In addition, Umuechekwuru, Umuiwuala and Umuchieze villages can marry from Umuohamara and Umumoche, and vice versa.
[citation needed] Three other communities namely, Ihiagwa, Emeabiam and Eziobodo were formerly under one autonomous known as Oche, with Okolochi as their headquarters.
Late HRH Eze FINO Nwabiri was the traditional ruler of Mba Ato Communities until Emeabiam and Eziobodo gained their own autonomous.
The host communities had maintained that the federal government had forcefully taken more than 4,455 hectares of their land in 1982, resulting to their suffering of untold hardship for want of farmland.
[5][6] Okolochi is known for Mbubo Uzo annual festival that usually takes place during farming season, around February.
Government agencies like UNICEF have been recognizing the Udoiri representatives in events that require their presence and opinions, thus the current prepresentation by Mrs Clara Nkwocha.