Book Description

The Eziga community is located between the Uboru and Isuru communities but neither is friendly with it. Eziga had been defeated by both in communal wars and now pays tributes to them as a result. But a warrior has been born in Eziga by the name of Nome Utara and under his leadership; members of Eziga have defeated both Uboru and Isuru in recent wars, thereby setting it free from paying annual tributes to them. Nome Utara instantly becomes a hero and consequently is crowned the King of Eziga. As their King, Nome asks his community to marry a wife for him, build a house, feed and clothe him with all members of his household. His frame, strength and character are such that no human being can muster the courage to challenge him or refuse to carry out his orders. He takes beautiful and fat women and girls by force as his wives or concubines. These women are those whose fathers or mothers are indebted to the King s father or mother in any amount of money. They are condemned to perpetual sexual exploitation by or servitude to the King. He takes his subjects goats, yams and clothes by force for the upkeep of numerous members of his family. The King takes everything he wants, including women, married or not, from his subjects by force and nobody could challenge or stop him. He needs no advice and seeks none from anybody. His life revolves around having marathon sexual intercourse with women and fat girls by force, eating food produced by and seized from his subjects, judging them and executing the judgments. As the King has begun to seize fat and beautiful girls in his community for sexual enjoyment, such girls resort to robing their urine and faeces on their bodies; ashes on their faces or dressing with tattered clothes while going to their farms or to the market to avoid being seized by the King s errand boys. Some of them run away to neighbouring communities to avoid becoming one of the King s numerous wives. The King functions as the executive, legislature and judiciary. He makes laws, judges his people and instantly executes his judgments to which there is no appeal. His sentences include strangulation, dirty slaps, dancing naked round the convict s village, servitude to him or ostracism from Eziga community. Members of the King s cabinet dare not challenge his orders or risk being strangled to death. Hard work and orderliness prevail. There is absolute, even if forced, peace, love and prosperity in Eziga community as no one wanted to be given a dirty slap by the King for his indiscipline. There is so much tranquillity in the community that you would think that tyranny is the best form of government. The King feels threatened by the coming of Christianity into his community as he does not want to share his power with any other being whether called God, Jesus Christ or Holy Spirit. He vows to stop it. To do this, he persecutes Christians and kills many of them. They write a petition to the colonial government against him. The government asks him to hand over the administration of Eziga community to a foreigner but he refuses. The King with his numerous children and servants vow to fight the colonial government to the last drop of their blood in order to retain his governance of his community and save it from falling into the hands of colonial powers thereby desecrating their customs and traditions. They prepare for a war with the colonialists in advance and took down a lot of them during the fighting that ensues subsequently. King Nome Utara and his soldiers are however defeated in the war by the colonial government. He is caught alive but instead of waiting to be sentenced to death by hanging, he fights till his death at the hands of mobile policemen from the police headquarters. Even at death, the awesomeness of late King Nome Utara still pervades Eziga community.