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By Gidigba Group
We have asked our market women, through the traditional Iye-Eki, Madam Blacky Ogiamien, not to pay any form of levies, rates or tax to Pst. Josephine Ibhaguezejele—she is an impostor, rejected by the Benins and the entire Benin market community.
Our market women will also not be engaging in any exercise with the "Otagbogbo Iyaloja".
We have also commenced a mass mobilization of our people, including the entirety of market women, to publically reject and denounce the "Otagbogbo Iyaloja" on the streets of Benin and markets.
The position of Iye-Eki is a cultural entity of the Benins and not an instrument for political compensation—we are aware that some women paid as high as ₦1.5M to emerge market leaders, we are chasing them away—a vast majority of these women do not own shops in any of the Benin markets, they are political hangers-on desperate to extort genuine Benin market women.
To have lied before the Omo n'Oba, disobeyed his counsel, and flout his rejection of "Iyaloja"—alien to the Benin culture, is the greatest insurrection against the Benin ethnic nationality.
Whereas the embarrassment caused by this singular act to the Benins and by extension, Edo State, will remain in our historical tabloids for centuries, Pst. Josephine "Otagbogbo" Ibhaguezejele, cannot function politically or culturally in markets in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
Iye-Eki is cultural, not political, traditional, not debatable, it marks an offshoot of the Oba of Benin, exclusively preserved for a traditional Benin woman—from past Iy’Ikhueki such as Madam Ologbosere, Madam Comfort Aiwerioghene, Madam Grace Emovon, Madam Amalawa Edebiri, Madam Janet Omozuwa, Madam Esther Edokpayi, and the current, Madam Blacky Ogiamien—all nominated by market women, and brought before His Royal Majesty, for spiritual validation.
Okpebholo is too small a mortal, to alter our age-long culture and tradition that has kept the Benins together for centuries, all for his political gluttony—if we could survive the 1897 invasion of the Benin Empire, by the British expeditionists, Okpebholo's "Iyaloja" is nothing but a pinch of salt; however, we do not take it lightly.
We urge the governor to immediately rescind, annul, and declare null and void, the sham, codenamed "inauguration", that was carried out under his supervision in the Edo State government house where Okpebholo is landlord, as we set to stage an earthmoving protestation against the governor's attempt to ridicule and disparage our culture and of cause, the revered Benin Monarch.
We rise.
Oba gha t'kpere, ise.
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