The Ancient and Modern Era Of the Benin Kingdom 35

The name of emokpagbe's wife was emokpolo she was of great spiritual assistance to him, the name of river igbaghon in modern time is jemison river.

During the reign of oba ozolua who ruled benin from obout 1481 on ward, benin was faceed with a lot of rebellion both from within and outside. Among the arrow heads of these rebellion were ise of utekon and elehikidi of ogbelaka.

Elehikidi always trouble the oba with his antics and was a strong juju man. the oba devised a means of eliminating him by using a member of his household to sabotage him. The oba sent his daughter imagbogho to bribe elehikidi's wife eyowo so as to betray him.

Imagbogh gained access into elehikidi's house under false pretex of selling akara. She succeeded in bribing eyowo with a necklace. Eyowo exposed her husband weak points to his enemies and he was killed in a battle.

Ozolua then married eyowo. As time went on her loyalty was in doubt. So ozo"lua had her murdered thinking she will aslo betray him as her did to her former husband elehikidi. From then on, the popular saying came into use ERIOGHA YEMWEN NO OZOLUA YA GBE EYOWO.