Uche Oba in the Abiriba culture literarily means guarding the yam barn. It is performed by young men from Amogudu Abiriba where age grades are usually formed. They needed to prove they have reached manhood and can guard the community from invaders so their first assignment is to guard the community yam barn which is located at the outskirt of the town. They are armed with weapons like local guns, machetes, sticks and other weapons to protect themselves. On the day they return to the community, they wear disguising costumes in sacks and charcoal making funny gestures to baiting people to laugh so they can receive live goats as fine. The community receives them at a point considered as the boundary between the living and the dead by pouring drinks to the ancestors thanking them for protection.