Epie–Atissa people
The Epie have villages that run from Igbogene to Amarata; namely, While the Atissa have villages running from Onopa, to Agbura; namely, The Epie language is recorded sometime in the 1970s to have had about 12,000 speakers spread from Igbogene to Amarata, but within the last 30 years, the numbers of living speakers have greatly reduced.The lack of teaching and learning of the Epie language have contributed greatly to the decline in the numbers of native speakers.These young people have lost touch of the basic cultural heritage and are hence not capable of transferring it to the younger generations.[4] The largest public local market, situated at Swali in the Atissa clan, has been very resourceful to the people of the Niger Delta[5] region of Nigeria.The people of Akenfa have deviated from formal tradition and made the kingship an elected position around the year 2000.