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Just a few years ago, the town of Anam in southern Nigeria was known for all the wrong reasons,

high levels of crime and knife and gun violence. But not anymore. You know why? Because of these women.

They are known as Umo Ada. There is a video of them on the BBC Ebo's social media pages. They look like your regular grannies, no offense to grannies. They are wearing traditional clothes and carrying around their kitchen spoons, but don't be fooled

by their appearance. When things got tough in their community, these women decided to take matters

into their own hands and confronted violent criminals with, you won't believe this one. Well, yes,

with their kitchen spoons. BBC Ibo's

Adeline O'Kera has been reporting on this story as she begins by explaining who these women are.

They are the Umada of the Anam society or the community where they predominantly speak Igbo, these women are married

to or daughters of the community.

So Umoada, meaning Umu, children, are the girl child.

Everybody in this particular sense is Umoada.

Are they considered the elders of their

community? Not quite. So there are a mix of newly married women into the community. And they're the

old women who are now aged. Some of them have lost their husbands. But one thing resonated very

clearly with these women.

They were willing to die for what they knew and what they believed. They were willing to die

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