3-year-old Mma Abumi Edet is currently being
celebrated by the people of Mbarakom community in Akampkpa Local
Government Area of Cross River State as she is believed to have
resolved an age-long monarchical struggle in the community, and also
put an end to a catalogue of evils that had befallen them for over a
decade.
To show their appreciation, the community has pledged to sponsor her education to tertiary level.
According to the new monarch of the community, Sylvester
Etim Eta-Agbor, the community had been entangled in controversies after
the demise of its king, Effiong Nyong, in 1997 and living things like
snail, periwinkle, which were common sights in the community had
vanished because of the evil things that were going on in the community
but Mma Abumi stepped in and saved the situation.
She allegedly revealed that the person (name withheld)
who had been coronated as the late King Effiong's successor was not the
right person for the throne and he was subsequently dethroned and the
right person was enthroned. Now things are back to normal in the
community.
Her father, Mr. Ekpe Edet told journalist that is
daughter had always told him she is a queen and he shouldn't be
treating her badly.
Edet, who is a carpenter in Oban, a distant community
within the same Akamkpa LGA, said his daughter revealed to him on
January 13, 2014 that the problems confronting Mbarakom community were
as a result of a wrong choice of monarch.
"It was difficult for me to believe her because I ran
away from that village many years ago and she didn't even know the
village and I had never mentioned the name of the community to her
before,'' he explained.
He succumbed to her and broke his vow of not visiting
Mbarakom after a series of instructions from his daughter on the need
to intervene in the community kingship tussle and after so many prayers
and revelations in Mbarakom, she instructed that a royal cloth be sown
for the new monarch.
The community believes Mma-Abumi is the reincarnated queen of Mbarakom that died in 1980.
It was gathered that Mma-Abumi had relocated with her
parents from Oban to the community and she is now schooling at St.
Theresa Primary School in Mbarakom.
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