The geopolitical restructuring of states and local government within Nigeria has seen the egalitarian society of the Oron Nation being fragmented politically in the Niger Delta.

In a subsequent dispute over land which broke out and erupted into open war between the Obodom and Okrika people, the Okrika are said to hired Nkwo warriors to fight on their behalf, repulsed on the 'eat your victim tactics' used by the Nkwo warriors, the Idua people under by the leadership of their ancestral father Mbaba left where they settled to settle among the group known as Idua Eket.

Some other settlements in there were founded independently which os Obufi formed by group of refugees from the Obolo clan who decide to settle among their Oron kinsmen during their migration.

The Ebughu reportedly move southeasterly cross the creeks with raft and land at today Ibuno (Ibeno) but did not find the location suitable for farming.

[20] According to tradition a mud skipper helped the Enwang cross the Mbo river to Uba where a new settlement was established, the advanced party sent words to others who were behind to join them as days went by the population grew.

He first established a settlement at Uboro Oron which was developed into village status by his grandson 'Sekung', according to tradition Okpo begot 'Bieto' who got other sons principally 'Sekung', 'Bassey', 'Okpu' and 'Sunlip'.

The Effiat area became a meeting point for making and selling of sea salts with different people coming from Cameroon, Calabar, Oron and Eket.

Ikpoto Otong subsequent miscegenation with other settling fishermen after obtaining land from the Ibaka people at the beach in other to trade palm oil too.

[28]The Mbo villages of Ibaka Town, Uda community, Offi, Onukim, Udung Eyo Unyenge and Utit Atai Unyenge belong to the Ukwong Clan of the Oron people, they separated from the main stock at Usahadit, and cross to the present site of Uda with the Ibaka moving out first to establish present location.

The red Iyara is usually worn with a white tailored traditional shirt and wrap-around (wrapper) fabric common to people all over the South-Southern regions Nigeria.

Instead, they are to eat sumptuous dishes, engage in meaningful conversation, and sleep; coupled with the three times daily massages that are meant to bring out the natural endowments.

In addition to the above Fattening Room activities, the girl goes through domestic training of home management (like cooking, childcare, and housekeeping) and how to respect and make her husband be and his family happy.

The ceremony continues throughout the whole day and night as families, friends and well wishers express their joy and happiness with gifts and donations to the bride.

During a perilous time of hunger in the Middle Ages, AHTA AYA-ARAH, went out on his usual safari, but failed to return home same day as should have been.

This well calved wooden Stool, remains the oldest surviving artifact of Oro and in the Lower Cross River Basin.

[35] Oron is found in the flood plain of South Nigeria, with the land mainly intersected by numerous streams and tributaries flowing into Cross River including the stubs creeks and widenham forests.

The geopolitical restructuring of states and local government within Nigeria has seen the egalitarian society of the Oron Nation being fragmented politically in the Niger Delta.

The area has high prospects for increased oil exploration because it has been rated as having one of the highest natural gas deposits in sub-Saharan Africa.

(ii) That the Bakassi territorial area on the Oron eastern border with the Cameroon Republic was awarded in 1996 by the Federal Military Government to Cross River State in honour of some highly placed sons and daughters of that state for their closeness to Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha against the position of informed representation, documented facts before and during the colonial/early post-independent era.

That occasioned by neglect, marginalisation, repression, discrimination and deprivations, the story of Oro participation in the contraption called Nigeria has been one of stagnation and under development.

That although the Oron Nation has played host to oil exploration and exploitation activities which started with Shell in 1958 with capped wells dotted across the Oro landscape, there is nothing to show for it.

That despite the presence of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited rigs within Oro territorial waters and in "disputed" waters, the Oron Nation has been denied its due, following the abrogation of offshore - onshore dichotomy as representations for Oro Local Government Areas to be in core catchment area of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited have continued to fall on deaf ears.

Of specific note is the fact that even paltry compensations for the January 1998 oil spill have not been paid to most communities and individuals in the Oro speaking Local Government Areas.

Most agonising is the continued pollution of our coastal waters, rivers creeks and streams through the dumping of poisonous substances in our deep ocean trenches.

Without mincing words, such acts have nonetheless placed our ocean's abundant wealth in jeopardy causing gross impoverishment of many fisherfolk and disrupting lives of coastal habitats and fish nursery grounds.

That the unilateral determination and implementation of the Derivation Principle of Revenue Allocation by the Federal Government alone without inputs/representations from oil producing States and communities have been a major source of tension in the country.

Such a policy has been left to the whims and caprices of the predatory military cliques who were until recently in control of power to the detriment of the oil producing areas.

That the achievement of the manifest destiny must be seen in the total security of the Oron geopolitical space which includes the people, the land, the culture and future.

(7) The control and composition of all security organizations be decentralized, for instance, the military should be controlled and formed on regional commands basis and administered as recommended by the Movement for National Reformation, Izon National Congress, Afenifere, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), the Ohaneze, Uhrobo Union, The Alliance for Democracy, JACON and other patriotic, popular organizations in the country.

Offong Ekpu Edubio Odoro Edubio (A revolutionary and an interpreter for the Colonial Government in 1913–1925, co-founder of Oron Union) His Royal Majesty, Okon Eyokunyi Isong (Kpongotte) (A writer historic books such as The Origin of Oro Before The First Patrol and The Origin of Afaha Okpo dated In 1930, lay preacher, Methodist Church, 1970–1975, appointed president, Oron Customary Court and proclaimed first modern Ahta Oro, sitting on the same stool and adopting the same title, a medieval Oro Patriarch, Ahta Aya Ahrah, was identified with, more than 500 years earlier).