DIBIA NWANGWU UCHENDU

During spiritual consultation, a Dibịa Mgbafa can see that amongst the problem facing a family or lineage is something which afa consultation revealed is connected to ụmụ Ada/ụmụ Ọkpụ that were unhappy, not buried or maltreated. This revelation mentioned them as crucial aspects of their problem or spirits obstructing spiritual and physical progress in families and in individuals. Do not panic for ụmụ ada are the females in your lineages, father’s or mother’s sides that were not given proper burials, some were maltreated in marriage, some went missing during the war, some went into exile because they were banished unjustly and they died, some were sold as slaves, no matter the condition as long as it connotes offending them deliberately or not. The outstanding issue is, they were not given their rights/rites before or after they died! They were not given proper burial. If that happened to any female in your lineage, ụmụ ada issue will always surface in your Afa whether you are the person responsible for their demise or not. The essence is making you know what is spiritually wrong as long as you are spiritually inclined. Moreover, If any male or female of marriageable age get married in another man’s land and ụmụ ada’s rites were not performed for the dead ụmụ ada to collect their share spiritually, ụmụ ada will come after the person because the female member’s of that lineage ate from them or others during their own time and may likely be eating from others till date. However, I will advise the individual to go to their place and appease ụmụ Ada, for them to allow you bear children and have peace in your marriage.

As a man, if ụmụ ada issue comes out during Afa, it means they chose you to pass the message to inform others in your family, you will not participate but you can contribute for their appeasement to be carried out. If ụmụ ada comes out in your matter spiritually, whether you are a man or woman, you cannot have a peaceful home, some cannot marry, some cannot have children, some will have loads of difficulty in their businesses, some lose jobs or remain unemployed. Please, if you do not believe in tradition or spirituality, keep praying for your spiritual afflictions of ụmụ ada and others, to abate. Sometimes, when Nwada’s burial is done in her husband’s place and some burial rite is not done in her own father’s house, it brings spiritual backlash. It is likely that her spirit will trouble members of her father’s family. This is as a result of not acknowledging her demise properly before being buried, especially at her own father’s side, no matter how small, some burial rites or items must be bought and performed in her father’s compound before proceeding back to her own husband’s compound to finalize her burial.

The Spiritual Appeasement of Nwada:

Any Nwa Ada that was killed unjustly is akin to a time bomb waiting to explode in the face of that family. Some family have this as a spiritual problem. Killing or maltreating nwada unjustly is a huge abomination as the spirit of that “Nwada” will torment them endlessly. This is because in igbo land, a good nwada is highly respected, a sacred human that entire spirit guides in Igbo land do not joke with them. Though the spirit guides listen to the ụmụnna or dịọkpa who uphold the spiritual symbol of authority in the family physically, but nwada or umuada has the authority to counter it spiritually and physically especially when the cause or judgement is unjust. Every igbo need to understand the spiritual import and how powerful umuada or nwada are. Any individual that have problem with their ụmụnna or fight with them as the case maybe, if you have the strength, they are likely to fine or ostracize that person but when it comes to having any problem with umuada or umuokpu, you are done for. It is better to avoid any problem with them else they will use their physical and spiritual matriarchal authority to superimpose their decision upon such defaulter. Nwada in Igboland cannot be killed or sold as a slave. Any sane man born of a woman cannot maltreat them physically or spiritually without hearing from the Gods. Especially, Ndi Egede, Ndị Ichie, Ogwugwu and her fellow Umuokpu. Some umuada have spiritual connection with Akwali Ọmụmụ, Ajana, Arobunagu therefore any offended will be at the receiving end of these spiritual entities. However, it is likely the person attribute the problem to something else not, knowing it is as a result of Nwada issues. Blindly, an individual might be appeasing other spirits but it takes a good dibịa mgbafa to unravel the history and cause of the Nwada issues emanating from your forefathers. Either Nwada was maltreated and she died out of agony, the anger will be kindled on that family or kindred till her spirit is appeased. Sometimes, Nwada in the realm of the spirit will seek for protection and vengeance amongst her spirit guides, her spirit guides will take up her grievances and come to that family to dig a hole spiritually, they will begin to torment, kill, retrogress, steal and cause mayhem in such families till the situation is remedied.

Most men who are prone to domestic violence usually maltreat or beat their wives to death are prone to be is such situation. Their brothers or kinsmen will keep calm without doing anything either to save the Nwada or appease her spirit before traditional burial. They will callously bury her with her blood in their hands, that blood will rise in the spirit realm and cry for vengeance. Blood is very sacred in Igbo Culture and Traditions. That blood will rise seasonally and block the progress of such family. Some Nwada will go as far as killing them in that family, every year somebody must die. Sometimes that Nwada will not go to her husband’s house spiritually to show her anger but she will always come to her father’s family to show her anger. Picture this scenario, a woman’s children can be maltreating their mother by not taking care of her upkeep, feeding her well or take care of her when sick, the brothers to the woman will send them a message that if anything happens to their sister, which is the person’s mother, you will hear from them. Eventually, if the woman dies while being maltreated, the woman’s brothers or uncles will come carry her corpse. The reason is they want to get justice for their Nwada, to avoid the spiritual backlash surfacing in their own families or in Afa in future. . An aggrieved Nwada is relentless and ruthless in the spiritual realm. Though she might not disturb and avenge her death towards her own husband’s family but she will not spare her own father’s family.

The Appeasement.

This is usually carried out on afọ day. The family of that Nwada will contribute money. Normally, the entire kindred is involved so every son that make up the various families in that kindred must contribute money that will be used to purchase the spiritual materials for the appeasement ritual of the Nwada. The entire daughters from that kindred MUST be present. A female dibia from another kindred or town is needed to oversee the processes. She must be pure Dibịa Ọdịnanị Igbo to carry out the appeasement and cleansing rituals. Emphasis is on pure Dibịa nwanyị Igbo to avoid doing the wrong thing or bringing in a charlatan who is not competent to handle this as a very sensitive, sacred part of ọdịnanị Igbo. If, there are great dibias in that kindred, they are not the ones to carry out the appeasement rites and rituals except they have done “Ị gbalu íshí onwe ha” before their own Ndị Ichie.

Ị gbalu Ishi Onwe:
This simply means removing self or head from the atrocity committed against Nwada. It is applicable when elders who are supposed to mobilize and arrange for the appeasement and cleansing are church goers or christians professing the blood of Jboy blindly, at same time, they are degrading and denouncing traditional ways of Igbo society. These set of hypocritical elders prefer to go to a church and meet a Christian prophetess and do I gbalu ishi onwe ritual for the anger of Nwada to be removed from them and immediate family.