OLANMA: WHY NOW?

"Your majesty, may your reign be long." Arinze, one of the chiefs said. "It is a very unfortunate happening. We are all shocked that our princess has been taken. Adaku cannot tell us who the men were and Ikuku the priest is yet to hear the voice of the gods. Your majesty, in all my years in this village and even to the days of my fathers and their fathers before them, nothing of such has happened. We are peace loving people and have never had dispute with neighbouring communities. Who would have done this and why?" He ended and took his sit.

Arinze had served in the court of the King's father. He is regarded as the wisest man in the village because of his age and experience. He had suspected that something must be unique about the princess and he wanted the king to provide an answer before their sons be sent for war.