ORIGIN OF IGBO RACE

Team of Igbo Researchers Confirms Umueri Town as the Ancestral Home Of Igbos
A team of Researchers from Cornerstone University owerri, who are on fact finding mission has confirms Umueri community, formerly, formerly known as Umuleri in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State, south east, Nigeria as the nexus of Igbo origin. The team led by Dr. Chinedu Ozims who stormed the ancient community on Saturday August 12, 2017 on second leg of their visit to the kingdom with a view of unlocking the secret of the origin of igbo people (tribe).
Earlier, during the first visit, a fortnight ago  this group of researchers made up of Academicians, Theologians and Scholars led by Dr. Chinedu Ozims, after an extensive discussion with the people of the community on possible ways of assisting the team by furnishing them with accurate and unhindered truth about the origin of Igbo people were able convinced beyond all historical proof that Umueri holds the truth towards unlocking the real and untainted history of Igbo origin and that  all Igbos can trace their ancestral home  from the ancient town founded by  Children of Eri, the son of Gad, a direct son of Jacob who is founder of the tribe of Israel. The Researcher gathered for the first time that the settlers who founded the commununity were led by a man known as Dabarwo, against all the widespread fallacy that it was Eri that led the settlers into Africa, where they finally settled in Umueri, Anambra East L.G.A of the state.
The people of Umueri, however, in their immeasurable sense of hospitality and peace, accorded warm reception to their guests from the Cornerstone University of Theology. As a people who hold dear to their tradition custom and culture of Igbo tribe, as “Isiigbo” especially, their biblical history as progenitor of Igbo-Jews, sons of Eri son of Gad the seventh son of Jacob, assured the team on a fact finding mission to their community of maximum support in the propagation of their uncommon history in Africa, Nigeria and the Igbo ethnic nationality.
The team of researchers was taken to some prominent traditional rulers of the community including Crown Prince Chikwuma Okoye, the crown-prince of Umueri who had earlier, during an interface with the visiting team, said that Umueri community is peace loving community, whose hospitality is second to none among communities in the south-east geopolitical zone of Nigeria and beyond.
The Crown Prince noted that evidences abound for even a blind person to affirm that Umueri people are the Aboriginal Igbos from whom other nations of Igbo race originated but have for years suffered undue infiltration and threats of obliteration from their own brothers and now a neighboring community of people living in the geographical location, their ancestors named as Agu-Eri (Eri farmland) The Crown Prince stated originally the Igbo's are not ruled by any King.
Praying at the synagogue (holy temple) in Umueri, Dr Ozims prayed for peace and forgiveness to reign supreme among Igbo people. The crown prince commended Dr Ozims and his team for being the second to enter the synagogue after Nnamdi Kanu the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader
Unarguably though, the fact-finding mission to Umueri community, was fashioned to investigate by research method on the biblical Eri, in order to know more about his children and others who settled with him at the banks of the river Omambala, and in order also, for the  team to know the exact cradle of Igbo tribe, as well as for Dr. Chinedu Ozims to be guided properly, as he puts finishing touches on the yet-to- be published book, precisely, with the theme, understanding the geology of Igbo people. But, the researcher, never, relented, as he worked with information sourced from other researcher and journalists, who went visited Aguleri to have a firsthand information from from the neighboring Aguleri communities. These team also were received by Igwe chukwuemeka Eri, and Eze-Elect, B.I llochi both of Aguleri communities. The people of Aguleri, no doubt, in their oral tradition contradicted the bible account of the death and burial of Gad, 7th son of Jacob
Dr Ozims, having clearly given the accurate report of the death of Gad, father of Eri, as one who died and was buried in Egypt before the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, the Aguleri monarchs and people continue to claim that the biblical Gad was buried at their home stead in Aguleri. In fact, this is the crux of the findings to convince all and sundry, including non-Igbos that, Umueri, maintains original traces of the Igbo-jew lineage ancestrally.
It was also, made clear by the Dr. Ozims missionary team during a lecture series with people of Umueri, that, both Gad and his son Eri, died and were buried in Egypt, they never stepped their feet in the Biafra-Igbo nation, rather, bible research indicate that, the children of Eri were brought to the Eastern Nigeria, at the banks of the river, Omambala through a descendant of Eri called,  Dabarwo.
Dr Chinedu Ozims cautioned other theologians and researchers who went about feeding the Igbos with fallacious and baseless teaching that Gad was buried in Aguleri. He advised them to use the holy Bible as their base and foundation, because no other book recorded and gave account of the lost tribe than the Holy Book  he stated that no place  the Bible recorded any pre-Exodus of anybody before the Exodus. “Any Theologian, Archaeologist or Researcher” who claimed that Gad was buried in Aguleri is a pathological liar, a shame and an insult to the perfect Holy Book and Christianity in general.
Archeological reports made available to the team of theologians under the team-leader, Dr. Ozims gave useful insight in the quest by the team in unlocking the secrets of the origin of Igbo people.
The account of Umueri oral traditional values and her history of origin made the team of researchers reflect more tactfully on their findings that, Umueri, are an ancient town and city in Anambra state of the south East, Nigeria. The community was homogeneously of Igbo ethnic group, located at the heart of Omambala valley, bordered by Omambala river and  Anam communities in the north, Nteje in the south, Aguleri and Nando in the eastern flank, and Nsugbe at the west.
It was the oldest human settlement established by early Igbo founders, as well as the earliest human settlement east of the Niger.
Dr Ozims and his team confirmed that the deities found in Umueri are older than deities found in any other Igbo land. During his visit to “OBU-GA” at Nnenyi, Dr Ozims questioned the Igwe- in- council about the origin of Nnenyi and the president general of Nnenyi said that  Nnenyi people are the descendants of Eri.  The historical origin of the community dates back to available oral tradition passed from generation to generation, indicating that the fleeing Israelites of post Exodus era, settled at Omambala river bank and founded a clan called “Umueri (which means-sons of ERI)”. Their hospitality and warm welcome was like that of Abraham to the three angels, which show that Umueri are truly of the Jews.
 Based on his research, the Biblical descendant of ‘Eri the son of Gad’ migrated into the community, which is known today, as “Umueri”
Dr Ozims stated that the tribe of Gad who lived in the eastern Jordan,during the Assyrian war migrated to Ethiopia travelled through Sudan and down to West Africa through River Nile and landed at the bank of OMABALA RIVER .
The settlers seeing that it was a very huge river christened it “Omo-mbala” implying a very huge river. It was therefore named Omambala, not until, it was later tagged “Anambra” by Gen. Murtala M ohammed’s military regime on creation of old Anambra state in 1976.