Abavo(delta state threats, killing crisis trance oil producing community and his kingship eye witness report has it that , it's all started in the year 2011 when the Pan Ocean Oil Company came into Abavo community for oil exploration which was found in community.
According to the report most Abavo people were not aware of the exploration, it was only the king and his cabinet chiefs that were involved in the deal and met behind closed door with the Obi Uche Irenuma II, the obi of Abavo kingdom who pocketed money with his chief, the money offered for the entire people of Abavo kingdom.
According to the report, the offer was made by Pan Ocean Oil Company, the amount is about 80 million naira. as at the points of collecting, none of Abavo professionals which have about twenty one oil petroleum engineers was involved in Abavo and none was contacted.
It was learnt that the money caused a lot of the problems which led to the death of High Cheif Aminawu Chiyem And Eleme Of Obi Anyima, on the 3rd November, 2011. the group of concerned Abavo citizen's wrote a letter to Pan Ocean Oil Company regrads the oil exploration in the community,in turn the oil company wrote back to them setting the records straight that they met the obi uche irenuma, the obi of Abavo who the company made the necessary arrangemnets with the obi and his cheif.
They even provided video recording when Obi Uche Irenuma (King) collecting said money offered by the oil company. the representative of pan ocean company told the people of Abavo that they struck the deal with obi and anyima where the oil is located which is the autonomous community just this had deprive Abavo people not to be benefiting from the money paid by oil company.
Meanwhile another source who spoke to our crime correspondent revealed that a lot of strange things had happened in the land; this is because the king is evils personified people are dying mysteriously; this is a bad omens and it shows that Obi Uche Irenuma (king) is not the rightful person to throne of bavo kingdom.
" in 1991, the younger brother of the late king prince P.I. Jegbefume connived with some chiefs and some Abavo elders to dethroned someone who supposed to be the rightful person to the throne of Abavo kingdom; but it was given to the present king who is not in line in the royal households of kingships of Abavo kingdom. The reason they gave for their action was that the mother of the heir to the throne Prince Sunday Ekhator was not an Abavo indigene, unless a full blooded Abavo prince to become a king.
"the action of this disguted elements is against the choice of late Obi S.I Jegbefume The (king), the Late Obi Jegbefume as a custodian of customs and tradition wrote signed a letter with official stamp of Abavo royal palace and attached photograph of his son the prince sunday ekhator jegbelume, aletter he copied to all the traditional rulers in then ika local government area of bendel state, the oba of benin, the governor of bendel state and the commissioner of police in bendel state.
according to the report, the Obi Jegbefume started that upon his demise, his eldest son , Prince Sunday Ekhator Jegbefume should be allowed to be king of Abavo kingdom; this they denied prince Sunday Ekhator Jegbefume of his royal right of becoming the king of Abavo kingdom, this groups of person's never meant well for the good people of Abavo, their actions have caused the Abavo kingdom a very bad conseguences today, that the person, they illegally enthroned as the obi of Abavo kingdom, James Irenuma was not the rightful person, king. He emphasized that a child born out of wedlock can never been a king according to Abavo customs and traditional, yet some members of the royal family went ahead to made the wrong person a king without people of Abavo kingdom. Those that are involved all died mysteriously after confession, even the chief priest Ehiwarior Oghonim Sylvanus also died.
meanwhile, as custom demands, the eldest son pastor Ehiwarior Chuks Collins must take over upon his father demise, but the eldest one of late one is a pastor, as the next chief priest you always meet with the obi the king regularly sometime ago it was learnt that uche irenuma II (king) called would- be chief priest to his palace shrine according to the tradition which must been carried out but priest refused. i told him that he cannot resumed the position of his late father, that he is a pastor and said all effort to convinced him proved abortive.
The embattled king who is almost being dethroned called all the palace guards (Imuibiegua) and his cultists members of Aiye Confratenity who unleashed terror in the community, this is to prevent, his dethronement as a king of Abavo kingdom. The incident that happened in 2014 which claimed no fewer than forty-five people dead, and during this period he needs fortifications of the chief priest which he did not get because of the would-be chief priest declined his resumption of his forefather’s throne.
the most worrisome is that all this are targeted on pastor Ehiwarior Chuks Collins to be eliminated so that he can had his way to choose a new chief priest according to the tradition, a chief priest must die before another is chosen.
As at the time of filling in this report the whereabouts of the eldest son of late chief priest, Pastor Ehiwarior Chuks Collins is unknown.
