HARMONIZING THE HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF THE IKWERRE PEOPLE by Onyeji Nnaji
Note Clearly : The name of the territory housing the inhabitants of the present day Port Hartcourt was originally Igwe Ocha . They were Igbo , according to their oral history told to B.W. Baikie in 1854 and Major A.G. Leonard in 1906. By that time they were not called Ikwerre. It is worthy of note to remind readers that obliteration of the cultural properties of the Ikwerre is taking the Ikwerre history away swiftly. For instance, from Nwoji I, there is a nearby police station as one heads towards Nwoji II; before, the station use to be a court called "Obia court" where strangers were judged in those days. Obia is an Igbo word that means stranger. These places, today. are eroded. More are discussed below. Please, examine the Words on the image below and check the language on It. O ne Big problem that befuddled the entire South Southerners, the said Nigerian Niger Delta population, is the knowledge of their original source. Their lackadaisical attitude towards the