User:Ikhin Clan

Ikhin Clan is an agrarian community in Owan East Ikhin Clan is an agrarian community in Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State.

Ikhin people are proud of their ancestry and heritage. The people are positive in outlook, creative and hard working.

According to history Ikhin migrated   from the  ancient Bini Kingdom.

As an agrarian community, her land bring forth a  variety of fruits ranging from mango, orange, grape, pineapple, guava, cashew, banana, plantain, black pear, avocado pear, lime to walnut and even more. Cassava, yam, cocoa yam, sweet potato, pepper, okra and cocoa are some of its farm produces.

Ikhin is the food basket of Owan.

ORIGIN

According to oral narration, Ekpenga, a powerful and traditional man is the founder of Ikhin.

Ekpenga rebelled against his father, Oba Ewuare;  a warrior, conqueror and slave trader.

Many of Oba Ewuare's children were displeased  with him because of his atrocious slave trading, this led several of them to rebelliously migrate from within his domain.

Ekpenga thus migrated from Bini and from his father and settled in Ifon.

While at Ifon, the Yorubas wondered at the kind of people they were. They were intrigued by their language and intonation.

So whenever they are asked who they were and as a form of introduction, Ekpenga would say Edo-mikhin (I'm an Edo Man)

The Yorubas latter started calling them the "Mikhin" people.

Therefore Ikhin as a name is a coinage from "Mikhin"

Ekpenga had a desire to conquer and take over the land of Ifon. He resorted to diabolism in trying to eliminate all male Ifon children who could wage war against him in the future.

Ekpenga would cut a bunch of palm fruits and place it at the branch of an *Abada* tree.

Whenever any fruit gets ripened and drops down, a male child would die at Ifon.

This continued for sometime until Ifon people discovered that Ekpenga was responsible for their misfortunes.

They had no choice than to compel him to vacate their land.

He was ejected along side his descendants. He died in the process.

At his death, the people now known as Ikhin settled at a place known as "Uhumoe"

Uhumoe is a location between Uroe and Erue.

Ikhin left that location in search of good vegetation.

It would interest you to know that this present Ikhin location was the place they first settled at.

They however left to another location known as Ugbora because of the outbreak of mysterious diseases.

In their quest to for security and defense against kidnappers who were sneaking in on them from Ikpele, (A community in Ondo State) they also  left Ugbora for Ugbomete.

The major reason for settling at Ugbomete was solely for self defence. Because of the sloppiness of the terrain they could build up rocks and push them against external invaders.

At this period, the great Esezobor aka Bamboo was the king.

He was a great man, a blacksmith and he earnestly desired that Ikhin should come down from Ugbomete to this present site.

The people however rejected his plans and decided to remain at Ugbomete.

Esezobor however used power and wisdom to bring them down.

He hired the likes of Atalegbe; mercenaries from Okpuje. They were fierce and ferocious as hungry lions and could devour any dissenting voice.

Bamboo invited  some white men to come to this present location to judge a fictitious matter.

He therefore called Ikhin men at Ugbomete to come down to meet the white men.

While the men came down, Atalegbe and his band of mercenaries began to set the huts at Ugbomete on fire. The women cried but couldn't help. Everything they had got burnt.

The men that were down could see fire burning at Ugbomete but any one who made attempt to go and fight the fire was forced down by men hired by the King

This is how they finally came down to this present location again.

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