At 53 years on the throne, 91 years old, Igwe K. O. N. Orizu III one of the longest serving monarch in Nigeria today.

In this exclusive interview with the Vintage News team led by Bar. Obunike Ohaegbu, a Director of the VINTAGE PUBLICATIONS; the Traditional Supreme Leader of Nnewi spoke  on his childhood, his ascension to the throne of his forefathers and the challenges in presiding over the affairs of one of the most successful towns in Nigeria and Africa among other issues. Excerpts.

 

A lot of people only know you as His Royal Highness,the Igwe of Nnewi who has spent over 52 years on the throne but they don’t know about the personality behind the throne. We would like you to tell us about your childhood and growing up before you ascended the throne.

I was born into a polygamous family. My grandfather, Igwe Orizu 1 married about 35 wives and 70 concubines. Then there was no car to move about with. He was usually carried in ‘amok’. There was something called ‘amok’. It was carried by 16 able bodied men. Their job is to carry my grandfather around in the ‘amok’ wherever he is going.

 

For instance then, they do go to court in Onitsha to preside over cases. During the journey, four people will carry the ‘amok’ to a quarter of the journey, another four will carry to half of the journey ,they would be replaced by another four just like that until they reach to their destination. In Onitsha, my grandfather was usually taken to a rest house. The journey to Onitsha usually starts from here (the Palace in Nnewi) by 8pm in the night after dinner. In Onitsha, after the Court proceedings, they would retire to the rest house, have their dinner and begin the journey back home by 8pm again.

 

At that time, whenever my grandfather was moving around, there were people with the responsibility to always announce on the road that the King was on the road so that other road users would stay out of the road until my grandfather passed. He was not supposed to “share the road with mere mortals” (laughs).

 

My grandfather used to sit here, (referring to his chair in the palace). Then, the security of the King was paramount. There used to be about three security posts from that gate to the Palace. There was thorough scrutiny at the gates by the bodyguards before visitors are allowed to enter and see him unlike today when anybody can enter the palace without hindrance.

 

Story had it that there was a woman they brought from another town that lived in the palace in a place called ‘enete’. (You know as at that time, the King was not obliged to go through the marriage processes. All he needed to do was to express interest on a woman and she would become his wife). The other wives of my grandfather maltreated her and one day she used a kitchen knife to place ‘ofo’ saying that she knew she was going to die but when she dies, that no woman in the palace will conceive not to talk of giving birth to a male child unless they go to her place to marry another woman.

 

 

She said marrying from her place will be the only compensation for the maltreatment she received from the Palace. The woman eventually died and it was difficult for any woman within the Palace to conceive. So, traditional investigation as was obtainable then was conducted.  It was then agreed that a woman was going to be married from Umuchu to atone for the injustice meted out on the woman. That was how my mum was married.

 

 

It was not long after that, my grandfather died. My father was in Calabar then schooling when he got a message that his father had passed on. Before he returned back to Nnewi, his kinsmen had taken away most of my grandfather’s valuable possessions. On my father’s return, he was installed as his father’s successor as the King of Nnewi in accordance with our customs and traditions.

 

So it was during his reign that my mother conceived and gave birth to me. The other women were obviously jealous of my mother. They were hostile and maltreated her to the extent that she died after seven days of giving birth to me.My father sustained me by feeding me with milk and coconut water in place of breast milk. They brought some Nnewi women to try breast to feed me with their breasts but it didn’t work before my father finally settled for milk and coconut water till when I started eating food. So I became one with father and no mother.

 

In those days before you could enroll into the primary school, they will first of all make sure your hands can touch your ears. (laughs). I began my primary education at Akwudo Central School where I was able to acquire some basic knowledge before moving to Nkwo Central School. From there, I moved to Calabar, where my father schooled and lived as well, for primary school. I got to Calabar with the help of my in-law who was married to one of our sisters. By the time I returned from Calabar to Nnewi after my standard six, the secondary school academic session had already began in Nnewi. I wasn’t able to enroll. I finished standard six in 1944 and was only enrolled into Bethel College Onitsha in 1946. At Bethel College, I stopped at class four because my father could no longer afford the cost of my continuing. I returned to Nnewi and had no job to do. I was just “hanging” around.

