One group performed the Ebre dance drama. This is a traditional dance drama that functions as a morality play, and was used in traditional society as a kind of Judge Judy. "It is a disciplinary group," says Mrs. Asa Edet Ebieme, the commissioner for Akwa Ibom’s ministry of culture and tourism. "If there’s any case of theft, misbehavior, the (village women) will go back and bring out the person responsible, put the person in the middle of a circle and they will sing that you are a thief and have sort of a trial. It is mainly done by elderly women."
It is a visualization of the sort of peer disapproval found in any society in the world, but set to rhythms found nowhere else. It is now performed as pure drama, usually at state functions. The part of the miscreant is played by one of the dancers, who is expected to show real fear and shame. In the villages, it is still used for the original purpose, and they use real miscreants.