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BENIN STAND STILL FOR CAPT HOSA OKUNBOR
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BENIN STAND STILL FOR
CAPT HOSA OKUNBOR
It’s going to be difficult for friends and businessman
associates of the billionaire businessman Captain Hosa Okunbor to come to terms with his new status as a
beaded Benin Chief. For about three decades, this gentleman and philanthropist
with a heart of gold has simply been known as Captain by all and Sunday, now
their dilemma will be whether to call him Captain, which the majority can flow
with or Chief his new title or Chief Captain...am not sure it’s my role to
solve this riddle that comes with
elevation and change of status..they will all just have to find a way around it
or maybe Captain will, this is strictly for laughter, take out an ad to tell his
friends and associates how he wants to
be addressed....laugh your heads off. That’s his problem, not mine.
Anyway, last weekend was great fun in Benin City, the Edo
State Capital. Dignitaries and friends from far and near, with a cascade of
private jets and chattered planes stormed the city, first on Friday, to rejoice
with Captain Hosa wells Okunbor, who was being honoured with a bead by the Oba
of Benin at his palace, which is one of the greatest honour for any Benin man,
though a lot of folks said this honour had been long overdue. The chieftaincy
ceremony, which is another kettle of fish will come sometime later.
The next day the galaxy of stars and the money bags and politician
and Niger Delta who s who gathered at his sprawling residence to attend the commencement
of marriage rites for his beautiful and respectful daughter Ivie, whose beau, Shola, son of the Olu of Warri and
his royal entourage came knocking for her hands in marriage.
For most of the people it was to pay homage to a great man
who had empowered a lot of people across the Niger Delta and who as they say,
in Benin, Continues to ‘make big boys’ every day by his unique style of
empowerment. It perhaps explains why most of the big boys present stayed back
to give moral support and ensure the guests who kept arriving from the morning
of Saturday and flowed through the night. The question people asked and i did
too was what kind of entainment the wedding proper will witness if the
Introduction is this grand... they all will have to wait and see or go ask the
man. Dem wan tell am how to spend him money?
The entertainment, which was quiet simple, since it was just
an introduction, though a lot of people said, Captain does not do small or
simple things, and they must know. Anyway, the food was sumptuous and lavish. I
had starch and banga which came with a super big snail, cat fish and the
biggest cut of stock fish, panla i have
seen served at a party. Of course there
was Chinese and the variants of rice and small chops which came with prawns and
lots of other eatables and to help the flow of food ,the big boys had to decide
what brand of champagne was most suitable, Moet, Rose or Dom Perigon
or for those who love had liquor, VSOP, Red Label, Black Label or Blue
Label depending on how really big you are.
Each time Captain Hosa Okunbor moved about, i heard his
boys, shout, The Lion, i guess that’s his new title. It further compounds what
the jolly rich fellow will go by; Captain, The Lion or Chief. I had fun and so
did a lot of the guests who attended the two day celebration and merriment.
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Al Humphrey Onyanabo
SOCIETY WATCH; OBA OF BENIN'S CURSE ON KIDNAPPERS IS WORKING WONDERS
i hear the curse place placed by the Oba of Benin on Kidnappers operating his kidnappers has started being fruits. Kidnappers still plying their trade are being apprehended daily by the police while others are voluntarily giving up themselves to the palace for the curse to be broken so they can continue with their lives.
The Oba of Benin is the spiritual head of the Edo people and when he gets upset on a matter a places a curse, I am told it sticks. And so while it seems, Edo state is now reveling in peace from kidnappers the south eastern states have been over run by kidnappers. I hear in Abia state all the old men and women have been moved from the village by their children to Lagos, it’s not for ill health or vacation. It’s because of the fear of kidnappers.
In Abia, some of those village based kidnappers ask for N50,000. That’s the value they now place on human life. If only they could import the revered Oba of Benin, to kindly come place a curse on their own kidnappers… but as we all know…if only wishes where horses, the aged and fearful in Abia State will ride. They will have to make do with their own home grown solution.
DRIVING A NEW CAR IN ABA IS AS GOOD AS DIGGING YOUR OWN GRAVE
It might be safe, relatively to drive an SUV or any other brand new car in Lagos. Aba, where chief Theodore Orji, holds sway as governor, it’s like writing and signing your own death certificate. A young man I was told recently came back from Europe with a fancy car, he wanted to don’t blame him, show he had it made, but his dad, told him he could not park the car in his compound because the boy was putting the whole family at risk from armed robbers who are sure to visit. The story was recounted to me by a lagos car dealer who had taken a car to deliver to a client in Aba. The client was out of town for the weekend and he was stuck with the car for three days. His uncle in Aba told him, he was sorry, he could not allow him to park the car in his compound. He started driving around Aba from hotel to hotel, one look at the car and they will send him back into the street. They are also afraid of armed robbers storming the hotel to not only steal the car but also ransack the hotel looking for the owner and the millions of naira he brought home. It was in the bar of the hotel he met the guy from Europe, his case is further compounded, every night the hotel authorities change the guys room.
With all this insecurity and crime in the East, I am told very reliably that most Igbo business men and their family have made up their minds not to travel home for Christmas. That is how bad it has become.
The Oba of Benin is the spiritual head of the Edo people and when he gets upset on a matter a places a curse, I am told it sticks. And so while it seems, Edo state is now reveling in peace from kidnappers the south eastern states have been over run by kidnappers. I hear in Abia state all the old men and women have been moved from the village by their children to Lagos, it’s not for ill health or vacation. It’s because of the fear of kidnappers.
In Abia, some of those village based kidnappers ask for N50,000. That’s the value they now place on human life. If only they could import the revered Oba of Benin, to kindly come place a curse on their own kidnappers… but as we all know…if only wishes where horses, the aged and fearful in Abia State will ride. They will have to make do with their own home grown solution.
DRIVING A NEW CAR IN ABA IS AS GOOD AS DIGGING YOUR OWN GRAVE
It might be safe, relatively to drive an SUV or any other brand new car in Lagos. Aba, where chief Theodore Orji, holds sway as governor, it’s like writing and signing your own death certificate. A young man I was told recently came back from Europe with a fancy car, he wanted to don’t blame him, show he had it made, but his dad, told him he could not park the car in his compound because the boy was putting the whole family at risk from armed robbers who are sure to visit. The story was recounted to me by a lagos car dealer who had taken a car to deliver to a client in Aba. The client was out of town for the weekend and he was stuck with the car for three days. His uncle in Aba told him, he was sorry, he could not allow him to park the car in his compound. He started driving around Aba from hotel to hotel, one look at the car and they will send him back into the street. They are also afraid of armed robbers storming the hotel to not only steal the car but also ransack the hotel looking for the owner and the millions of naira he brought home. It was in the bar of the hotel he met the guy from Europe, his case is further compounded, every night the hotel authorities change the guys room.
With all this insecurity and crime in the East, I am told very reliably that most Igbo business men and their family have made up their minds not to travel home for Christmas. That is how bad it has become.
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