It was in 1959. Mammy Ode, a young lady from Jericho-Ugboju in the present Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, was hitched to Anthony Aboki Ochefu, a youthful Non-Commissioned military officer, who had quite recently been presented on Enugu from Abeokuta.
They were quartered at the Army Barracks, Abakpa, Enugu. To beat inaction and maybe win some cash to help her young family, Mrs. Mammy Ochefu built up a sodas business. She arranged gruel, which is called umu or enyi in Idoma, or kunu in Hausa, available to be purchased to officers. She soon ended up plainly mainstream with her stuff as warriors trooped to her home to purchase enyi. Some of her best clients were officers, who constantly sent their batmen to get a portion of the gruel for them, Monday through Friday.
Some way or another, one of the Non-Commissioned Officers, the RSM, did not stream with the energy, which Mammy's gruel created among other military men in the garisson huts. He grumbled that the stuff was drawing in flies into the sleeping quarters and requested Mrs. Mammy Ochefu to stop its generation and deal.
Despite the fact that amazed and disillusioned at the request of the RSM, she ceased the creation and offer of enyi. Her husband, not being an officer at the time, couldn't challenge the request of the RSM.
For quite a long time, Mrs. Mammy Ochefu obsessed about the destiny of her business, similarly as officers and men of the Nigerian Army who making the most of her