The Akwakuma/Uratta Group in Owerri North Council Space of Imo has celebrated their annual cultural pageant with all retailers and markets briefly closed.
The occasion at Akwakuma Market Sq. was attended by numerous dignitaries from inside and out of doors the state, along with quite a few cultural actions
In his tackle on the pageant, the Conventional Ruler of Akwakuma/Uratta Autonomous Group, HRH Eze David Nnawuihe Onu Egwunwoke, revealed the group's resolve to interact in subsistence farming as a strategy to tackle attainable starvation and hunger in the neighborhood .
The monarch described the present meals disaster going through Nigerians as one other nightmare that the nation has been grappling with for a number of years.
He mentioned, “A hungry man is an offended man and never placing meals on the desk for the youngsters is an invite to every kind of vices.”
On insecurity, Eze Onu Egwunwoke lamented that insecurity has develop into a thorn within the aspect of the nation, with disastrous penalties.
He affirmed that the group has since enhanced safety in each nook and cranny of the group with the set up of a well-equipped and strengthened native authorities vigilance group to patrol all over the place for the safety of lives and property.
He mentioned: “The assorted neighborhood associations have joined our impenetrable and formidable safety structure to make sure that legal components don’t use our place as a gathering level to plot and perform their nefarious actions.”
The Monarch mentioned the pageant (Emume Akwakuma) is as previous because the group and dates again to historical past when ancestors of their instinct and knowledge determined to carry a complete annual gathering that helped push the frontier of improvement in the neighborhood.
He mentioned such occasions, which he mentioned usher in a brand new yr for the group for a brand new agricultural season, additionally assist take away obstacles recognized as cogs within the wheel of its progress, in addition to impose penalties on those that in a method or one other been discovered responsible. others desecrated the land.
Whereas denying any type of fetish on the simply concluded cultural pageant, the Eze identified that earlier than then, there was no quarrel or any form of confusion among the many folks of the group.
He suggested the youths of the group to not bask in any type of crime within the absence of white collar jobs.
He described unemployment as a cankerworm and a Pandora's field within the polity with chains of adversarial multiplier results
HRH Eze David Nnawuihe Onu Egwunwoke, the Conventional Ruler of Akwakuma/Uratta Autonomous Group in Owerri North Council Space of Imo State.
