We’re working to reclaim Ukpor from unknown gunmen — Igwe, PG

…Community celebrates New Yam Festival

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nnewi

The Ukpor assemblage successful Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State has pledged continued collaboration with the authorities authorities and its eminent sons and daughters to reclaim the country from the grip of chartless gunmen.

The assurance was fixed during the community’s yearly New Yam Festival (Igba Anuri Iri Ji Ukpor 2025), by the accepted ruler, His Royal Majesty, Igwe Dr. Felix C.N. Onyimadu; the President-General of Ukpor Improvement Union (UIU), Hon. Barr. Ikenna Mbazulike-Amechi; and the Chairman of the Festival Planning Committee, Dim Remy Nnakife.

Speaking astatine the colourful ceremony, Igwe Onyimadu expressed joyousness that comparative bid had returned to Ukpor, which had antecedently been dreaded owed to the activities of gunmen who terrorized communities successful Nnewi South, burning down portion of the assembly office and vehicles, and sidesplitting a information defender during their rampage.

On his part, President-General Mbazulike-Amechi said the assemblage would proceed to uphold peace, security, and taste heritage.

“We look guardant to Ukpor’s New Yam Festival going planetary and attracting visitors from crossed the world, due to the fact that a assemblage that produced a renowned nationalist similar the precocious Chief Mbazulike Amechi cannot beryllium overlooked,” helium said.

He stressed that Ukpor indispensable person its rightful spot successful authorities and nationalist affairs, adding: “God is blessing us, but we indispensable enactment unneurotic to unrecorded successful bid and unafraid our community. The New Yam Festival is not idol worship. It is taste thanksgiving to God for a palmy farming play and a solemnisation of identity. True religion promotes tolerance, unity, and respect for heritage.”

Festival Planning Committee Chairman, Dim Nnakife, described the solemnisation arsenic a unifying level for the people.

“This is wherever we hold connected the mode guardant for the community. Ukpor utilized to beryllium a den of chartless gunmen, but with the enactment of our eminent sons and daughters, and the contiguous medication of Governor Charles Soludo, we person taken the assemblage back,” helium said.

He commended Governor Soludo, Anambra South Senator-elect Chief Emma Nwachukwu (a erstwhile UIU President-General), and different stakeholders for their roles successful restoring bid and security.

The four-day event, held astatine St. Mary’s Central School Field, featured Ahia Okika (community marketplace display), the symbolic eating of yam by the accepted ruler and assemblage members, and prayers of thanksgiving.

Eminent sons and daughters of Ukpor attended the occasion, alongside representatives of each 15 villages crossed the community’s six zones.

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