Lepo is one of the three royal gates of the Kpembe Traditional Area, with Kanyase and Singbung; the Kpembewura skin rotates among them. Braimah and Goody (1967) record that about 500 Nawuri died fighting on the side of the Lepo gate in the Kpembe civil war of 1892-93.
Under the Kpembe rotation, the skin was expected to pass to the Lepo gate.