 

However, sometime in 1952, one of my maternal uncles called Ifediana who lived in Kano then, came to Nnewi and saw me. He asked what I was doing; I told him that I dropped from school after class four because of my father’s inability to fund my academics. He requested I travel with him to Kano which I accepted.

 

 

On the day of the trip to Kano, we traveled by train from Enugu. As at that time, travelers to the north from Nnewi usually get to Enugu by road before boarding a train to Kano. The train will get to Kaduna junction before moving to Kano. It takes almost a day and half to complete the journey unlike today that takes lesser time to make the same trip.

 

When I got to Kano, I stayed a while before getting trained on “Typing and Shorthand” for almost a year after which I started job hunt. With the help of one of our townsman that was working for Akal Brothers (A Syrian Firm), I was employed by the company. I started with the company as “Assistant Produce Clerk”(then the Nigeria Government depended on agricultural produce).

 

The bulk of the government revenues as at that time came from Agricultural products. In Kano, they had groundnut, cotton, hides and skin. In the Western region, they had cocoa and rubber while in the Eastern region it was coal and timber. There was good afforestation programme then though you might be right to say that it was not to the level of the Americans that plant new trees in place of the ones that were mowed down, though there was a time in Nigeria when the Federal Government embarked on tree planting.

 

So, at the Akal Brothers, the company was primarily on produce though they equally imported bicycles, sewing machines, bale of clothes etc. However, I was in the Produce Department.  While I was with the company, something remarkable happened. There was a position called Transport Clerk occupied by one Yoruba guy. His job schedule then was to take delivery of the company’s goods brought in by train from the train station.

 

At some point, there was the need for him to go on leave; I was recalled from the Produce Department to the Transport Department to stand in for the guy.  I took over. I was very honest in my duty then unlike in today’s public service where people are no longer honest. Then I always resumed work by 8am by 12pm we go on break, after break we resume again by 2pm till 5pm which was the official closing hour. Unlike today where people are no longer punctual to work.

 

Before I was posted to temporarily hold forth at his duty post, it was not known that whenever he went   to bring back goods from the railway company, he usually conspired with some railway staff and sell off some of the clothing materials which were very expensive and shared the proceeds with the railway staff. Then he would write it off as ‘lost in transit’ and the insurance company will offset the loss. When I came on board, there was a remarkable change. No ‘lost in transit’ which used to be regular was recorded again. The management of the company was very happy and showered me with lots of praises and love.

 

It is important to note that while working there, I hid my identity.  I did not want people to know I was the Crown Prince of Nnewi. Our typist then was from Onitsha who got wind of my identity and confided in the head of the laborers that I was the Crown Prince of Nnewi. Without knowing the full implications of what she did, she gave out my identity. Everybody was amazed then and they all started to respect me which I never wanted. I was promoted when due and got salary increments yearly as a result of my honesty and dedication to duty.

 

One day, one of my uncles, Frederick Iwuchukwu wrote me via a telegram informing me of my father’s ill-health. I informed my manager with the telegram, he gave me permission to be off duty. He said I should stay as long as it would take for my father to fully recover. He assured me that my salary would be sent to me on regular basis.

When I got back to Nnewi, I realized that my father had been transferred to Enugu. I joined him in Enugu.  Throughout the months I took care of my father, my monthly salaries were sent to me in full.

 

However, when my father got a bit better, I wanted to return to Kano. My relatives and other elders in Nnewi refused. Of course, you understand that in Nnewi, unlike what is obtainable in other communities, there is no tussle for kingship. The succession is natural. As the heir apparent, I was asked to stay around in case something happened to my father to avoid creating a vacuum on the throne.

 

After a few months in Nnewi, though I was still receiving my monthly salaries from Kano, I had to write my employers informing them of the decision of my community but the Manager responded asking me not to worry as they were willing to wait until my father fully recovered.  After receiving my salaries for almost a year, I felt it was becoming unconscionable to continue to receive salaries without working for the company especially as it was obvious that I would not be allowed to travel to Kano to resume my work again, I wrote to the company resigning my appointment and requested for my Testimonial from the company to enable me secure another appointment in the Eastern region.

 

The company obliged my request and sent me a wonderful Testimonial with which I secured another job with United Africa Company (UAC). I was employed and worked for some months with UAC before the position was declared redundant and I was relieved of my duties.

