In the face of continued threat to their existence and survival, it is on record (15) that the Yagba people and the Okun in general openly solicited the intervention of the white man; they reportedly requested the British to come and shield them from the Nupe.
It would be recalled that the Nupe wars had forced Yagba people to inaccessible places.
For West Yagba which came under Lafiagi-Pategi division, tax assessment and collection was systematized under a Nupe district head.
These clan settlements were disorganized and dislodged as a result of Nupe raids.
While it is true that colonial rule put an end to Nupe raids and heralded an era of peace, but the fear of the unknown and the memories of the harrowing Nupe experience might have been responsible for such an attitude.
As Yagba communities reacted differently to the Nupe raids of the late nineteenth century depending on the options opened to them, Amuro people were forced under that socio-political upheaval to move to the hill-top.
Nupe wars however disrupted these settlements in the 1890s and forced the people to seek hide-outs in the forests.
This reluctance is not unconnected with the fact that, the Nupe raids had made many to abandon their old clan settlements in the original site.
Igbagun initially was a refugee settlement of all Yagba people during the Nupe raids because its thick forest provided a hiding place for the people.
The Nupe raids of the nineteenth century put Yagba land in a dilemma, from which they could not free themselves.
