The National President of Traditional Prime Ministers in Nigeria, High Chief Uche James Akwukwegbu, has encouraged his members across the country to articulate more community members into farming to produce more food for the country.
Akwukwegbu made this encouragement in his Amuzukwu country home, during the 2021 New Yam Festival flag off by Ibeku Ancient Kingdom in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State, stating that Nigeria had more farmers in the country than any other profession, who, when organised and encouraged, would produce enough food to feed the nation and even for export.
Akwukwegbu said in his community and the entire South-East, yam is known to be the king of all crops and thanked President Mohammadu Buhari and Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, for their proactive measures in agriculture that in his Ibeku clan, farmers produced enough to feed the people.
He regretted that the loss of one of their wives and widow of Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi, Lady Victoria Aguiyi- Ironsi had necessitated the low-key celebration of yam in Ibekuland, adding “Covid-19 and herdsmen did not stop Ibeku communities from producing enough food for the clan. There was no hindrance. We produced enough”.
He disclosed that Traditional Prime Ministers in the South-East are doing enough to ensure that Igbo language does not go into extinction by ensuring that the language is part of the school curriculum in the southeast, adding that currently, the language is being taught in foreign countries, including the US.
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