 

Then, one of my brothers Mr. M.C.K Ajuluchukwu, the first Journalist from Nnewi who was heading Eastern Nigeria Information Service (ENIS) came to Nnewi one day and saw me. He asked what was happening and I explained the challenges I had. He persuaded me to submit application with ENIS which I did. I was shortlisted and directed to start off immediately. I spent one month in Enugu where I was requested to reactivate the sales of the National Outlook Newspaper. It was a difficult task then because of the fact that a lot of people then did not even know about the National Outlook.

 

 

On the first day I resumed work; by 5 am, I was already at the office with my bicycle but discovered that the clerks who work there were regular late comers. I continued going to office by 5am despite the late resumption of my supporting staff. Whenever I get to the office, I would read all the available papers that were delivered and arrange them in different units for the vendors. Then it was nine copies per shilling. So when the vendors discovered that I resumed early, they started buying National Outlook again. I started with a salary of between 8 to 14 pounds monthly.

 

I worked with ENIS for a long time and had great job satisfaction. At some point, I was transferred from Enugu to Port Harcourt.  From Port Harcourt, I was sent on a relief duty to Onitsha. The guy in Onitsha was told to go and relieve the person in Enugu, the person in Calabar or so was to go and relief me in Portharcourt while I proceeded to Onitsha. When I came to take over in Onitsha I told the clerks to give me the office spare key, which they gave me.

 

In my characteristic manner, I reported to work on the first day by 5am. I was not surprised that nobody was in the office. I entered with the spare keys, I collected the previous day, took time to read the supplied Newspapers and arranged them in units of 9 copies per units for the vendors. Minutes later the vendors started coming. Even people coming to place adverts. I collected monies from them and kept. By the time the other staff came to work by 8 o’clock, I handed them over the proceeds from the newspaper sales and adverts and closed for the day.

 

The vendors that came late did not even see any copies of the newspapers to buy because I had sold out everything. The next day I thought the other staff would emulate me by coming early in the morning, but, their attitude to work didn’t change. The routine continued. At Onitsha, they used to sell only about 500 copies then. But few days of my stay in Onitsha, I requested for the copies of the newspapers to be supplied to be increased from 500 to 1000, later from 1000 to 1,500 and then finally to 2000. The management was surprised.

 

After a short stay in Onitsha, I received a letter directing me to go and establish a National Outlook Newspaper office in Asaba. Then we do cross to Asaba through a place called marine. I was given money to pay for office rent for one year; I paid and sent the receipt back to them at Enugu. I was told to furnish the office which I did and sent the receipts back to Enugu as well. I made efforts and established a functional office in Asaba and was later asked to go back to Onitsha.

 

After my return from Asaba, I received another letter directing me to travel to Benin to establish another office. When I got to Benin, I found an office apartment and I was sent some money with which I paid and furnished the office as well and sent the receipts to the management in Enugu. After Benin, I was also sent to Warri and to Sapele. As a matter of fact, the Management was planning to send me to Ibadan before my father died. That was in 1962.

 

 

On the death of my father, I left the National Outlook Newspaper to travel to Nnewi. The burial ceremonies of my father took one year. On the eve on the conclusion of my father’s burial rites in 1963, M.I Okpara, the then premier of Eastern region was officially informed of the death of my father. He was informed that the King of Nnewi was no more and there would be official presentation of staff of office to his successor.

I was taken to Enugu in a motorcade. When Chief Okpara saw me, he was surprised and said if all the other communities within the Eastern region have the same peaceful succession/transition arrangements like Nnewi that lots of problems would have been avoided. He brought drinks and entertained our people that visited him from Nnewi. After collecting the staff of office, I was led back to Nnewi and crowned Igwe. Since I was restricted from moving around, I became a hostage,(he laughs).

 

 

Every morning as early as 6am I will sit in my court here and be settling all kinds of disputes brought before me by my subjects. By 12pm I will take a lunch break, have a little rest and return by 2pm. After a while, the stress began to take a toll on me. I would be 92 years next year. So I constituted a panel that will help me in handling the disputes. I delegated some of my powers. After a while, people started complaining about the panel, so I set another called “Appeal Panel “where people can challenge the outcome of the first panel. Resolutions in this Palace are hardly upturned by the Courts. On the few occasions our resolutions/recommendations have been challenged in Courts, the Courts have always upheld and commended what we do here.

