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Origin of Owu-Amakohia

Amakohia was the original name for Okpuala and Owu before Owu came into existence. Okpuala means the ancestral home of the Amakohias. Okpuala came into being after the six sons of Amakohia decided to build their homes in their father's farmland.

From the present day Amakohia Girl secondary School to Umugama was a farm land known as Nkporo Amakohia. Ekeonumiri Stream separated the two sides of Amakohia.

According to oral history, Amakohia sent his six sons drawn from Odenamgboke and Umuawo to the farm across Ekeonumiri Stream to protect the crops from thieves and wild animals.

While they were trying to demarcate the boundary between the present day Umugama and Umuochamoko in Amuzi Mbaise as directed by their father, they were confronted by some people from Mbaise who asked "Ndia Owu olende" meaning who they are. They answered "Owuamakohia".

Owuamakohia came from an answer to the question, "who are you", put by some Mbaise folks near the border with Umugama. The people responded "Owuamakohia", meaning it is Amakohia. That was how they started calling the Amakohia brothers "Owuamakohia", meaning people from Amakohia.

It is clear from this account that Owu-Amakohia originated from the six sons of Amakohia, three each from Odenamgboke and Umuawo. This corrects the wrongly held belief by so many people that Amakohia had two sons, namely :￼ Okpuala and Owu.

The question : Ndia Owu olende? (Meaning, who are those people), and the answer: Owuamakohia (meaning it is people from Amakohia) gave birth to the name Owu-Amakohia.