CONCLUSION
The study examined the brief history of the socio-economic and political institutions of Efon-Alaaye people. It provided a background to the historical origin, revealing the possible reasons for the migration story. However, it maintained that, the traditions of origins of Efon-Alaaye People like that of other societies a recurrent theme in Nigerian history. It is an issue which touches the very foundation of the group identity of a people. This is especially so in a plural society like Nigeria with many central tendencies and in which access to limited resources, political offices and employment opportunities is largely determined by ethnicity.
The unique feature of Efon-Alaaye traditional socio-political institutions is that everybody, respective of status was important and had a vital role to play. Society was divided into different groups that worked separately but co-operatively. The men, women and youths of divergent categories were stratified into a workable system of government that served the needs of the people well.
Moreover, having established an effective socio-political mechanism, they equally instituted effective economic activities to meet their material and transactive needs. The study of economic activities in pre-colonial Efon-Alaaye Kingdom was a good exercise in unearthing a virile traditional economic system, solely designed by the people. Life became suitable and attractive through the institution of sources of income and expenditure. Economic activities in Oyan Kingdom were all-encompassing in the sense that the major economic pursuits, viz, agriculture, industry and trade were predominant and widely practiced by all sections of the traditional polity. Generally the study of economic activities in pre-colonial Efon-Alaaye was in elaborate excursion into, traditional labor system, land acquisition and tenureship, division of labor, trading currencies and traditional scientific and technological prowess of the people.
