Success Damian:
Ihenetu has also assured the organizers
of the carnival of his unwavering support.
NWCC, a project borne out of
the idea to ensure cultural integration and as tool for peaceful co-existence
among the Igbos, is billed to take place between December 30, 2021 and January
1, 2022 in Enugu State.
According to a Press Statement
signed by Mrs Evelyn Okere Onyung, the Founder and Convener of NWCC, the visit to
the revered Monarch was in recognition of his prominence in the Igbo agenda and
philanthropic dispositions.
Speaking further, Okere who is
a former Vice Presidential Aspirant, a board member of West African Fashion
Council and a Brand Director maintained that the visit was premised on the fact
that Eze Ihehetu has done extremely well not just for the Igbos, but for the
entire humanity.
The organizers used the
opportunity afforded by the visitation to intimate His Majesty on the laudable
programmes of the highly intellectually packaged Cultural carnival, its aims
and objectives, among other issues, while also soliciting his partnership for
the cultural carnival coming up in December.
Okere disclosed that aside his
yearly New Yam Festival in which he flies high the flag of the Igbo agenda,
unification and progress in Ghana, Eze Ihenetu has done so well, helping Igbos
in Ghana to attain their goals without molestation by either the hosts or
government of Ghana. She added that Ihenetu performed exceedingly well during
the Covid-19 pandemic when his philanthropic activities came to the fore; he
fed people both Igbos and non Igbos in Ghana and outside Ghana.
She went further to state that
Eze Ihenetu is not the only Igbo traditional ruler in the Diaspora, but he is unique
as he has not abandoned his people. “Eze Ihenetu is not the only traditional
ruler in the Diaspora, but even though many of them are doing quite a lot, we
don’t know them, he is in the media space, he communicates ideas, he also
intervenes and uses his office resoundingly at any point there is friction
between Nigerians and Ghanaians. He is somebody that has love and progress of
Ndigbo at heart,” Onyung stated.
She continued “So we went
there first to recognize what he has been doing, secondly we made him the Grand
Patron of Ndigbo Worldwide Cultural Carnival, which he accepted and promised to
support us.”
Okere said “It is the
intention of the organizers to bring Igbos from different states to a state in
our various cultures whereby we would not see ourselves as substandard Igbo, everybody
would see themselves as brothers and sisters, dancing, and watching masquerades
perform; it would bring about investment
to the people, it would help to instill cultural confidence, really it is going
to be a big project, using cultural tourism as pillar for industrialization,
foreign direct investment (FDI) among other benefits of the carnival.”
Appreciating the team Leader,
Mrs Onyung for her dogged leadership qualities, Eze Ihenetu said it will be a
thing of joy to see Nigeria being led by a woman, he spoke of the organizational
dexterity of women both in family and government ventures. He said that any
home where the children are well cultured there is a virtuous woman in that
family.
He commended Mrs Onyung for
the laudable project, adding that the project is designed to sensitise the Igbos
especially the young ones on the cultural practices of the Igbos.
He assured the group of great
and massive support towards ensuring that the carnival is a success. He stated
that the grand patron position given to him is for the entire Igbos in Ghana.
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