okpamin was a farmer, during his farming expendition he meet a migrant who identified himself as a prince of Benin kindom, amongst the people he met, AKPOMOWOMA, the father of ORORUAH, they all went and settled at UAKHA, ororuah stayed with them for some time, got married and his wife became pregnant, when okpamen visited his cousin ABAZUA, he met ororuah's wife under labour he adviced that the wife should be removed from UAKHA immediately to IREGBE or else the baby will die when she got to IREGBE, woods that were used to dry leopard meat were used to set up fire to keep ORORUAH'Swife worm,she went into labour and gave birth to a male child named ORA -EKPEN meaning (LEOPARD).
IREGBE is significant in ora history because it was the place OKPAMEN and UGUAN settled, EKPEN latered went back to Benin to inherit the obaship as he was the next in line to ascend the throne.
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Wow... there are so many sides to this culture...this is an interesting side too. But how can we know the exact and correct one?
But this culture keeps teaching us so much daily. Thanks for sharing
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