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As Rivers Accompaniment celebrates the 50th ceremony of its creation, Mrs. Ella Prest, who witnessed the struggle, intrigues and claimed sacrifices fabricated by acclaimed individuals from the littoral breadth for the conception of the state, captures the arrangement of contest that led to the actualization of the state
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NAUTILUS RESTAURANT-Port Douglas - Our Restaurant | Nautilus Port Douglas Dress CodeI am Ella Prest an indigene of Rivers State. I am over 80 years and a alive attestant to some of the above activities that led to the actualization and development of Rivers State. I alone apperceive some of the actors in the agitation, accumulation and development of Rivers Accompaniment including, Chief P.G Warmate, Chief Dappa Biriye, Chief Melford Okilo, His Royal Majesty Francis Alagoa Mingi X of Nembe, Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree, Reverend E.T Dimiari, Chief Emanuel Aguma, Chief Thomanuel, Chief Napoleon Graham Douglas, Chief Opuogulaya and Mr. Ken Sarowiwa to acknowledgment a few.
Between 1956 -1964 I formed in the Nigerian Civilian Service, aboriginal in the Administrator General's Appointment (Lagos, Federal Basic of Nigeria), again in the Director of Public Prosecutions office, Lagos, Federal Admiral of Justice and assuredly the Federal Civilian Service Commission, Lagos. I larboard for the Affiliated Kingdom with my ancestors in 1964. Whilst in the Affiliated Kingdom I formed in the British Civilian Service Commission, Savile Row, London and thereafter in the Nigerian High Commission Northumberland Ave, London, U.K.
During this period, I alternate in the Rivers Acceptance Union, boot and agitating for a abstracted character for the bodies of the Littoral Breadth during the Biafra War. Our admiral was Mr. Hebron Tom George, a Kalabari from Buguma who afterwards became a Judge in the Rivers Accompaniment Judiciary. Addition arch affiliate was Mr. Koko from Okrika who was consistently actual alive in our campaigns, ferrying us up and bottomward in his car. It was at this time that Mr. Hebron Tom George our admiral submitted copies of diplomacy to the British Parliament that referred to the Willink Commission Address which authentic the littoral bodies as a audible accumulation in the again Eastern Region of Nigeria.
Pan African Coffer endemic by Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree was axial to the enactment and development of Rivers State. Whilst I was alive in the Nigerian High Commission, Chief GKJ Amachree himself arrive me to appear and assignment for him in his bank. In ablaze of the above I am accordingly accustomed with best of the above contest that led to the conception and development of Rivers State.
Reason for the Struggle
The acumen for the attempt for the conception of a Rivers Accompaniment was to abate their fears of marginalization, advance development and abutment the able identification of the littoral bodies as a audible accumulation in the above Eastern Region of Nigeria. This was durably accurate by the British Government, Nigerian Government and all political parties and was fought primarily by the chiefs and bodies of the littoral breadth of the above Eastern Region.
The People, their Identity, Ability and Traditions
Rivers State, the Venice of Nigeria, amidst by rivers and seas, a God accustomed accompaniment affluent in human, mineral and accustomed resources, is anchored in the southern allotment of Nigeria and Anchorage Harcourt, additionally accepted and alleged the "Garden City of Nigeria" is its capital.The Rivers bodies consisting of Ikwerre, Kalabari, Ibani, Nembe, Yenagoa, Okrika, Ahoada, Ogoni, Opobo- Nkuro and Bile are a boyhood accumulation in the southern allotment of the above Eastern Region forth the littoral areas of Nigeria. They are mainly traders, fishermen, and farmers. Best of them alive on baby islands and towns forth the Atlantic Ocean and the creeks. They accepted apprenticeship due to their aboriginal acquaintance with the Europeans in the 17th - 18th aeon and a acceptable cardinal of them were awful accomplished and able in their assorted fields. The ascendant accumulation in the Eastern Region are the Ibos who alive on the acreage area. They are farmers and traders with a absolutely altered history and ability from the Rivers people.
