Skip to main content

Adavi Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

By Alh. Ahmed Adoke

As inevitable facts of life dictates, the past makes the present, the present makes the future.

The ignoble present of the Adavi Local Government Area has compelled me to ask of glorious yester years of Adavi Local Government people right from the time when the entire Kogi Central Senatorial District is addressed as Igbirra Native Authority comprising Okehi and Okene districts respectively.

Late Alh. Ibrahim Onoruoiyiza Atta
Who made Ebira thick then? The leadership of Igbirra Native Authority (ITU) under the colonial masters is not complete without the emphatic mention of the Atta of Igbirraland, His Royal Highness Alh. Ibrahim Onoruoiyiza Atta who hails from Adavi District of Ebiraland. His father, Late Adayi Otaru Kuroko, Opisa – the wealthy of his time and the mother Oyi-Ayi Iya-ebe a well traveled woman, daughter of Atta Omadivi, a wise brave visionary hails from Agada clan of Okene District of Ebiraland.

Without going into historical volumes of the past, the parental combination of late Ohinoyi of Ebirland, Atta Ibrahim Onoruoyiza is of dual sound wise family.

When eventually the need to create more Local Government from the then Igbirra Native Authority arose, the late Ohinoyi of Ebira, Alh. Sanni Omolori and Kokori Abdul of blessed memory, vehemently opposed the idea in line with their self serving wisdom which has become folly today.

They kicked against the well focused and patriotic move that was championed late J.A.G Ohiani. Eventually, Okehi Local Government was carved out of Okene and was first chaired by late J.A.G Ohiani. Ohiani is from Adavi District of Ebiraland and performed credibly well and better than any of his equals in the then Kwara State.

Historical records have shown how Adavi indigenes have excelled in all sphere of life but alas, what has become of us that we are physically more backward in terms of education, socio-economic and infrastructural development in Ebiraland today?

The crop of leadership we have after Alh. Adamu Atta, former Governor of Kwara State and a philanthropist of no equal, took the stage with all immoral manners, that tends to retard Adavi L.G.A.

What you sow, you reap. The present leadership in Adavi L.G.A. does not see anything wrong at overloading the workforce strength of the LGA as long as their children, wives, concubines that constitute the bulk of the unproductive staff are paid and the monthly unholy returns are constantly from any sitting Chairman of the LGA.

Adavi LGA has more worker than other LGs with larger population under the guise of satisfying god-fathers and the over bloated workforce has forced the LGA to owe salaries of up to 6 months as at the time of writing this article (10/6/2011).

No leader of any sort can raise eye brow in sympathy of the workers because they have soiled their hands with the present Chairman, Hon Raji Owuda Ahmed. When the LG Chairman was suspended twice, the Adavi LG leadership including the traditional rulers were covertly canvassing for the retention of Raji Owuda Ahmed because of the subterranean unholy deals between them.

The present Adavi LG Chairman will have a lot of tales to tell if he goes off the EFCC hook. Who among the leadership in Adavi LG that have not benefited from the patronage of unexecuted contracts from the Local Government Chairman? If EFCC has to justly carry out professional investigation and prosecute accordingly, who among the Adavi political leaders is free?

With glorious past and present mess, what holds for Adavi tomorrow? The Local Government chairmanship and councillorship is knocking at the doors. What manners of councilors and chairman will Adavi choose this time around in view of the present mess caused the immediate past administration with 4 – 5 month salary burden? The injection of youthful leadership into Adavi LG politics, I expect a new direction devoid of the dictates from our past leaders who have placed Adavi at this ignoble condition.

I am appealing to the good conscience of Adavi political leaders to look before they leap in terms of the kind of councilors and chairman they present for election into the Adavi LG council in the next Local Government elections.

Alh. Ahmed Adoke

Patron, Righteous On-lookers Association,

Km. 8, Okene – Lokoja Road, Adavi L.G.A.,

Tel: 08033498951

Comments

  1. the day we r waiting 4 hs come. Who will join us to celebrate EBIRA DAY IN UNIJOS which will take plc on 9 july.

    ReplyDelete
  2. IT WAS OBVIOUS,HOW FERVENTLY YOU DDICATED YOU RESOURCEFUL TIME TO MAKE POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO REVAMP THE ENTIRE EBIRELAND.ALLAH WILL BLESS YOU AND PROVIDE MORE OF YOUR LIKES TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Please include your name in your comments.
Thanks.

Popular posts from this blog

Ebira Names and their meaning, Names, Meanings, Sex

Asimi: If mankind will allow me the survival of this child. F Ajimituhuo: Spare me today till tomorrow, which day metaphorically continues till eternity (since tomorrow has no end). M Avidime: The initiator who work is subsequently perfected by those following him in life. M Asipita: A child of History. M Amewuru: The harbinger of confusion, or the man who causes chaos. M Adeku: Father of masquerade. M Adabara: Father of the  compound. M Adajinege: The tallest of them. M Adavize: Father is wealth. M Adeiza: Father of fortune/gift/kindness. M Adomuha: Father of able body man. M Adooro: The one that is a stumbling block Ahovi: A chief custodian of the traditional Oracle. M Aduvo: Father of hand. M Ajooze: The one standing on the way. M Adinoyi: The father of the multitude who serves as a protective umbrella shielding others in need of such protection. M Adaviruku: Name usually given to the heir of the family. M Ajinomo: In memory of Ebira war with the Fukanis where Ebi

The case of Ahmed Awela, Murtala (Eti Bobo) among other Ebira youths

Ismail M. Kabir, Lagos. Between controversial existence and a contentious exit. There are various sides to a story. For an event that happens with few or no significant eye witness, the news come in different versions; some partially correct, others completely cooked up. In some cases, such non-witnessed event pass round as rumour until eventually confirmed. Rumour it was, when a phone call from Okene announced the death of two famous Ebira youths! They were killed by the Police, reported the news. Being on a Sunday when nothing too special should ensue save for the usual church services and social functions, the news sounded as the most unexpected, as a matter of fact, incredible! The thought of losing such youths on an ordinary day like Sunday undoubtedly was the reason for the astonishment. Not a single person of Ebira origin, within or outside the soil would believe such shocker upon first hearing. Text messages, phone calls and of course physical enquiries lingered, all in an atte

The Obege legend

In the earliest generations when the art of magic was yet a myth to the people, there was born a boy into a family of hunters in the village of Eika - one of the six communities that comprised the ancestral groups. He was believed to have been born with a leaf in his hand and to the elders of then, that was prognostic of what he would be - a native healer. And had grown up performing wonders. His kinsmen were all hunters, they would deny the boy the opportunity to follow them hunting, purely on age ground - and he was really too young to go hunting in the forest. They would leave him in the house with the women as they set out on their hunting expedition. But they had meet the young Obege in the forest roasting a fair member of the forest’s game, all alone - and unarmed! The elders had to defer to this wonderful boy. Obege as an adult was more than human. His fame had spread all over the land: he was a healer of most seemingly incurable diseases, he was a rain maker, assumed more divin