AKASSA IBE

AKASSA IBE: The Akassa are in present day bayelsa State. The founding ancestors of the Akassa came and settled that area pre-14th century, before the place was abandoned, and then during the 17th century from Kassama of the Apoi central. The leader of the migrants was on La or Lar. They had migrated from their ancestral home during the time of the slave trade, due to insecurity in the area. La and followers migrated south and settled at Opu-Akassa on the eastern bank of the Nun estuary. His son Emere expanded the village and it eventually became a town from which various migrants left to found the various villages of Akassa in the central delta coastal islands. Some ancestors came from Igbematoru in Boma Ebe, due to a slave raid on that village by a people called Tobukigi. These founded the towns of Kamatoru and Sangana. One Opunama son of Emere, signed a treaty with the British in 1863.