The Chiefs in the Littoral Breadth were actual affable and able because of their aboriginal barter contacts with the Portuguese and added Europeans that aboriginal came to the breadth now alleged Nigeria in the 17th to 18th century. Due to the advantageous barter with these Littoral Chiefs, the British in 1884 declared ascendancy over the Littoral Areas by establishing it as the Oil Rivers Protectorate which was accepted in the Berlin Conference in 1885. The Oil Rivers Protectorate was administered by the British Foreign Office. This agency trading with Europeans in what is now alleged Nigeria started in the Littoral Areas of the Niger Delta, Badagry and Lagos. The Rivers Chiefs traded with the aboriginal Europeans in Approach oil/kernel, balk and disciplinarian in barter for canons, apricot chaplet and clothing. Abonnema accustomed in 1882 was a above seaport. The Littoral Bodies accept a continued continuing history and ability that accomplish them a audible Bodies in Nigeria.
From 1900 there was a Rivers Province fabricated up of four divisions, Degema, Ahoada, Brass and Ogoni with Anchorage Harcourt as headquarters. Best of the islands forth the sea and towns in the creeks were in Degema Commune anon beneath a British Commune Officer. Degema had its Police Barracks, High Court, the Native Court, the Tax Office, Prisons, General Hospital, Post Appointment etc. It additionally had a sea anchorage in Abonnema breadth the approach oil/kernel, balk and added commodity were exported to Europe.
Before independence, the Littoral Areas were afloat with barter and commerce. Alone chiefs endemic their launches (passenger boats), like Idoniboyeobu, Amakrita endemic by Chief Tom Big Harry, Soberekon by Chief Soberekon, Wahihi and Acceptable Account by Chief Briggs and abounding added with 'flyboats' active river carriage networks to Degema the commune headquarters. Surprisingly the Abonnema anchorage which answer business and jobs for the bodies in Degema Division was bankrupt bottomward with no replacement. Bodies from Ahoada and Nembe, who travelled to Abonnema through the creeks to consign their commodity at the Abonnema port, now accept to biking to Anchorage Harcourt at abounding bread-and-butter disadvantage.
The Rivers Breadth was difficult to advance due to the littoral attributes of the abode which attracts huge bulk of money to accost acreage from the sea and additionally body bridges to affix the towns and villages in the sea and creeks to the basic land. But Lagos Island, Victoria Island, Apapa are all islands affiliated to one addition and to Ikeja the accompaniment basic in the acreage with the aforementioned oil money. I do not see any acumen why Bonny, Bakana, Tombia and Buguma bottomward to Degema and others cannot be affiliated to ceremony added and the acreage with bridges as was envisaged in the Master Plan of OMPADEC (Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission) if there is candor and political will. The Rivers Accompaniment adorning problems are huge, which is absolutely why God gave us oil and gas and sea ports. Unfortunately this God accustomed advantage has not been activated for our people.
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Tourism Port Douglas Australia - Port Douglas restaurants | Nautilus Port Douglas Dress CodeMost of the basic towns and villages forth the ocean and creeks in the Littoral Breadth are still not affiliated to the acreage in animosity of the abounding assets from the area. The abridgement of acceptable alley arrangement and allusive busline has bedfast advice and development in the Area. Bonny, Brass, Buguma, Abonnema, Okrika, and some added amphibian towns in Opobo, Andoni etc., if affiliated to the acreage can be angry into cities and thereby actualize bartering activities and jobs for the people. They can additionally be the wonders of the apple for barter and tourism. One alone has to attending at tourism "Paradise Destinations" all over the apple to apperceive that it is a absolution to be by the sea. My appointment to Venice gave me the achievement that we can still be developed back politicians will attention development as a assignment to the nation. Development is a backside animal right.
May I actually accompaniment that the bodies of the Littoral areas accept been affable centuries ago, they alike accept the Bible and aria books translated in the assorted languages of the accompaniment acknowledgment to Bishop Fubara of the Christian Council.
THe Struggle
The Willink Commission Address July 1958
This address accent the fears of the boyhood groups of the above Eastern Region and articular them as actual audible groups with a altered ability from the ascendant accumulation of Eastern Nigeria. The address proposed an "Area for a River Accompaniment to be comprised of the accomplished of the Rivers Province which will accommodate the Capacity of Brass, Degema, Ogoni, Anchorage Harcourt and Ahoada calm with the Western Ijaw Division from the Western Region and two baby sections in Eastern Region from alfresco the Rivers Province, Opobo and Andoni actuality one, Ndoki the other". This confirms the affirmation of the Littoral bodies as a audible accumulation in Nigeria.
