District heads wielded a near despotic power as they were in charge collecting taxes, supervision of public works also falls under this purview.
To cap it all, Agho was made the president of three native courts in Benin, Ehor and Ekewen.
This awesome affluence Agho found himself made him more influential and to some extent despotic.
It was a reward for his loyalty to paymaster, the British. The ob acknowledged this colossal image of Agho his Iyase that in June 1919, he gave out his second daughter Ebose in marriage to him.
Agho was a quintessential diplomat even if he had no formal education. gho represented Benin to give Benin view point on the origin of Lagos that was an offshot of a war camp established during the reign of Oba Orugbu in the 1550s.