 

During your reign, Nnewi people have prospered a lot. Excelling in several fields of human endeavours,can you tell us how this was made possible and for the fact that there’s no rancour on who succeeds the Igwe because as it stands today,people already know whom your successor is and even his successor is equally known, all things been equal.

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When I ascended the throne in 1963, I told God that He was the one that made my ascension possible, and that my one and only prayer to Him has been that NNEWI WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE TOWNSHIP IN NIGERIA. I am not looking for any other thing other than to serve my people and see them prosper. I also prayed and vowed that two things which are; money and land would never create enmity between me and anyone. I always make efforts to avoid getting into any personal troubles. My position has always been a selfless service and not authoritarian rule as most people think.

 

 

Before the formation of the town union, I was the one heading the community meetings. We are blessed with 51 wards.  So when there’s any need for financial contributions, levies are shared to all the wards. All the projects we do are levied on our people. Nnewi is the only town in Nnewi North Local Government whereas neighbouring local governments have more than three towns within them. Nnewi South Local Government for example have ten towns, Ekwusigo Local Government four towns.

 

Nnewi is four hands. Otolo is the most senior, followed by Uruagu, Umudim and Nnewichi in that order. In the ratio of sharing things, the seniority is a factor. Otolo is nine, Uruagu seven, Umudim five, Nnewichi four. The shares of Umudim and Nnewichi are usually the share of Otolo. Some asked why is it that it’s only Otolo that produces the King. If you look at it, you will realize that we do not have wisdom more than our forefathers. They put the things in the best suited way. If the kingship stool is to be thrown open for all to contest, who am I? In terms of money, how much do I have? In terms of education, there are several people with PhD, almost every household in Nnewi have a lawyer, we have professors as well. In terms of physical attributes , an ugly person like me? From all indices, I am not even qualified to be the Igwe. I was able to become Igwe because of the way our forefathers instituted the Kingship system. That way other people could not become Igwe even though they would have loved to become Igwe of Nnewi despite the sufferings associated with the kingship.

 

 

Some may think there’s lot of pleasure in being the Igwe, but that is not the case. It has enormous responsibilities. When I came here first, I moved around on foot. All the meetings and functions I attended, I went on foot. I struggled to fend for my family, I farm and do several other things for a living.

 

 

There’s a festival in Nnewi called ‘Ikwu aru’. Ikwuaru is the exhibition of wealth, a very big festival dedicated to a deity called Edo Nnewi. Edo according to them was a beautiful young lady (because I have never seen her) (laughs). Then when she was coming of age just like other young girls, you know in olden days, young girls were nursed and kept in preparation for marriage. For like one year, they are groomed.

 

 

This Edo, a beautiful lady was a subject of dispute among different deities who sought her hand in marriage. Ezemewi the deity was interested in taking her in marriage as well as Omaliko another deity from Abatete were contesting for her hand in marriage. Idemili the deity from Nnobi was the parent of Edo and made it clear that whoever that would marry her would do five things: The person will always ‘kwuru ya aru, Gbalu ya oka, suru ya ezu, esiri ya ebiri ‘.

 

 

Ezemewi the Nnewi deity was ready to do all these. He was the chief deity of Nnewi and Idemili finally gave Edo out to him in marriage. There are other deities like Ana, eze, ele. These are the five deities that owned Nnewi. There was a time we worshipped the deities, I was among the traditional worshippers then. The reason is because before you could become a King, you must worship them and as the king, my kingship is attached to these deities and the traditional religious activities. I am the 15th monarch of Nnewi. Our culture is similar to that of the Binis.

 

We are supposed to be called ‘Iwuchukwu’. Because my grandfather was the son of Iwuchukwu. It was Iwuchukwu that named my father “Orizu”. When he came to the throne, he took Orizu as his official name, when my father took over; he took Orizu II, my grandfather reign started in 1905 that is when white men first came to the Country.

As at then, whenever they (the white-men) entered any community, they met with the King, they asked whether he was for war or peace. If he chose war, they will go to war with the community and kill their King, if they chose peace; they will pass and move to the next town.

 

When they came to Nnewi in 1905, they said they wanted to see the elders. Our delegation of elders went to meet them. When the white men met them, they asked the head of our delegation if he was the ruler of Nnewi, he told them that the King was at home because they were still performing the burial rites of Iwuchukwu his father and he could not leave the palace. The person that led the delegation for Nnewi was Nwosu.