The all-overs about accessible carelessness of their breadth Breadth and the abhorrence of marginalization, accountable the chiefs and bodies of Rivers Breadth to anatomy assorted political and burden groups like The Ijaw Rivers Peoples' League accustomed 18/11/43, Ijaw Union, C.O.R Accompaniment - Calabar, Ogoja, Rivers Accompaniment -supported by the Action Accumulation Party. Chief Dappa Biriye (Ibani) from Bonny as Secretary and Chief Thom Manuel (Kalabari) from Abonnema as Chairman, Rivers Accompaniment Congress (RSC.)/ Niger Delta Congress accurate by the Northern People's Congress Affair led by Chief Melford Okilo (Izon) from Yenagoa, and assuredly Rivers Chiefs and Peoples' Conference (RCPC) accomplished and led by Chief P.G. Warmate of NCNC, the cardinal affair in the again Eastern Region breadth the Rivers bodies were domiciled.
The RCPC eventually served as the awning affair for all the Rivers people, irrespective of their political behavior and differences, in the attempt for the conception of Rivers State. Chief P.G. Warmate confused the motion, seconded by Chief D.S. Oribo which gave bearing to the accumulation of the Rivers Chiefs and Peoples Conference on 4th July 1956 at the Rex Cinema Hall in Harbour Road, Anchorage Harcourt. Chief P.G. Warmate added confused and was seconded by Chief D.S. Oribo for the choice of His Royal Majesty Francis Alagoa - Mingi X of Nembe as the Protem Chairman and Chief Harold Dappa Biriye as Protem Secretary.
This became the aboriginal able political belvedere for the conception of Rivers State. It was additionally as a aftereffect of the Rivers Chiefs and Peoples Conference (RCPC) that the Eastern Regional Government accorded a audible bench out of two seats advised for Chiefs of above Eastern Nigeria at the Constitutional Conference in London in 1957. Chief Dappa Biriye actuality the Protem Secretary of the Chiefs and Peoples Conference was nominated to represent the RCPC in London in 1957 for the Nigerian Constitutional Conference and added contest in 1958. Chief P.G Warmate a top affiliate of the NCNC, the cardinal affair of Eastern Nigeria was amenable for the accumulation and closing accepting of RCPC by the again Eastern Regional Government. The Rivers Chiefs and Peoples Conference, RCPC became the aboriginal able political belvedere for the conception of Rivers State.
Historians should never balloon these facts which accept been accurate by antecedent publications (Ref. Nigerian Tide of August 13th, 1999. Focus - 9.), additionally accredit to Chief E.D.W. Opuogulaya's book - "History of the Conception of the Rivers Accompaniment of Nigeria). Chief H. Dapa Biriye alone remarked on this affair on 24th November 1991 at the countdown appropriate affair of Leaders of Thought from above Degema Division breadth he declared that P.G Warmate was amenable for the accumulation of RCPC which was the able political belvedere for the attempt and conception of River State.
At the time of the antecedent attempt the Rivers bodies fabricated several petitions and demands for accompaniment creation. These were alone on the attic of the Federal Parliament. The acumen accustomed was that Rivers Accompaniment was not applicable to actualize in animosity of the abounding bartering activities activity on and the abounding assets of the Area. Chief Melford Okilo, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Alhaji Tafawa Balewa wept aboveboard back these decisions were taken. Chief Okilo was one of the primary activists in the attempt for the conception of Rivers State.
Isaac Adaka Boro and added Activists
Isaac Adaka Boro (Izon) from Yenagoa, an undergraduate from University of Nigeria Nsukka and his adolescent undergraduate Freedom Fighters, declared war on the Federal Government ambitious a Niger Delta Republic afterwards which the Rivers Bodies will no best abutment the Federal Government in the civilian war. The apostasy lasted 12 days. With him were Sam Owonaro (Izon), Nottingham Dick (Izon) , Nyanayo (Nembe) and Okumaye, (Kalabari) (Buguma) and abounding added university undergraduates, from the accompaniment who took up accoutrements and were arraigned for treason. They were dedicated by Chief GKJ Amachree . This apostasy constituted one of the above pressures on the Federal Government for the closing conception of the Rivers State.
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Forest Deck Wedding @ Nautilus - Picture of Nautilus Restaurant ... | Nautilus Port Douglas Dress CodeApart from these activists, all the Bodies of the Littoral Breadth including ascendant chiefs, politicians, civilian servants, clergy men, university advisers and alike accouchement were complex in this attempt for our cultural identity. In actuality all the Rivers men and women were in the attempt because they all agreed to assignment beneath one awning irrespective of their political differences as bodies of one afterlife to accomplish this happen. - I address all of them for their acumen and incorruptible patriotism.
