Akuku
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THE ALTERNATE NAMES OF AKUKU COMMUNITY
1) LAND OF SPRING WATER
Akuku community is been called the land of spring water because they have about 4 different spring water which the source is from the hills and the water can serve them for numbers of years even if there is no rain fall,the water never dry
2) THE GREAT WAR COMMUNITY
They call them the great war community because they had fought severals of war with different communities which they returned home with Victory
3)THE GREAT HUNTERS
They are been called the great hunters bcaus they choose hunting as their hobby,they can journey as far s 100 miles to hunt for animals
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THE LOCATION OF AKUKU COMMUNITY
The history of Akuku Community the land of spring water, it aboriginals by Hon J. A Otaru and S, l. Joseph wrote a well elaborated origin of Akuku Community, tracing it to the reign of Oba Ewuare I in the 14th century , when he lost two (2) of his children in mysterious circumstances . Thereafter he introduced the use of tattoos for every bini emigrant before they are permitted to leave the kingdom as a sign of easy identification as original natives.
Two (2) great hunters who were equally blood-brothers migrated from Uselu in Benin Kingdom with some of their kiths and kin Osaeni (Osei) and Ekhor (Eshar) which in the previous material were recorded as Oso and Eka.
They fled Benin thought Obiaruko near Akwukwu in the present Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State of Nigeria and later Abraka in the same Delta State of Nigeria. They departed from there and migrated by Niger River through Aganebode into Idah from there the colonial Master reported that they migrated into their present location. Inwich they share boundary between three (3) community in AKOKO EDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE,NIGERIA namely...
1) ENWAN COMMUNITY
2) OJIRAMI DAM COMMUNITY
3) SOMORIKA COMMUNITY
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