The international President
of Jewish Voice Ministries, Rabbi Jonathan Bernis, announced that the result
of saliva samples taken in Nnewi had shown that the Igbo were not Jews.
The high expectations of
members of the Redeemed Israel Community of Nazarene Association (RICON) on a
possible ancestral link between Igbo and Jews have been dashed.
Members of the group had
gathered at Uruagu-Nnewi to collect what would be the confirmation/
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test result of Ndigbo’s claims that Igbo are
descent of Israel got to the venue as early as 9.00am on Saturday for a result
that was to reshape the relationship of Igbo and Israel.
Rabbi Bernis who read the
report from a laboratory based in Houston, Texas, the United States of America
(USA) said that the result of the samples taken from Nigeria randomly on some
people in Igboland bear no semblance with the ones in the data base of the
laboratory.
The Israeli in company of
three of his compatriots said that none of the 124 specimen taken from Nigeria
matched the samples in the Houston laboratory which has 17 years’ experience
in DNA business.
He however said that the
result does not rule out the claim of Igbo to Israeli descent as more research
would still be made to authenticate the claims.
The President of RICON,
Bishop Ignatius Orizu (JP) while commenting on the DNA result said that the
result would not deter the organisation from continuing to research into the
claimed descent of the Igbo from Israel.
He pointed out that the
tradition, religion and culture of the Igbo long before the arrival of the
missionaries have great semblance with that of the Israelis.
Bishop Orizu who said that
there are many books in circulation that collaborated the claim of Igbo to
Israeli decency however urged the congregation not to lose hope as science is
always in the business of discovery and recovery.
He appealed to the Federal
Government to recognise the Jews in Nigeria and proclaim Yaweh’s Feast of
Passover, trumpets, atonements, tabernacles among others as public holidays as
approved for Christians and Muslems during Christmas, New Year and Easter.
Saliva samples were
collected from Igbo community for Y25, DNA test on February 6 and 7, 2017 at
Nnewi, Anambra State.
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