Finally, Gen. Yakubu Gowon the Aggressive Head of Accompaniment anon afterwards the Nigerian civilian war angry Nigeria into a 12 Accompaniment nation. Rivers Accompaniment was created 27th May 1967 with Anchorage Harcourt as the capital. Lt. Cmdr. Alfred Papapreye Diete Spiff now the Amayanabo of Twon Brass, from Nembe, was appointed by the Federal Aggressive Government as the Aboriginal Aggressive Governor of Rivers State. It was about not anon accessible to move to Anchorage Harcourt the Rivers Accompaniment Basic due to the confusion of war in the Eastern Region.
It was accordingly a government in banishment run from No. 24 Queens Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos, the again Federal Basic of Nigeria. So, arresting Rivers indigenes like Chief GKJ Amachree, (Kalabari), from Buguma contributed best of the assets needed, including his office, to according the Rivers Accompaniment Aggressive Governor's Appointment in Ikoyi, Lagos and Anchorage Harcourt until 1st September 1968. While the Aggressive Governor's appointment was still in Lagos, Chief Dr. Melford Graham-Douglas (Kalabari), from Abonnema, was fabricated the aboriginal Administrator for Anchorage Harcourt. Mr. Ken Sarowiwa, (Ogoni) from Khana was appointed the Administrator for Bonny, and Captain Elechi Amadi an Ikwerre from Alu, was additionally appointed the Administrator for Anchorage Harcourt until 1968 back the Aggressive Governor took up appointment in Anchorage Harcourt, Basic of the Rivers State.
Chief Godfrey Kio Jana Amachree Q.C.
The Rivers Bodies had their kings and chiefs that ran their communities as self- administering units. Their kings and ascendant chiefs own their acreage and admeasure the acreage to their citizens on request, away from government interference. They additionally accept their own dress codes which are now acclimated by abounding added Nigerians. Apart from trading with the Europeans, they additionally accomplished their accouchement and produced the aboriginal accomplished sons and daughters of Nigeria, amidst whom was Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree, (Kalabari) from Buguma, who became the aboriginal Nigerian-born Solicitor General in 1958 and by the time the colonial administration's Legal Department was adapted into the Admiral of Justice, he additionally became the aboriginal Permanent Secretary. Chief GKJ Amachree was amid the aboriginal Nigerian attorneys to be accepted to the Inner Bar in Britain as a Queens Counsel at the age of 43 and Chief GKJ Amachree was additionally the Aboriginal Black under- Secretary General to the Affiliated Nations.
He was the aboriginal Nigerian to own a clandestine jet. He was additionally a key amount in the attempt for the conception of Rivers State. He was the wealthiest Rivers man who acclimated his abundance to actualize abundance for the Rivers man and woman by the enactment of the Rivers Accompaniment Pan African Coffer Ltd, and became its aboriginal Chairman. With the abetment from the Pan African bank, contractors, traders and businesses emerged.
This generated bartering activities and created a new Average Chic and C.E.O's in the anew created Rivers Accompaniment because of the availability of accounts from the coffer to these groups. He additionally brought the Delta Air Charter to break air busline problems in the State. Indeed he should be declared as the ancestor of Rivers state. His addition to the conception of the accompaniment abaft the scenes and the development of the Rivers Accompaniment was additional to none
Naval Lt. Cmdr. Alfred Papapreye Diete Spiff
Lt Cmdr. Alfred Papapreye Diete Spiff, (Nembe) the aboriginal Aggressive Governor of Rivers Accompaniment took up appointment at the Rivers Accompaniment capital, Anchorage Harcourt on 1st September 1968. He was a young, mature, affectionate and affectionate governor. He was a alert governor, a accurate Rivers Son. He was accurate at altered times by two able Heads of Service, Chief Daniel Kalio, (Okrika), and Chief W.S. Tieinabeso (Kalabari) from Buguma, and affectionate Commissioners and Super Permanent Secretaries of Rivers agent who were transferred from the Federal/State Public Services to serve in Anchorage Harcourt. Naval Lt. Cmdr. Alfred Diete Spiff fabricated Anchorage Harcourt one of the best Accompaniment Capitals in Nigeria with best of the basement all-important for babyminding and development.
A appropriate acknowledgment charge be fabricated of Chief Dr. Napoleon. Graham- Douglas (Kalabari), from Abonnema who was the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice who produced the certificate on Abandoned Property Law that enabled Rivers Accompaniment indigenes to own landed backdrop in Anchorage Harcourt. This atypical act accomplished one of the aspirations of all the rivers bodies as owners of their land.
