By Abdulwahab Abdulah & Monsur Olowopejo

LAGOS—Governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, has frowned on the fast rate Igbo culture and language were giving way to western culture.

Consequently, the governor charged the people to be cautious of promoting their culture and heritage.

Speaking through the state Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr. Ozor Mammel, at the 19th edition of Enugu State Cultural day, organised by Enugu State Development Unions, AESDU, in Lagos yesterday, the governor noted that recent events and development showed that Igbo people across the globe would prefer to communicate with their children or brothers in languages not their own than take pride in the Igbo dialect.

According to him, this development has almost affected both the educational and cultural system of Igbo nation.
He commended the efforts of the Igbos from Enugu State for being consistent in their annual cultural day.

Calling on them to lay more emphasis on training the young ones in western education, he urged that more attention be paid to traditional culture and language to save the Igbo language from going into oblivion.

In his address at the programme, that prominently featured Igbo  traditional dancing and festivals, President of AESDU, Chief Chris Nweke, called on stakeholders from the South East to close ranks in order to make the creation of more states from the region in the on-going constitution amendment a reality.

He said his union was in support of the debate