Ichida History

Ichida History.

Ichida is one of the ten towns that make up Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. It is bounded in the north by Adazi-Enu and Nnokwa, in the

east by Oraeri, in the south by Igbo-Ukwu and Azuigbo, in the west by Awka-Etiti.

Ichida community has twenty villages namely: Ajani, Dunuebo, Elimehi, Uranudo, Mgbuwa, Umuebo, Ihe, Umuakata, Umuezesue, Nnulukwu, Ubulu, Uhuanaoma, Ezebazu, Udoama, Amuleri, Uhuana, Mgbudu, Umukam, Umuezeonyedi and Umudunuagu.

The exact population of the town is yet to be asacertained, however September, 2002 figure put it at 21,027 people. The majority of the people of Ichida are farmers who reside at home while others are traders who live abroad. The civil/public servants among them live outside the town-at their various places of work.

A version of history has it that when man began tilling the ground, the exercise gave rise to the need for the soil and migration and ownership of land ensued. That it was the migration that made Okotu, the father of Ichida to leave his house in Umuona to settle in Adazi-Enu in a village called Umuabu, and that the four brothers who were great grand fathers of Nebo, Isuofia, Akwaeze and Neni settled in different locations. Ichida settled in Isiube and his other brothers either called Okotu Brothers or Igwulube Okotu namely Adazi-Enu, Adazi-Ani, Adazi-Nnukwu, Obeledu, Amichi, Osmenyi and Ogbodi settled in their different communities.

The current traditional ruler of Ichida is His Royal Majesty, Sir Charles. N Ezeudogu (KSS), the Obi II of Ichida.