Effiat is loosing it!!

One come to wonder the relationship why indegenes of a particular settlement intermingle native languages with an alien tongue to compliment or covey an information. It has become a norm as parents who are expected to guide and protect offsprings to keep and probably maintain 'mother tougue' from going into extinction stand to be the very set of people who prevent perhaps, are less concern over these mythologies.

This is a typical case of effiat indigenes in mbo local government area situated in 'oron nation' which seem to be the oil(crude) hub of 'oro nation'. From forklore, effiat inhabitants were also affected by civil war in 1963  forcing an entire community to take refuge in a neighboring community  in calabar, through water means of transport, which is mainly dominanted by the efiks.
However, many scud for their lives living the area empty with no one to watch over ancestral monuments and heritage. After years of asylum in these communities  before the war came to halt, spreading normalcy. many who managed to returned home found it difficult to completely speak, relate with 'native dialect' of effiat without a conjoin of Efik, which has overwhelmed their scope of native iinteraction.

These gradually transit from generations to generations throwing 'mother tongue' into extinction, and no one has still, try to revive these loopholes to correct the anamalous.

Currently in effiat, its difficult to hear any indigene relate with this dialect without an alien language to compliment. Yet, schools and development in 'oro nation' has also contributed to the loss of this language. Our chiefs care less about this gradual extinction embracing languages in 'oro nation'.

"Without 'mother tongues' history becomes quite difficult to keep."

Languages keeps any ethnic or group of people as one.

We should encourage our language pride, guide them with ego, without our history our root is lost. If we don't wear-up to fight it ourselves, no one will fight for us!