​IZHIANGBO, NOT EZZAMGBO: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

This is not a debate.

This is not an opinion.

This is not a suggestion.

It is IZHIANGBO, not Ezzamgbo—and the continued misuse of our name is a historical injustice that must end now.

For decades, our identity has been mispronounced and misspelled, not by our ancestors, but by colonial administrators who neither understood our language nor respected our culture. That single colonial error has since been repeated, normalized, and institutionalized by governments, agencies, publications, and digital platforms—while our people watched in painful silence.

That silence has cost us dearly.

The wrong name has damaged our image, confused our identity, and weakened our cultural presence, especially among our brothers and sisters in other states and in the diaspora. A people without a name correctly spoken is a people slowly erased.

Some say, “It is too late. Everyone already uses it—even government and Google.”

We reject that defeatist lie.

Our ancestors warned us: “Ife ojo gba afa oburu omenala.”

When an evil practice lasts long, it begins to look like tradition. But no matter how long a lie lives, it remains a lie.

The time to correct this injustice is NOW.

This struggle demands collective action—both from non-state actors and state actors—and history will judge anyone who chooses convenience over truth.

Pressure groups, diaspora associations, unions, cultural bodies, activists, journalists, and writers must rise immediately, let’s insist on the correct name in all publications, Challenge media houses, institutions, and digital platforms and educate our people and the world: IZHIANGBO is the only correct name.

Silence is no longer an option.

Councillors representing the Izhia and Ngbo wards must urgently sponsor motions to correct the name in all Ohaukwu LGA official records.

Members of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly must legislate the correction at the state level without delay.

At the federal level, lawmakers—where Barr. Tman must play a decisive role, once we elect him in 2027— He would push for national recognition, ensuring federal institutions, international records, and global platforms like Google permanently abandon the wrong name.

If we continue to say, “We know it is wrong, but nothing can be done,” then we are actively participating in our own erasure.

A day will come when future generations will not even know that Ezzamgbo was a mistake. Our true name—Izhiangbo—along with our history, culture, and identity, will disappear.

That must not happen.

This is a fight for truth.

This is a fight for identity.

This is a fight for history.

This is a fight to elect Tman for our history to be sustained.

And every generation is judged by the injustices it chose to correct—or to tolerate.

Say it. Write it. Defend it.

IZHIANGBO

#Tmaniscoming

#IDU