OSU CASTE SYSTEM IS WAXING STRONG IN NIGERIA AND THE TIME HAS COME TO CONFRONT, COMBAT AND DEFEAT IT

CONFRONTING THE OSU PROBLEM IN NIGERIA.

By Leo Igwe

In Igboland, human beings were born equal in dignity and right. People lived and interacted with one another in the spirit of brotherhood. Everybody was free to reside and relate with others without discrimination. There were no outcasts. There were no untouchables. Nobody lived in a state of permanent social disability. The Igbo society was a casteless society.
 But some centuries ago, things changed. The caste system was introduced. And since then, human rights, dignity and respectability have not been the same again especially for those who belong to the Osu caste. No one knows exactly when this leprous system started.