The delegation requested for a postponement of the discussions to enable the Igwe, my grandfather to attend. They agreed and on a later date, my grandfather went with them. When they met him the leader of the white-men, he asked the Igwe if he was the King of Nnewi and he answered in the affirmative. They asked him if he wanted war or peace, he said he wanted peace for Nnewi. He was given a umbrella and staff which I still use today.

 

 

After the talks, the white-men used Nnewi as their base and visited all the neighboring towns. Our (Nnewi) compensation was the erection of a customary court. The court served the purpose of settling traditional disputes. The president of the court was rotated among the chiefs from other towns who served tenure of one month each.

I took Orizu the 3rd. If tomorrow I am no longer here, my son, the Crown Prince as my successor can answer Orizu the 4th or probably choose any name of his choice just as recently done by the new Bini Oba.

 

In your reign you recorded a lot of achievements, in fact you were the first Igbo monarch to abolish the Osu caste system in Igbo land, you have seen a lot as well ,what is your source of strength and inspiration and what has been your greatest challenge as Igwe of Nnewi despite all your achievements these years you have been on the throne?

 

 

Well, there had been challenges but God has been there all along. All one needs is to trust in God. However, the abolition of the Osu caste system in Nnewi is not really my greatest achievement before the clearing of the forest called Agbo Edo, probably you people must have heard of it, the late Emeka Ojukwu who was then the governor of Eastern region wrote me a letter that I should hand over Agbo Edo to be used as centre of development in Nnewi.

 

 

Then people dreaded the ‘Agbo edo’ forest. They do not even go for firewood neither do they go there for anything .That was the reason the forest kept growing and even encroaching on other people’s lands.   I told Ojukwu that it was an onerous task and beyond me because I started hearing about the forest when I was born, nobody had entered there before. This was because the belief then was that anyone who entered the Agbo Edo automatically became an outcast. You know that outcasts in Igbo land are dreaded so much. As a result, free borns do not marry them. If anyone does, automatically the person becomes an outcast.

 

 

The proposal however was that Agbo Edo forest should be cleared and structures which can turn Nnewi into a modern town be put in place. I summoned my lieutenants, the Obis of Nnewichi, Umudim and Uruagu and told them about the request from Ojukwu and asked them if we could give him the land. It was agreed that we should consult the gods through a diviner because then we so much believed in soothsayers.

 

 

The Youth League was informed of the plan that the community needed 100 pounds for the clearing of the Agbo Edo forest. We rallied around and raised the money. We consulted all the deities in Nnewi begging them to allow the Agbo Edo to be cleared.

As at then, our people have started returning from the North due to the pogroms there months before the civil war.  We “pleaded” with Edo to allow us to clear the forest so that the people returning from the North will have where to settle.  We went as far as Arochukwu consulting with the gods before it became possible for clearing work to commence at the Agbo Edo forest. The place that the Nkwo market is situated was occupied by people considered as the Edo outcasts. The supposed outcasts had several offsprings and they were multiplying in numbers. After clearing the forest, we reported back to Ojukwu to tell him that we had finished the clearing work. He said we should site a market around the place. I went to meet with the people referred as “outcasts” who occupied the land to inform them that we wanted to use the land for a market that will benefit everyone. So we entered into an understanding with them where their interests were specifically stated and protected as part of my consensus building in the leadership of the Community.

 

 

So we built the Nkwo market there. With time the supposed “freeborn” started mingling with the so called “outcasts”. As the King of the town and the custodian of the tradition and customs of Nnewi with focus on uniting the entire people of Nnewi as one peaceful and progressive community, I abolished the Osu system. With the abolition, anyone who still believes in it does that on his own.

 

 How do you feel now that Nkwo triangle has been returned back to the people of Nnewi by the State Government especially when you remember the insinuations in certain quarters within the Community?

 

 

Well, when you trust God, you have nothing to bother about. The whole fuss about the Nkwo Triangle I would say were mere local politics. Simply because my son who was elected to the House of Assembly and became a Deputy Speaker wanted a second term but some people did not want him to go back despite the fact that Nzuko Ora Nnewi has it that anyone who performed meritoriously should be supported for a second tenure.

Then some people came up with the rumours that the Igwe has sold off the Nkwo triangle to the former governor Peter Obi. Clear conscience they say fears no accusations. Now it is crystal clear that the Nkwo Triangle was not sold off. The government made it clear. The people that spread the rumours that I sold the place are now ashamed.

