The term taboos has to do with lawful prohibitions of certain contacts
that may defy the cultural standard of
the people many taboos are associated with
kola nuts, among the people of Izzi.
For instance, kola nuts threes found around inhabited houses are termed
sacrilegious and will be uprooted and transferred to another site.
According to Nwali Eze (fortune- teller
from Ishieke Igbudu, in Izzisouth, who was interviewed “ females are strictly
warned not to climb kola nuts trees”
Again kola nuts which has remained for several years in bareness are
often given matchet cuts around the trunk or branch of it many be cuts off. The
people of Izzi traditionally believe that it will reduce
the infertility rate and increase the yielding rate in the subsequent year.