Elders of Uhunmwoke Orhuma Ewuare Community at Kilometer 13, Benin Sapele Road By-pass, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State have rejected threat by one of the suspended Enigie (Benin Dukes) who rebelled against Benin monarchy and their cohorts to deny them their own autonomy.
The baseless argument, according to the Odionwere of Uhunmwoke Orhuma Ewuare Community, Pa. Ogieva Edomwonyi, seeks to erode their age-long rich cultural identity, including natural boundaries and history that began during the territorial conquest of Oba Ewuare, the first, Centuries in Benin.
Briefing journalists in Benin City, the Community leader who gave a brief historical account of how Oba Ewuare, the first, personally had an encounter with the Uhunmwoke Orhuma Ewuare Community, dismissed threats by shortsighted individuals behind the false narratives about the peaceful Community.
Edomwonyi, whose view was also corroborated by another elder in the Community, Pa. Sunny Omoregie Iyoha, also paid tribute to Oba the Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Ewuare the second whose royal intervention in response to the Community elders’ request in May 2017, warded-off the premature death plagues — associated with Odionwere position, a development that has brought them longevity.
Also speaking in an interview, a high-ranking elder from the Uhunmwoke Orhuma Ewuare, Pa. Oghogho Oteleku, clarified that “the community exists as autonomous status, with her Elders Chamber known as Ogua’edion” in Edo Language connotation; “therefore, attempt by any group or an individual to re-write our own history, will not stand”, while pledging their loyalty to Governor Monday Okpebholo and Oba Ewuare, the second.
