THE KAGORO TRIBE: THEIR TRADITIONS OF ORIGIN
The tribe as well as the people are called Kagoro. (Oegworok as they called themselves). Their land is Abin Oegworok and their chief is Oegwam Oegworok.
The traditional always say that they came from the east and probably from Sudan. They left there for reasons of wars and pleasures and travelled southwest through south of Chad into Borno. (There is a tribe known as Kagoro in French west Africa whose link may not be coincidence). The left there to southwestward until they reached Bauchi and settled at southern Bauchi around Fobur areas (now in plateau state).
They stayed there for many years until they left and travelled southwestward to Assop ( Plateau state) and from there to numbio (presently Nimbia) near the Kagoro Hills. They found no one there but bush forest full of wild animals. While there, though they hunted the wild animals for food yet the had to move away after many years because there domestic animals were being tomented by the wild animals. The move up to the Kagoro hills and settled at Tsok-Busa on top of the hills. They discovered a good plain land at the western side while the esthern and the northern part were occupied by the Kachechere (Tacharak) who were under the Dominion of Kajuru. The Oegworok came down fought and drove them northwards and settled on the plains. It was during this war that Yomuang Ada the famous Zafan warior killed seven Tacharak in one day after which skulls of tribal enemies legitimately acquired in combat later became superior trophies. Some of the Tacharak later came back and peacefully they all became Oegworok.
The time Oegworok left Bauchi to Assop and Numbio was around 1600-1700. How ever around the same period some Kagorians were said to have further migrated to other directions of which Kamantan perhabs said to be one origin while Angan believe themselves to be Kagoro immigrants. Others who later migrated individually or in small groups infused and became powerful clans within other tribes. Between 1700-1800 they too were increased in population by some followed up groups from other directions and thus adding to the Oegworok known as Ankwai. The occupied a large area extending with boundaries with Ganawuri to the east and Kaningkong to the to the southwest.
The first such group was the Kata who M.G. Smith suggested may have originated in the kpaisa lineage (Ma-Kata) of the Agbat clan among the Kataf while the clan head explained that the group got its name from the woven local hat known as Kata which was said to be mostly worn by them and they came from Miango. However they were called Kpashan. Later arrives after the Kpashan were called Muzaram but were all placed under the tribal control of the Kata. The name Kpashan and Muzaran were inter-changeably used for all strangers but later the term Kpashan came to be accepted for all strangers. Oegworok political system and administration were then organized in moieties of Ankwai and Kpashan. In 1905 Kagoro came under the British rule and in August 1926 when the Plateau province was created, the independent district of Kagoro was included.
On the 1st November, 1934 the District was transferred to Zaria province. It remained there until the creation of states in which it was grouped with Kaduna State under Jema’a Local Government. In 1989 including Marwa District both became kaura Local Government created by the federal Government. Presently Kagoro chiefdom has 3 districts with 18 villages as created by the military Administration of Kaduna state Edict dated 26th December, 1991. Here we are calling the attention of Kaduna state Government praying and hoping they will create more districts within the Chiefdom to allow the chiefdom operate administratively and traditionally as it historically existed.
The tribe as well as the people are called Kagoro. (Oegworok as they called themselves). Their land is Abin Oegworok and their chief is Oegwam Oegworok.
The traditional always say that they came from the east and probably from Sudan. They left there for reasons of wars and pleasures and travelled southwest through south of Chad into Borno. (There is a tribe known as Kagoro in French west Africa whose link may not be coincidence). The left there to southwestward until they reached Bauchi and settled at southern Bauchi around Fobur areas (now in plateau state).
They stayed there for many years until they left and travelled southwestward to Assop ( Plateau state) and from there to numbio (presently Nimbia) near the Kagoro Hills. They found no one there but bush forest full of wild animals. While there, though they hunted the wild animals for food yet the had to move away after many years because there domestic animals were being tomented by the wild animals. The move up to the Kagoro hills and settled at Tsok-Busa on top of the hills. They discovered a good plain land at the western side while the esthern and the northern part were occupied by the Kachechere (Tacharak) who were under the Dominion of Kajuru. The Oegworok came down fought and drove them northwards and settled on the plains. It was during this war that Yomuang Ada the famous Zafan warior killed seven Tacharak in one day after which skulls of tribal enemies legitimately acquired in combat later became superior trophies. Some of the Tacharak later came back and peacefully they all became Oegworok.
The time Oegworok left Bauchi to Assop and Numbio was around 1600-1700. How ever around the same period some Kagorians were said to have further migrated to other directions of which Kamantan perhabs said to be one origin while Angan believe themselves to be Kagoro immigrants. Others who later migrated individually or in small groups infused and became powerful clans within other tribes. Between 1700-1800 they too were increased in population by some followed up groups from other directions and thus adding to the Oegworok known as Ankwai. The occupied a large area extending with boundaries with Ganawuri to the east and Kaningkong to the to the southwest.
The first such group was the Kata who M.G. Smith suggested may have originated in the kpaisa lineage (Ma-Kata) of the Agbat clan among the Kataf while the clan head explained that the group got its name from the woven local hat known as Kata which was said to be mostly worn by them and they came from Miango. However they were called Kpashan. Later arrives after the Kpashan were called Muzaram but were all placed under the tribal control of the Kata. The name Kpashan and Muzaran were inter-changeably used for all strangers but later the term Kpashan came to be accepted for all strangers. Oegworok political system and administration were then organized in moieties of Ankwai and Kpashan. In 1905 Kagoro came under the British rule and in August 1926 when the Plateau province was created, the independent district of Kagoro was included.
On the 1st November, 1934 the District was transferred to Zaria province. It remained there until the creation of states in which it was grouped with Kaduna State under Jema’a Local Government. In 1989 including Marwa District both became kaura Local Government created by the federal Government. Presently Kagoro chiefdom has 3 districts with 18 villages as created by the military Administration of Kaduna state Edict dated 26th December, 1991. Here we are calling the attention of Kaduna state Government praying and hoping they will create more districts within the Chiefdom to allow the chiefdom operate administratively and traditionally as it historically existed.
By Edward Joshua
This will help peaple of Kagoro to know their Origin
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