Abdallahi ibn Muhammad
Near Nejo at the hill of Guté Dili, on 14 October 1888 the joint forces of "Ras" Gobana Dacche and Moroda Bekere defeated the invading army of Khalil al-Khuzani, an officer of the Abdallahi ibn Muhammad who had invaded Wellega. At the time, Nejo was a trading center of the Sibu Oromo. "Dejazmach" Gebre Egziabher moved his residence from Nekemte to Nejo, where around 1893 he built the church of Kidane Mihret, the second Ethiopian Orthodox church in Sibo province; priests for the church were recruited from Shewa.