IZZI people has five days in a week to their method of counting and not seven days as seen in the English calendar.the days are: azua, iboko, okpo, nkwegu and ophoke which is known as the resting day.
The people of IZZI has a shifting cultivation system because of the large area of land. They cultivate different kinds of crops including yam used for the new yam festival(ojiji).
A week before the festival, the elders from Amegu (in IZZI)would go to the shrine to offer sacrifices to thank their gods for leading them (the Izzi people) out of the period of scarcity of food, experienced during the dry season.
These elders set aside men of rituals who have not eaten anything new till the very day they go the shrine to make the sacrifices. They reserve old water from the previous raining season to Drink on the until ojiji day.
These men are not allowed to eat anything new including new groundnut, new yam, new come an so on till the D-DAY.
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