THE WORLD MUST HEAR AND SEE THE AGONY OF THE BENIN -EDO PEOPLE IN THERE OWN LAND.

"Is Africa a scar on the conscience of the World?"

The highest source of migrants to the World in Nigeria and indeed West Africa is Benin City . The most depraved and deprived region in Nigeria . The social problem that is forcing our youths to flee from the land of their birth is known to all of us DEPRIVATION. Our youth have been deprived for a very long time; the latest is University of Benin that was founded due to deprivation caused by our cousins the Yoruba and Igbos over University of Ife , Ibadan and Nssukka. We the Bini people will not stealth our swords while alien dictates to us what we should do with this instrument of civilization that was conceived by its founders to cater for our people.

During my time at UNIBEN, THE MOST POPULAR LANGUAGES SPOKEN AT UNIBEN WERE YORUBA AND IGBO. Although Professor Irene Agheyisi was the head of my department my, other Edo lecturers were a handful, every institution, industries in the worldwide establish in any location were supposed to impart on the locality they have been established.

I wrote few days ago that there are certain unique features of the Benin people that can only be represented by the Benin people – brothers trust me, I have travelled round the world our IKPEN- the red yam is not found anywhere in the world, the closest is the Jamaica red yam but they do not taste the same, we have Iyokho it is like yam probably extinct now, we have the red and white Akaha, a root crop that is not even planted by our farmers probably extinct as well, we also have the water yam that is only exclusive to us. Our fathers Osadebe and Ogbemudia did not establish this Uniben for it not to impart on our way of life, this institution was taken over by the Federal Government to have enough resources to bring the best out of Edoland in the form of research, projects and empirical monitoring of certain unique features of the Edo people for example the faculty of Engineering at Ugbowo has been one of the best in Nigeria, I doubt if it had carried out any research into the Biniman’s architecture building and who was responsible for some complex Oteghodos and structural designs of building and I doubt if the Faculty of Agriculture have made any research into our reserve land and how our bush fallow system can be preserved, aided by the Government in form of providing boreholes in our reserve land, the Israelis farms are in arid land but their irrigation system made their farming system the best in the World. Our various arms of Government do not have responsibilities but various institutions put in place to task them are inept because of their structure.
And again, if Uniben is not advancing our civilization and way of life so why was it established or taken over by the FG? What are the duties of University Commission? Another Federal institution that is not contributing anything to advancing our civilization is Federal Girls College Benin City, that institution in my time was like a cult, nobody knows how admissions are conducted, the institution will not participate in inter house sport with other institutions, they will not participate in inter quiz context, like Uniben I doubt if the thirty percent catchment quota is given to Benin City. Now our problems are not far fetch ehem? Up north of England- I mean Birmingham , Manchester , Liverpool, Blackpool, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburg , for every 5 black men 3 are Edo people. In Dublin , Cork , Waterford and Longford, the remotest part of north of England , for every 5 black men 4 are Edo people.

And finally, those negotiating our stakes at our local, State and Federal level are dumb, if a Biniman could not be appointed as the VC of UNIBEN, forty years after its establishment so, what about our stakes at Federal Government Girls College Benin City, I did not know any of my peers who were ex-alumni of Federal Government Girls College Benin City, do you know anything about this college? I do not know any of my cousins, neighbours that attended this college. What about our stakes in the civil service, Navy, Police, Army, and Air force, SSS and Foreign Service? Benin people are moving out of their land because of deprivation; is it politically correct and justifiable that our children are dying in droves on their way to Lampedusa?