The people left Okpoin-Ama in search of a better life, as Okpoin-Ama was frequently threatened by a devastating flood. Six headmen led the migration. They were Opu-adwein Ebe Otukpo Obio Akain Atumogoli. They were predominantly migrant fishers, settling in such notable places as Aba -Ama and Boro-Ama in the tributary of the San-Bartholomew river, Kala-Ekulama and Darima near Ke, in present-day Degema. At Lele-Ama the people settled at a bush land in the interior, close to the open Sombriero River, a place they christened Okpoin-Ama after the recent place of the Ekulama people. The only people at that time around the Okpoin-Ama where the Ebema and Bille people. Ebema was founded by Ebe who moved from Okpoin-Ama to a dry land just across the Sombriero river on the opposite side of Okpoin-Ama and settled there with his family. While living at Ebema, Ebe the Amayanabo of Ebema became friends with Agbani, the Amayanabo of Bille. This relationship led Agbani to marry a woman from Ebema, who gave birth to a male child named Agbaniye-Okio. Francis Nenik  Francis Nenik works as a farmer and writes in his free time. He has published several novels. Current works include "XO" (a novel in the form of a loose-leaf collection) as well as a collection of short stories with strict alliteration (2013). His most recent work is "The Marvel of Biographical Bookkeeping", a formally innovative book that explores the life stories of Nicholas Moore and Ivan Blatný, two 20th-century poets whose stars burned bright in their youths, Moore in England and Blatný in Czechoslovakia. Later in their lives both men were battered by history and individual fate. The book's wildly imaginative structures are built on meticulous research, and as the two men’s separate, parallel existences unfold, they reveal astounding coincidences and heartbreaking reversals of fortune. An English translation of his story "Joseph and I" was published in the Spring 2013 issue of "Mad Hatters' Review". Words Without Borders called him "a comic genius, a master of dialogue and invention who finds humor in the darkest of places and darkness in the midst of jokes."