Abia State News Special Report
IGBO LANGUAGE WILL NOT GO INTO EXTINCTION IN 2025 AS PREDICTED BY UNESCO - EZE NWOSU
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Afnews Editor
Aug 11, 2019
The Traditional Ruler of Umukabia Okaiuga Alike Autonomous
Community, HRM, Eze Uzo Nwosu said the UNESCO prediction that Igbo language
will go into extinction by 2025 will not hold water.
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The traditional ruler who was speaking during the iri ji
festival of his community however advised parents to teach their children how
to speak their mother tongue alongside other adopted languages.
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He further advised that Igbo language should be included in
the school curriculum while advising authors of Igbo origin to write novels and
textbooks in Igbo language, "government should also encourage Igbo
language by awarding scholarship to students to study Igbo language".
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Eze Nwosu noted with dismay the increasing rate of youths
involvement in illicit drugs and other social vices, attributing it to
unemployment, greed and peer group influences, and advised the youths not to
depend on white collar jobs but to learn skills to make a living.
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The Traditional Ruler stated that the iri ji yam ceremony in
Igbo land has served as repository of all the ancient relics, culture and symbol
around which the pristine glory and fame of Igbo land and Umukabia in particularly
and Igbo culture revolved in the middle of the 19th Century.
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While declaring open the new yam festival the traditional
ruler noted that Umukabia have been known from the ancient to announce annual
yam festival in ohuhu" the new yam
festival is an important festival celebrated yearly by the people all over Igbo
land it is period we thank god for bumper harvest particularly with
"ji", the chief crop of our people from the olden days .
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Eze Nwosu further stated that this year festival is
particularly unique for the singular reason that the celebration of iri ji is
an occasion used to appreciate and reward their illustrous sons and daughters
who have contributed to the development of the community.
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He expressed gratitude to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and his
Deputy , sir Ude Oko Chukwu and other guests for their support towards the
successful hosting of the ceremony.
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Also speaking , the
chairman on the occasion, former TC chairman, Umuahia North Local Government
Area, Chief Okezie Ezeigbo congratulated the Eze for upholding the culture inherited from their forefathers, while
advising the awardees to continue to
contribute to the development of the community .
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One of the awardees, who spoke to our reporter, chief
chukwudi Agwu said that he has empowered many widows and awarded scholarship to
many he doesn't know and promise to do
more to uplift humanity regardless of where they come from through his Nmesoma
Foundation.
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Highlight of the occasion was the conferment of chieftaincy titles on deserving sons of the community and declaration of iri ji yam ceremony in ohuhu land open .
