Much may never have been heard or written
about Awube stream in Ipole Ugbugbu Owukpa,
Ogbadibo local government Area of Benue State,
but the stream, according to the people is their
major source of livelihood.

A community that has existed since over three-
hundred years ago has had its existence tied to
the mysterious Awube stream. The River, to an
average Ugbugbu person, is second to God as it
is the only source of water in the small
community.

One thing about the stream is that the people
bath and wash inside it, yet they drink and cook
with it. Every Ugbugbu bred drinks the water that
can ordinarily be termed unhygienic. There is
usually no method of eliminating likely germs as
the water is drank just the way it is fetched.

It is
strange for an Ugbugbu bred to boil the water
fetched from Awube stream before drinking. Yet,
no known water-related disease or sickness has
been recorded in the community despite the fact
that the people freely use the water.

The stream that flows from Amala in Enugu State
through Eke-Akpa does not dry up at any point in
time. It flows throughout the year in defiance of
seasonal variation. In Ugbugbu, Awube is divided
into two sections – the up section ( Okpa-
ogicho) and the down section ( Okpa-ogaje).The
up section is usually where the men bath. It’s
separated from the down section so the men
and women do not see themselves while bathing.
Ironically, it’s the women who fetch water for
drinking, hence they are forced to fetch the
sweat and dirt the men wash off their bodies.

Most men who bath inside the Awube stream
spit and urinate inside the same stream, though
there is a myth that whoever urinates inside the
stream will become impotent. What a sane
Ugbugbu child will not do is to defecate inside
the stream, as such is deemed irreverent and
sacrilegious.

It’s, however, strange that despite the growing
civilization in different communities and villages,
the people of Ugbugbu continue to drink and
bath with the water whose source has remained
a mystery.






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