that test and stop dribbling people. I am not interested in
looks and manner of speaking. I am interested in science and scientific
findings.
Concluding no one can say what the Ikemba told Debe and as a mannered
man, the Ikemba not wanting to bring shame to the young man might have
warned him off in life only for the young to run out on his death to wax
lies. Once again if Debe is Ikemba's son he can prove it without much saliva
wasted by doing a DNA test.
By the way if my paternity is in doubt I will do the DNA test
too.
WS - A revered prince of Mushin.
Sent from my iPad
Where did you get this bizarre idea that Debe being Ojukwu's son is
even doubtful, not to talk of Ojukwu never having accepted him as his son?
I have watched Debe speak and nobody but a different version of
Odumegwu Ojukwu speaks through him. He looks like Ojukwu and those who
knew of him as a child (like Gowon) have testified that he is Ojukwu's
son.
Debe has chronicled his relationship with his father, his
relationship with his grandmother (Ojukwu's mother), and his relationship
with the people of Ojukwu's village in Nnewi, and how he periodically
traveled to Ivory Coast to visit his father when he was in
exile. Equally, he has indicated that Emeka II and his siblings
accord him his position as their brother. But for the will, which Ojukwu
could have framed under duress or under an infirm mind, I do not
see how any sensible person can discard all these overwhelming factors to
question that Debe is a son of Ojukwu's.
Debe has indicated that his relationship with his father began to
sour after the Ikemba married Bianca. Other children of Ojukwu's have said
similarly and knowing Igbo women's devious territoriality and disdain
for step children, especially smart step children, no sensible person
should doubt this claim. In putting her brood on the pinnacle of
Ojukwu's scions, I will not doubt that Bianca caused a rift between Ojukwu
and his other children, especially Debe Ojukwu who is a powerful character
in contrast to the languid Junior.
People should be careful with their utterances. It is boorish of
anyone, other than Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, to ask Debe for a DNA
test. If you can ask him for a DNA test to prove that he is Ojukwu's son,
then he or anyone can ask you for a DNA test to prove that you are your
father's son.
I have said this before and I will repeat it now. For not mentioning
Debe in his will, I am giving the Ikemba the benefit of the doubt --
that the will was manipulated by Bianca. But if there is a conclusive
evidence that Ojukwu willfully and in clear mind disowned his first
son, he ceases to be my hero from that moment. I cannot respect any
person who will do something that cruel to another human being whom he
brought into this world.
Before repeating this denial of Debe as Ojukwu's
son, you should be cognizant of how negatively it portrays the
Ikemba. If he doubted that Debe was his son, he had a whole lifetime to
clarify it. Igbo culture expected that of him and if he consciously
failed to live up to that expectation, one of its consequences is
that he (Ojukwu) becomes diminished in Igbo land. This is what some of
you, including those who allegedly altered his will, do not put into
consideration before making your wild utterances. This type of
statement is as demeaning of Ojukwu as the statements of those who ask
Bianca for DNA test to prove that her children are Ojukwu's or ask her for
evidence of marriage to Ojukwu.
It amazes me as to how people can wilfully choose the most
negative story to propagate, even though common sense and available facts
impugn such story.
Nebukadineze Adiele
Reject Religion; Revive Reasoning!
Did Ojukwu ever accept Debe as his son?
If not has Debe done the DNA test as the world requested of
him?
Until then let's be careful with Debe as Ikemba's son.
Sent
from my iPhone
Folks, this is nothing but an amalgamation of fictions
and lies to suit one's curiosity. The article fails to chronicle
the birth of Ali Bongo and relate it to the presence of Ikemba in
Gabon. Ojukwu fled to Ivory Coast in the early 70s and could
only have visited Gabon between 1968 through 1970. Are we insinuating
that Ali Bongo must have been born and adopted during the Biafran
crises? Absolutely nonsensical, and frivolously unscientific.
Resemblance does not cut it, or prove parental linkage but with
DNA test only. I have met many African Americans here in US, that look
like home folks in Nigeria. Debe Ojukwu has Ikemba's DNA strains, and
we can match these with Ali Bango's to either verify or nullify these
propositions. Amadi (USA/Aruba)
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:26 AM,
Okwukwe Ibiam
<o.i...@gmail.com>
wrote:
There is no resemblance. None. Look at all Ojukwu's children,
they all find a way to look like him. From Debe, ikemba Jnr. , to
the Bianca kids. They all find a way to look alike.
Not so with
this kid. Maybe he was an adopted Igbo secondary to the war, true.
But, Ojukwu's son? Raincheck.
However, I'm intrigued by Patience Nkama. She sounds like a
lady from my neck of the woods. Jookwa-o-o-o
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:26 AM,
Nebukadineze via AfricanWorldForum
<africanw...@googlegroups.com>
wrote:
Folks,
I am a Congolese affairs' buff because of my love for their
music. Once in a while, I surf through web sites that discuss
matters related to Congo. A few minutes ago, I happened onto this
one (see link below). On this topic, some African leaders of
doubtful parentage or ethnicity were profiled and bingo, Ali Bongo
was said to have been sired by the great Ikemba of Nnewi.
I concede that the Gabonese president is a carbon copy
of Debe Ojukwu, Ikemba's first son. Read the scoop below and view
the pictures -- his resemblance to Ojukwu is doubtless. In
the second picture, his image is sandwiched between Ikemba and
Omar Bongo. He has no resemblance to Omar Bongo but he looks
exactly like Debe Ojukwu -- Ikemba's first son.
By the way, Gabon was one of Biafra's benefactors and
thousands of Biafran children were evacuated to Gabon in
order to save them (from dying) of Awo-instituted starvation of
the children of Biafra.
Here is the story and the links are at the bottom:
Gabonese believe that Ali Ben Bongo, ABO for
short, is the adopted child of Omar Bongo and Josephine Nkama, who
become Patience Dabany after her
divorce. Officially, the
former First Lady of Gabon had [gave birth to] the current
president when she was only 15 years old in 1959. But
according to radiotrottoir Ali Bongo [is] Ibo from a Catholic
family of the former province of Nigerian
Biafra. He was adopted by
the Bongos at the request of Jacques Foccart and Maurice Delaunay
then ambassador of France in
Gabon. He would be the son
of Emeka Odjukwu, the leader of Biafra who he looks
like. They have the same
morphology, the same nose, the same cheeks, the same build, the
same type of hair and the same receding
hairline.
Pierre
Péan made revelations in his book "New African affairs: Lies and
looting in Gabon." The
French investigative journalist affirms the proven sterility
Josephine Nkama, talks about fake degrees of Ali Bongo, his
Biafran origins and assassinations he
sponsored. For purposes of
the 2009 presidential elections, Ali had brandished a birth
certificate issued in Libreville by the mayor of a borough that is
his uncle, while in all likelihood, he was born in Brazzaville in
1959.
The opponent Luc Bengone -Nsi had even
appealed to the Constitutional courts for a ruling on the
legitimacy of the nomination of Ali, whose origins are
dubious. Like Joseph
Kabila, Ali Bongo is regarded as an impostor by much of the
population that challenges his Gabonite.
The revelations on this web site are
extraordinary, the most shocking being Kamuzu Banda, the once life
president of Malawi, having been an African American named
Richard Armstrong who impersonated a Malawian Kamuzu Banda, a
student who died in the US after a brief illness
Incredible!
These things are written in French, so
open the web site with Google Chrome (browser) and use its
language translation facility.
Nebukadineze Adiele
Reject
Religion; Revive Reasoning!
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