It is also widely recognized because of its erosion site which has baffled geologists for many years and records have it that it is supposedly deeper than the Grand Canyon.

Ekwueme and Shagari won the presidential election for a second term that was to run from 1983 to 1987, but their administration was toppled in a military coup and replaced by Major-General Muhammad Buhari.

Major food crops include assorted vegetables and fruits, yam, cassava, coco-yam, plantain, banana, oranges and maize.

Oko town has produced many legal practitioners both at the bar and bench who have made their marks in their chosen fields.

These include an Appeal Court Judge; Justice Mrs Angela Otaluka, the first American Lawyer (Litigator) Chukwukwelu Bartholomew Okonkwo both from the Ezioko Village in Oko and many others.