His Law Firm was destroyed during the Nigerian civilian war, Chief A.K. Spiff, (Nembe), the Permanent Secretary for Acreage and Housing Anchorage Harcourt, with Chief C.T.Horsfall, (Kalabari), from Buguma, the Surveyor General, in the aforementioned ministry, should be commended for attention the Accompaniment acreage for acceptable use by the Government and the Rivers People.
The accompaniment had the best Secretariat, High Court, PABOD SUPPLY, Rivers Accompaniment Carriage Corporation, Rivbank Insurance, the Risonpalm, 2 Five Star Hotels, and Catering Rest Houses in every bounded government. Governor Spiff gave several scholarships to Rivers indigenes for college apprenticeship and abstruse training to abstraction Hotel Management, Catering, Driving, Building and Architecture etc. in Nigeria and away and automated scholarship for science students. He accustomed schools for distinctively able Rivers children.
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Nautilus Restaurant, Port Douglas - Restaurant Reviews, Phone ... | Nautilus Port Douglas Dress CodeHe congenital a 30 Bed Hospitals in all the Bounded Government Head Quarters, a University of Science and Technology, complete new academy buildings, repaired old ones and congenital canals in the Littoral Breadth for affluence of movement in the creeks, and acceptable anchorage to affix the towns on the basic land, and in Anchorage Harcourt.
The Pan African Coffer accustomed by GKJ Amachree financed all these projects. The coffer additional the abridgement of the Rivers Accompaniment and brought a new charter of activity to the bodies that were ravaged by the civilian war, thereby accouterment the abundant bare development. The assorted architecture works created jobs for the indigenes in the state.
This created average chic men and women who were able to accelerate their accouchement to acceptable schools and universities in Nigeria and abroad. This advance was additionally fabricated accessible because of the abounding cooperation of the accompaniment governor who was affectionate and afraid to advance the State. The aggressive governor was additionally accustomed abounding abutment by all the Rivers Bodies too in animosity of the challenges of Upland and Littoral backroom and the attendance of the altered political groups in the state.
At the end all the assorted groups and political affair supporters active their differences and formed beneath the aforementioned awning as Rivers bodies with one destiny.
The Nigerian Tide and Radio Rivers should be commended for their allotment in disseminating advice and account in the assorted above languages of the state, in Ikwerre, Kalabari, Khana, Izon, and Pigeon English which gives the accurate character of the Rivers people.
Ironically, the Rivers Accompaniment that was alone as not applicable has become the 'Goose That Laid The Golden Egg' accouterment about 97% of Nigeria's income. Unfortunately the abundance enjoyed by the accomplished country is yet to be beneficially activated to the bodies of our state. The development of the Littoral Breadth of River Accompaniment requires a lot of money which auspiciously our Breadth produces. Our ambition today should be to advance the Littoral Breadth into the tourism destinations of Africa like the Maldives, Seychelles and Bali with Anchorage Harcourt as its gateway. Becoming a day-tripper destination is accustomed to our breadth and actual assisting today and will be added assisting in the future. This will abutment abundance in the accomplished accompaniment and adapt our bodies for the abreast approaching back oil is no more.
I address our Rivers chiefs and elders, our founding fathers, who did not advertise us out for bargain egocentric bribes and alone adulation of money and power. I address the adventuresomeness and address for not acceptance themselves swallowed up by the big groups. They accept preserved our character ability and dignity. Let us chase their footsteps.
As we bless the 50th ceremony of the conception of Rivers Accompaniment we should reflect on the goals and aspirations of our Founding Fathers and see how far we accept gone and plan for the approaching as a affiliated bodies with one ambition and one destiny.
A Golden Jubilee is historically and biblically an important landmark. Our Governor Nyelson Wike who is at the captain of diplomacy at this point of our history is not alone adored but is saddled with the astronomic albatross of accomplishing the dreams of our Founding Fathers and the Bodies of Rivers State.
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Our ambition today should be to advance the littoral breadth into the tourism destinations of Africa like the Maldives, Seychelles and Bali with Anchorage Harcourt as its gateway. Becoming a day-tripper destination is accustomed to our breadth and actual assisting today and will be added assisting in the future. This will abutment abundance in the accomplished Accompaniment and adapt our Bodies for the abreast approaching back oil is no more.
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