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THE EPISTLE This is late Ezechukwu Nwainawo (Boyi). The man that have guided us with stories about reality,although some were fictitious. But during those days I was so tender, I couldn't pay much attention. I could reminisce how we sat and how he was verbally passing the tales but unfortunately for me I wasn't that meticulous and scrupulous. Cos I never knew posterity will take me to kitchen of Literature where we cook, concoct and calligraphically inscript pot-pouris of words with the view to coming up with rhythm and rythme at its finest. I have many a time wished to flashback and grab the clue but when I go for a recall nothing could be retrieved. Ezechukwu Nwainawo was one of the extinct settlers in umuofiagu cum ibule as annals may have it,perhaps not earliest cos few had abode there before him, after the Nigeria civil war after 1970's, He had lived prominently. He wasn't a pagan but was a traditionalist or traditional believer who kept propitiating an

Supposed Saint(St). Pa Louis Eloke! of Umuofiagu Ukehe, of blessed memory. By Literatus Nnamdi Ezeh Kingsley (Ezedu-Ukehe)  In the beginning of time and time imemorial when Oha Umuofiagu (Umuofiagu general assembly) was instituted and established by our forebears. Every member of Umuofiagu belonged to one religion which was traditional religion. Then, Onyeihu Umuofiagu (Eldest man) played double role. He was both the political head or the chairman of council of elders and chief priest of earth deity (Al' Umuofiagu (Ani Umuofiagu), and goddess of water (Iyi okpe Al' (ani). So, when someone becomes the oldest man in Umuofiagu, two major ceremonies are performed.  One, He takes the Arua( the scepter or staff of office and sword of justice) to assume the leadership of government of the village institutionalized in the Oha Umuofiagu (Umuofiagu assembly).  Two, He offers sacrifice to the shrine of Earth  deity and becomes the chief priest of both Earth deity and goddess of water (onu