In traditional African societies, justice should be based on purity, sacredness, and moral principles rather than age or traditional authority, as demonstrated when a community challenges corrupt elders who abuse power and denies rights to vulnerable individuals like widows.
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The SacredAdded:
In Umuala land, power does not belong to age.
It belongs to purity, justice, and sacredness.
In Umuala land, power does not belong to age.
It belongs to purity, sacredness, and justice.
Justice in Umuala land.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> No, doctor.
>> What's wrong with you?
What is your problem now?
>> Don't you know that you are my bonafide and the traditional right? If your husband is no more, I supposed to be there. It's my right to inherit you. Go and ask questions. Don't you know that?
Yeah.
>> I have told you I don't want this, okay?
>> Meaning?
>> Stop disturbing me.
>> Who will I disturb?
You are my own now.
>> Hey, see, if you dare touch me, huh? I will tell the whole community that you want to rape me.
>> Rape you?
>> Respect yourself, oh.
>> Go and ask questions.
>> No, doctor, respect yourself, oh. Hey, Juju, Juju. yourself, oh.
>> Ask questions. Now that your husband is no more, I have the traditional right.
>> Yeah. No, no, no.
If you dare touch me again, eh, I will tell the whole community that you want to rape me.
>> Rape you?
>> Respect yourself.
>> Go and ask question.
>> No, no, no. Respect yourself. Oh.
>> Hey, Juju, Juju.
>> Respect yourself.
>> Ask question.
Okay.
No wonder. So, you prefer these small, small boys. You are going to give this thing that belongs to me traditionally.
I have warned you. Go and ask questions.
You will see me.
>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Enough is enough.
Enough is enough.
There are the ones I will tolerate and there are the ones I will not.
I can't tolerate any noises again.
From ordinary a woman.
An idiot.
Who don't even know the culture and the tradition of our land.
The girl I want to have.
Who Who is sure if she's not the one who killed my brother?
To come and inherit land.
>> Don't call me neighbor.
>> So, you don't have respect. You are calling a titled person. You are That is even the worst greeting. Why you should leave this community.
The culture did not permit you to have any place in this land. Hence, you have no male child. Also, my wife gave birth to my own son. And that is his property.
>> If I see you here again If I If I you in this land again If I see you in this land again >> You have no right in this land again.
It is when you inherit me that you have a name in this land. According to the culture and tradition of our land.
If you don't know know it now. And if I see you here again >> Hey!
>> Hey!
>> Then I come.
idiot >> Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
>> Do me very small thing. Just give me small thing.
>> Hey!
>> Hey!
Hey! What are you going to buy?
I see where you going to buy.
>> I'm going to buy over there.
>> [screaming] >> Hey!
I'm going to buy over Hey!
>> Hey! What are you going to buy?
>> Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
>> Hey! Go >> [screaming] >> and buy over there. That is the way mature woman. You are a stranger. You are not from here. You don't have to go to your land. Tell your mother that we don't need you. That you are useless in this community. You don't have a male child.
>> [music] >> I am only thing that can give you a right in this place. Go and ask them.
>> Hey!
>> Go and buy.
>> [music] >> Go and buy very small thing.
Get out.
Get out of >> [music] >> This widow here is my brother's wife.
According to culture and the tradition she don't have any right to drag land with me.
>> My husband is dead. Yes.
But I have children.
If this man take that land what will I use to train my children?
Is it not my right to remarry or stay single if my husband died?
>> The justice the age could not give us we have found in sacredness.
The justice that age could not give us we have found it in purity. Justice is just.
It is sacred and pure.
>> [music] >> Chief Nnadozie, we have listened quietly and the truth has no wrinkles, especially when spoken carefully.
We do not want to see you in that land again.
Else you shall die.
And as for the widow, it is her choice if she wants to remarry or not, be it with you or your other brothers.
Or she can choose to stay a widow forever.
>> Justice that age could not give us we have found it in sacredness.
The justice that age could not give us we found it in purity.
Justice is just.
It is sacred and pure.
This is nonsense.
This is nonsense.
This is the height of injustice I've ever seen since my lifetime.
You people are telling me what to do.
You bunch of fools.
Idiots. You are telling me how to rule my family. Do you know my age?
In the first instance I'm the one who is causing this to come and answer this call.
You can't.
Idiots.
>> [screaming] >> And for you, just come and go back to that farm.
Go to that farm or any land there again.
Just try it.
And for you people, or else Okay, let's see who who is who in this community here.
Blood is full.
>> [music] [music] >> We are just messengers.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> The spirit speaks to me now you are on your way.
>> I don't understand this.
>> You speak in parable.
I hope you'll be ready to face the other.
The sacred sign of our our land.
>> A Abar is the one you see.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
>> The symbol represents covenant.
The power was given to three of them.
A day is a is a mouthpiece.
Others messengers.
>> Uh there is nothing I cannot do.
I understand everything. I will do everything perfectly well.
Huh?
Please, I'll handle the situation.
>> [music] >> Uh Abar is the one. Let me be going.
Huh?
Uh you you you you you you will see what I'll do.
>> [music] >> I see innocent children [music] collapse on the road.
Innocent parents crying in pain, agony.
>> We must not watch the gods destroy what they gave us.
We must fight.
>> Begin it.
>> Yes. We understand that we have to fight.
But we cannot fight for the owners of the war.
>> We are finished.
Calamity has befallen us. I'm just coming [music] from the messenger's court. All the messengers are dead, including my messenger. We should go and check what's wrong with What's going on?
I'm I'm really confused. We should go and check.
>> Go.
The work is divided.
