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This statue is our Igala princess Inikpi, one of the great history of Igala Kingdom signifying love ❤️

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This statue is our Igala princess Inikpi, one of the great history of Igala Kingdom signifying love ❤️      More about the Princess of love 😘 Princess Inikpi was a beautiful and intelligent young woman, whose selfless sacrifice saved her people from doom. She was the only daughter of her parents — the Atah Ayegba Oma Idoko and queen Omele. The Igala Kingdom at about the 15th and 16th century was at loggerheads with the Bini Kingdom, one of their strongest enemies. The Bini warriors persistently attacked Igala land to the extent of wanting to annihilate the people. The Bini warriors employed different tactics, including poisoning the streams, sudden attacks in the day and night, and laying siege to their farmland. The Igala people then lived in constant fear, as they could not go to the farm or to the stream. Owing to this, the chiefs consulted the oracle, which proclaimed that the only remedy to the safety of the kingdom and victory in war, was for the king to bury his most beloved da