The Igala story that set the arena for the current status quo
The Igala situation is like the story told of a woman who after so many years of inability to bring forth a child for her husband, even though he was not bothered by the situation, suggested to him that he sleeps with her maid servant so that she (the maid servant) could bear her (the mistress) children. -Fundamental mistake! The husband desirous of a child agreed to his wife’s seemingly novel proposal to have a slave bear forth a child for them. -Mistake number 2 The slave mid-servant agreed to her mistress proposal to sleep with her mistress’s master (husband) and bear them a child. - Mistake number 3 When the mid-servant took in, she became rude and began treating her mistress with levity and contempt: her mistress was despised in her eyes seeing she easily did what her mistress could not achieve in decades. The mistakes were now developing into a major crisis. The mistress now said to the mistress, “it’s all your fault! Now this servant of mine is pregnant, and she despise me, tho...