HISTORY OF THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN SAGI NNAKYATSWA IN AGAIE UNDER EWUGI VILLAGE DURING MALLAM BABBA WAR

 This was a powerful woman who played a critical role during the fight between the Fulani Jihadist and the settlers in Agaie.

During the war, sometime 1827 a woman named Sagi Nnakyastwa approached the elders to allow her to lead the Ewugi forces to the fight between them and the followers of Mallam Babba, and her approval was granted.

On the day of the encounter, she ordered her stool to be placed at the camping site of Ewugi forces. With a bevy of virgin girls and her iron stick branded as Kandi in her hand, she sat on her stool and ordered the war drummers to continue chanting war songs on the approach of Fulani forces. Soon, a swarm of bees started to hoover in the sky toward the Fulani forces, which forced them to disperse. Some repeatedly died from the stings suffered by the bees. which also led to the suspension of the war.

In 1828 another war was to commence to be led by the same powerful woman Sagi Nnnakyastwa. In the early hours of the day, the fight was to take place, she directed her bevy of virgin girls to go to the usual site and station her stool there. When she was about to leave for the battlefield, she arranged with her husband to, on the approach of the Fulani warriors, ride on a white horse which she had bought for him. Her husband did as she directed, and the entire Ewugi forces mysteriously became men on white horses. The Fulani forces were frightened on seeing all Ewugi troops on white horses. They returned home to report the incidence to Mallam Babba. This marked the end of the encouter in 1828.

1829 The Fulani were fully prepared to win the war and when the battle was to begin, to be led by the same powerful woman Sagi N. She performed her usual ritual, she sat on her stool with her iron stick in hand. On the approach of Fulani forces, a swarm of birds (kpakpakuru) emerged from the thick forest around Ewugi and started twitting strange and frightening noises.  The noise was so alarming that Fulani forces could not withstand it and had to retreat; believing that the strong woman Sagi N. has once again, unveiled her sorceries.

Before the next fight the powerful woman died on her sick bed in Ewugi village. Meanwhile, Mallam Babba and his followers on realizing the strength of Ewugi Forces resorted to deploying deplomatic and spiritual ways in their wars against Ewugi. But even with ll the tricks of the Fulani, most of the Ewugi people also have one or two spiritual power, lots of them escape the tricks of the fulani by turning into birds and fly away.

Finally, in 1831 the Fulani people poison the River Rukpa which was the only source of water used by Ewugi natives for drinking and for domestic purposes. And this led to the death of many ewugi natives after drinking the water, while others disperse to different locations for safety. This was how Ewugi forces were overpowered. Which eventually marked the fall of Ewugi Kingdom to the Fulani.

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