 

 

Let me tell you a similar story. When we were clearing Agbo Edo, we told Edo that we would leave some portion of the land for her. The part we left was fenced out for Edo. At a time, it was obvious that the town needed a portion of land as Motor Park. So, I directed that the portion we earlier left for Edo be cleared and turned into a motor park for humans. When the place was being cleared, some people urged Edo to kill Igwe that the land she was given, Igwe has gone to take it.

 

 

Apparently, Edo ignored them because when I have God, there’s nothing Edo or any deity can do. Surprisingly, believing that Edo had granted their request, they took to the Internet and other platforms to announce that I had passed away. Some of my people went to diviners who claimed that they saw Igwe slump and died while coming down from the plane. I was in London then, resting. While in London, at a send forth party organized for me by one of my subjects, a call came to my host from one of my subjects in Nnewi to inform him that I had passed on. My host immediately handed the phone over to me to speak to him and the person became dumbfounded when I spoke with him (laughs). Maybe the person thought he was speaking with a ghost. Two days later, I took a flight down to Lagos. When I arrived at Lagos, I was surprised to see the huge number of people who turned out to receive me. I asked what is happening; they said they have come to welcome me. I asked why today or is today the first time I have arrived Nigeria after such trips in the past. I think they expected to see my dead body but were however surprised to see me still alive. While on the way to Nnewi in a motorcade, in Ichi people were everywhere even members of my cabinet, everyone wanted to see for himself. I rolled down the window of the vehicle I was inside and waved at them debunking the rumours that I was dead. That day became a sort of Ofala itself. By the time we got to the palace, the whole place was jampacked.

 

 

 

Q: Over these 53 years as the Igwe, you had the privilege of having some of your subjects in very sensitive government positions. Like the military governor of old Eastern region,Acting President of Nigeria,Senate president,Deputy governor of Anambra state and then governor for a limited time,and another a Deputy speaker of Anambra House of Assembly,  how then would you feel if one of your subject emerges as a duly elected governor or even president serving a full tenure, how would you feel when such happens in your lifetime?

 

 

Unless someone who doesn’t understand, when you understand that everything as you know is in the hands of God, then everything is achievable. I will be very happy, once God decides to make it a reality. Nnewi people are making serious efforts to have not only a governor but also president. One thing in Nnewi is that when one person is about to rise, some other people will like to pull him or her down but united we stand, divided we fall. This has been our slogan.

 

 

The first people that formed the union called Nnewi Patriotic Association the first ever Union formed in Nnewi is one of the bodies that have immensely been of help to Nnewi. There is also the Youths body, they did well too. That I was able to achieve most of these great things was as a result of efforts and sacrifices of the youths. For instance, the government did not just establish the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital here. When we were still in the old Anambra state, there were plans to merge IMT and the College of Technology. We said, No!

 

 

The Igwes of the old Anambra met and agreed that IMT and the College of Technology be separated. The college will have four campuses, two at the northern side, two at the southern side. Then the ones at the southern side, one at Onitsha area and another at Awka. The Igwes met again during which it was agreed that Igwe Orizu would pay 2 million Naira to be able to bring the campus to Nnewi. It was a lot of money then but I decided to let my subjects know about the development. They agreed on it. Even though the Igwe of Neni wanted to oppose it, he however backed out when he was told of the price I had to pay. Together, we have achieved a lot as a people.

 

 

In essence, I would be very happy if a governor of Anambra State of Nnewi extraction emerges.  It is however unfortunate that we do not have the spirit of togetherness. Everyone wants to make his name heard. Only a few people like Engr Ajulu Uzodike have  been able to do something different. With his establishment of the Cutix Industries and his invitation to the public to partake in the company shares. Since then, industries started springing up but everyone wants his name to ring out loud.  In summary, I look forward to Nnewi producing the Governor of Anambra State and I would be happy if it happens during my lifetime.

 

Q: Thank you very much Your Highness. If you would have any more thing to tell us, we would appreciate that.

My advice is that everyone should stop apportioning blames on one another but instead work for the betterment of all. Once you trust in God, everything is possible.

 

Thanks a lot Your Highness for your time and patience. Thank you also for the privilege granted to us. May Your reign last forever.

Thank you my son.