BY MAGNUS EMUJI/CHUKWUDI ASOYA
THE need for every individual in the society to wholeheartedly embrace their cultural heritage and traditions and strive to sustain them at all times to ensure that cultural identities do not go into extinction has been brought to the fore.
A renowned community leader from Amachai Quarters, Okpanam in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, Ogbueshi Ikechukwu Philip Nwankwo stated this in his Amachai country home while speaking with journalists after taking alor title in the community.
Ogbueshi Nwankwo, whose title is Onyemaechi, said that he decided to provide services to his people in accordance with their culture, adding that Christianity does not restrict one from rendering such services
He described his new traditional title as a platform to interface with other leaders in the community in taking decisions that would not only bring peace and unity to the community but drive meaningful socio-economic development in community as well .
While commending his people for their support, Ogbueshi Nwankwo promised to uphold the principles and the rules and regulations of alor title.
Ogbueshi Nwankwo urged the people of Okpanam community to love one another and desist from anything that would not impact the community, assuring that he would contribute his quota to the growth of the community.
In their separate remarks, the chairman of Okpanam Vigilante Organization, Mr. Amaminze Okeleke and Ogbueshi Celestine Okolie said that the celebrant possessed all the requirements to provide quality leadership in the service of his people.
They, however, congratulated him for taking the bull by the horns to identify with the forum of decision makers in the community, stressing that he was a man of integrity.
Earlier, the son of the celebrant, Mr. Raphael Nwankwo described his father as a goal getter, unassuming and a man with uncommon humility, noting that the newest traditional title holder in the community was a peace lover and always passionate about the upliftment of humanity.
He asserted that as an asset, the celebrant would add value to the forum of traditional title holders (alor) in the community , just as he congratulated him.
