Ngwa Youths have been urged to shun political apathy and embrace active political participation if they want to remain relevant in the politics of Abia state.
Barr. Ikenna Anyanwu, who was the guest speaker at the 2012 Ngwa Bu Otu Youth Association’s Annual General Meeting, made this call while delivering a lecture titled “Economic and Political Empowerment in Ngwa Land”, at the Eastern Comfort hotels, Umuahia.
Anyanwu said until Ngwa youths show much interest in the election of candidates to various political offices, they will still remain irrelevant in the scheme of things.
He stressed that a total emancipation of Ngwa Land from its present state will only come when Ngwa youths wake up from their economic slumber, embrace education and active political participation.
According to him, political power always carry economic undertone. “Economic revolution needed in Ngwa land will only come when they (Ngwa youths) participates actively in determining who leads them.
“Ngwa people should participate in the process of enthronement of government. When they participate, they see the enthronement of that government as their own and therefore, the maintenance of such a government becomes their responsibility. Both the ruler and the ruled work together for the good of all”. He asserted.
Describing unity and education as a vehicle that will drive the process of emancipation of Ngwa land, Anyanwu posited that until both the old and young in Ngwa land embrace literacy in all ramifications, Ngwa land will not make any headway.
The chairman, Board of Trustee of Ngwa Bu Otu Youth Association, Chief Ogbonna Nwannunu called on Ngwa indigenes at home and in Diaspora to see love as a virtue they must imbibe to make progress.
He further condemned the attitude of some Ngwa people who have promote acts that cause disunity, describing such actions as capable of undermining the progress of the Ngwa race.
“It is only when love and peace reigns among us that we may be sufficiently empowered to stand eyeball to eyeball with our peers across any divide to demand whatever rightly belongs to us and be taken seriously.
For as long as brothers and sisters keep maligning one another, our salvation will remain remote,” he remarked.
The President –General of the Association, Chief Gabriel Onyendilefu in his remarks stated the annual conference of the association provides opportunity for various chapters of the group to come and render account of stewardship and also to fulfill the legal act establishing the association.
Onyendilefu who is also the Accountant General of Abia state called on Ngwa indigenes to always carry their identity and embrace their language as a means of communication when they come in contact with one another as a means of propagating the rich cultures of Ngwa land