>> [music] >> The generations are different.
All hands must be on deck.
Else what happened to the past generation?
No.
>> [music] >> It is our duty to maintain justice, >> [music] >> purity, and sacredness in our father's land.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> No.
>> [music] >> This is ritual sabotage.
>> [music] >> Evil cannot reign in this generation.
>> Bye-bye-bye.
Bye-bye-bye. Adesuwa.
>> [music] >> Adesuwa.
Oh, I thought you were disturbing me.
No, you did not.
I was just dreaming.
And I saw red sap drip from the tree.
The villagers were screaming.
>> That means the cult has offended the gods.
>> Be careful of what you say before you bring calamity [music] upon yourself.
>> I'm sorry if I sounded offensive.
I just come to know what is going on.
>> Go now.
>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Touch.
>> If you touch any child in this community again, your blood and that of your generation will be used for cleansing.
>> Yeah, are you talking to me like that?
So, you are talking to me like that?
A chief, a high chief, not even a not even a an ordinary chief. You are talking to me. Look, let me warn you.
I want you to have it today that when a child is not grown to a certain level or up to a certain standard, and you start asking for what killed your father. I am telling you today that what killed your father will surely kill you.
So, I want you to let it enter into your skull today.
Do I make myself clear? Before I close my eyes and open it, you have disappeared or run away or flew away from this place.
>> Run.
>> Just try it one more time and you will see.
>> There?
Oh, oh, oh, [laughter] oh.
Because you people go and gather small charms. Muo agịmege charm of disappearing charm and reappearing. Muo.
I must surely tell you that before you are born into this community, I have started going to see native doctors, tougher ones. You are just beginning.
Okay. Don't worry, you will see me.
These children It's like these children are going beyond us.
The gods of our land.
>> [music] >> Since the generation of Nnayioba's Reba.
>> [music] >> To the time of Nnayiobuodado.
This is my first time of seeing where the children are giving orders to elders, changing our cultures and traditions, trying to destroy what hold us together.
They no longer listen to the elders of the land.
Please.
I don't want this to happen in our own time.
>> [music] >> Strike them, any of them.
Hey!
>> [music] [music] [music] >> Daddy.
Daddy.
I thought that you people are going around this village telling everybody that you people stand for justice and the purity.
>> You are correct.
>> I want to know where is the purity now?
Do you know that I saw Adeze and Obinna in the bush making love all of them naked.
I see them all of them naked in the motor. [music] Hey!
Where is the justice I'm asking you?
Terry Where is the Where is the purity you people are talking about preaching all over?
Anyway, this is a >> [music] >> This is a girl destiny has kept for eight years.
Now, where is the Where is the purity you people are talking about?
Where is the purity you people are teaching?
I will not take this one. I must make sure that I announce this to all the Say no [snorts] more. Why?
I will make sure and kill that fool myself. You better But if you don't, I will make sure I kill myself.
Not even killing, destroy her.
Hey!
>> [music] [music] >> Say the truth or destroy the both of you.
Now, those are the two that he saw the both of you making out in the bush.
>> The truth has no corners.
I don't even know what you're saying.
I would not do such a thing nor will I ever think of doing it.
>> See, >> [music] >> listen.
I cannot do it. You know I will not do it. It cannot happen. Not now, not even in the next world. It will not happen.
Lies.
>> Terry, stop.
No.
It was revealed to me that Nnadozie was lying.
>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> You know that I saw Adazi and Obinna in the bush making love.
All of them naked.
I see them all of them naked both of Hey!
Where is the justice I'm asking you?
Terry, where is the where is the charity people are talking about, preaching all over?
Who myself? Hey!
This is only remedy.
This is the only remedy. If not, I am going to announce it.
Not even killing, destroy her.
Hey!
I thought you would say that you have sex.
>> [laughter] >> I was nothing but to see us fail.
He lied to you because he is not happy with us. Because he is not happy with us.
You can't just believe what you hear.
But what you see.
We must stand together to make sure his plans didn't work.
We fight together.
Okay?
Let's stay in unity and fight him.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> It's the wrong flight from the cost of the grain.
>> Is it wine?
I'm ordering the wine.
>> It's the wrong flight from the cost of the grain.
>> Okay.
I'm ordering the wine.
>> Oh, [laughter] more than a cup.
>> Mhm.
>> I'm walking on a tightrope.
>> I would have said why.
>> I'm warning >> [music] [music] >> I would have said why.
>> I'm warning >> Hey, keep up.
I would have said why.
>> [music] >> I would have said why.
>> The why?
By the time you finish your work >> [laughter] >> Let me see how these small boys and girls will be giving order in this community.
Telling us what to do and what not to do in our land and in my own Not when I'm still alive.
I will not do Keep on.
Small boys giving order.
>> [music] [music] >> Leave my shrine right now.
Leave my shrine [screaming] and never return.
>> I would have said why.
>> I said leave.
>> I would have left.
>> Leave my shrine now.
>> I would have >> Leave.
>> I would have said why.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> That woman is strong.
>> [panting] >> That woman is powerful.
No matter how powerful she is, we still defeated her.
Wake up. Wake up.
>> [sighs] >> Thank the gods.
I believe that when all the evil elders see him, they shall confess and judge him of their corruption freely at night.
Even our young girls will not fear of being raped when they go to farm.
Our innocent men will not fear of being killed or [music] taking their beautiful wives.
Then others will >> [music] >> that power without truth destroys itself.
Our king will believe that truth does not lay in the mouth of elders, rather in the in the mouth of those that want to speak it.
>> [music] >> Mhm.
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