IGARRA

part 1

Igarra is the Capital of the Kukuruku Province of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the colonial Days of Lord Lugard, McPherson etc as Governor General of the Nigeria. A country created in 1914 by the colonial Governor General Lord Lugard amalgamating the North and southern protectorates of the area that is now known as Nigeria.

Before then there was no country called Nigeria and in 2014 that creation of Lord Luggard will be celebrating its first centenary...

The Kukuruku Province was one of the federating provinces created by Lord Lugard with its capital town in Igarra. The Kukuruku Province and Igarra has been marginalized since the country gained independence from the British rule in 1960.

All other provincial Capitals have become state Capitals like Oshogbo, Lafia, Gombe, Abeokuta, Benin, Onitsha etc but Igarra was only able to become a Local Govt headquarters till date...

Also all the provinces of created by Lord Lugard has become STATES in the new dispensation like Kaba Province now Korgi State.. etc but the Kukuruku Province has not been given a state status till date but only bastardized and butchered to enlarge other states like EDO State, Korgi State and Ondo state... this was actually not the design of H.E. Lord Lugard the first Governor General of the Nigeria state, because the Kukuruku Province was and is indeed a very rich Province that even loan the government of Western Region the sum of 200, 000 pounds Starling which was a big sum of money those days and unpaid till today.

H.E. Lord Lugard built a house and a secretariat for the Governor of the Kukuruku Province in Igarra and they were resident in Igarra and invested heavily in the great endowment of the Kukuruku Province. The Province leads in the availability of solid mineral deposits like lime stone used for cement and the Okpela cement factory gets its limes stone from the Kukuruku as well as located in the kukuruku province, we have gold at Damgbala also a town in the Kukuruku, diamond, barium, uranium, iron ore, ferrous metal ores, emerald....these metals are highly invaluable to the industrial man in the context of energy generating as in weaponry.

The Kukuruku is also very rich in both cash crops of cocoa, palm oil and kernel, cotton, timber, cashew nuts, sheer butter, groundnuts etc while in the aspects of food crops and animal husbandry the Kukuruku province was a leading province contributing above its quota to the development and advancement of the Nigeria state before the discovery of oil in the 60s.

But soon after oil/ petroleum were discovered in some parts of the federation all attention moved to that industry and the Kukuruku province suffered neglect and abandonment. Only recently that a fertilizer plant was situated in the Kukuruku and a number of big cement plant is being constructed by some investors and also Dangote group announced last month that they will build the Largest fertilizer company in Edo State and we are hoping that it will be sited in the Kukuruku province that is the actual source of the raw materials for the industry...

again many industries in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Ibadan and even abroad source their line stone raw materials and its derivatives of calcite etc from the kukuruku province companies like Nigerite, Jagal etc manufacturing asbestos roofing sheets etc... Kukuruku is also having Aluminum deposits, petroleum, and many other undiscovered minerals but for lack of attention and will of the leadership both in federal level and state level the place has become virtually a ghost town and almost all the great sons and daughters of the Kukuruku Province have checked out of the Province living in other states of Nigeria in search of greener pasture and a large percentage of its citizens are in Europe, America , Asia and other parts of the world in search of livelihood were as they have at home ,GOD given wealth that could make them leaders of the entire globe... but destiny for now have turned most of them to sojourners and aliens in other peoples land being used as beast of burden to enrich and develop the glories of other people with disregard and impunity...