Nana Olomu

Nana Olomu , amonẹ a nwọ kọ Olumu (1852–1916) chi ajọfẹItsekiri  i che ki la a nwọ che ukọlọ ekpo ọjọ gẹ ugbo ki kwo Niger Delta ejọwọ southern Nigeria.  Olomu chi ajọfẹ Itsekiri ẹkẹlẹ ki gwọ nyi  Governor aji Benin. 


Itsekeri KpaiAmi Ẹnẹfu 
Ọdọ 1851  British Consul eyi Bights eyi Benin kpai Biafra, John Beecroft, nyi  Governor eyi Benin River ma la mu du nwu aj'ọfẹ Itsekiri , Idiare. Ọfẹ govonor chẹ dukpẹ ki chi Akwọra unyi meji ajẹ yì Itsekiri, Akwọra unyi ki du kpẹ ki che govonor chi Emaye kpai Ologbotsere.  Alu ki Attah nwu kwu ma dukpẹ  edu ọfẹ govonor nwi Emaye ámá ma mu du nwu Nana Olomu

Ọdọ1884 Nana Olomu mudi Governor eyi Benin River ẹkẹlẹ. Olomu kpai ami ẹnẹfu d'ọwọ t'ọtakada todu ki ami ẹnẹfu British gboji gba anẹ Itsekiri. Ubọla dẹ agbagba ami ẹnẹfu kpai abo itsekiri ati iko ku ma cheBerlin conference ọdọ 1884-85, iko lẹ ma tene lọla abo Itsekiri gẹn todu ku m'anya aja kpai abo Urhobo.The Times, Saturday, February 16, 1895; p.15
“The permanent cause of war is in almost all cases along this coast the same. ..As the small shop system in European towns has been ruined by the larger form given to the retail trade, so the native trading system on the West African coast is being displaced by European enterprise.  The steamers and exploration parties of European companies pass far up the river courses and tap the markets behind the coast belt, buying for themselves produce which must otherwise have reached the coast through the medium of the native chiefs.  That the chieftains of the coast should feel this to be a serious grievance is not remarkable...These were the causes which led to the rising and subjection of Jaja of Opoba...and to the late war against Nana of Benin...”

Ujah Kpai Abo Urhobo
Alu ki abo ẹnẹfu kpai abo itsekiri ma gboji dama gẹn, efu ọdọ 1892 ati ọdọ 1893, Abo Urhobo kpai ami ẹnẹfu d'ọwọ t'ọtakada, Udama Abo Urhobo kpai ami ẹnẹfu British chanẹ nwọ tọgba, i la jẹ nwu ẹdọ Olomu mu kpabiẹ. Olomu jẹ nwu abo Itsekiri na j'uja kpaí abo Urhobo ki ya nya’ja kpai am'ẹnẹfu, i la jẹ nwu ami British kuma d'ọwọ n'aja kuma nya kpai abo Urhobo. Ọeọ1894 ami ajọfẹ amonẹ kuma dẹ Itsekiri dabi d'ọwọ t'ọtakada kpai ami ẹnẹfu todu kuma chẹnwu dama, i kpọkpẹn, Olumo mi ọla nwu du dufu efewo Lagos, ma la fure unyi uga kuma fu deport. Ugbo ku ma deport nwu lo chi  Gold Coast (Ghana.)The Times, Tuesday, December 1, 1896; pg.7 “A Reuter despatch from Liverpool says that the Royal mail ship Batanga...left Old Calabar on October 21, having on board Nana, the Benin chief.  Nana, his wife and son, were placed in the Batanga for conveyance to Accra.  It was reported at Old Calabar that for some time a number of natives from Benin had surreptitiously been gathering at the back of the river, and it was feared that Nana might with their aid escape...He was landed at Accra on November 2. He is to be kept at Christiansborg, on the Gold Coast,  where he will have a house provided for his use and will be allowed full liberty to move about the town, reporting himself to the authorities once a week. Nana was in excellent health and conversed freely about the late war, for which he blamed certain traders.”

Flagi
National Maritime Museum, ki defu Royal Museums ki di Greenwich, UK, che ni West African flag mẹlẹ, ami ẹnwu kuma du nwu oji flag mẹta chi odu ( see here)  Nana, ẹnwu kuma ka che kakini Nana Olumo, gbaki am Ọma ọnẹkẹlẹ ma ni ami ẹnẹfu British.

Alu kuma che ujiwe Flag ẹkẹlẹ ki di Greenwich Royal Museums lẹ ma ni flag lẹ nyi ugbo nwu kwi ẹtẹ Itsikiri o. 

Museum
Ma f'ugbo ki ọfẹ Olomu dẹ rida ti museum, onwu che Nana Living History Museum, e ki a du ña ẹkọtanẹ a mẹnwu ki che kpai abo British. Ugbo ki dẹ che Koko, Delta State.

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Gbúgbe:1852 births
Gbúgbe:1916 deaths
Gbúgbe:Itsekiri people
Gbúgbe:19th-century Nigerian people
Gbúgbe:20th-century Nigerian people
Gbúgbe:People from colonial Nigeria