Peace Pivotal For Community Development
– Gov. Soludo Tells Chief Ndigwe
Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has stressed the importance of peace to the progress and development of any community, state or nation.
The Governor was speaking when he honoured an invitation to an event hosted by Chief Austine Ndigwe in Awka, maintained that no meaningful development will take place in any society bedeviled by bitterness and rancour.
According to Soludo, his topmost priority to make Anambra State liveable and prosperous also applies to Awka, the seat of government.
He expressed his desire to live in Awka peacefully as a Governor and also after his tenure, and also stay in Awka after his stewardship, therefore, would want peace to reign supreme.
Noting that his friendship with Chief Ndigwe has spanned for many years, the Governor however, re-emphasized the need to allow peace to reign in Awka by allowing the only Government certified traditional ruler, Obi Gibson Nwosu, to exist as the authentic traditional ruler of the town.
He made it clear that Anambra State has laws which clearly stipulate how to enthrone a traditional ruler.
The Governor cautioned, “In the laws of Anambra, the only traditional ruler the government will recognize is the person with Certificate of Recognition as the traditional ruler of the town.
“The laws of Anambra State has it that the rightful traditional ruler of a community is the person with the certificate.
“If a community selects you to be their Igwe, then, the government must issue you with a certificate before you emerge the Igwe accordingly.
“So as it is in Awka today, the only Igwe we recognize as the Igwe is still the person with the Certificate of Recognition, in the person of Obi Gibson Nwosu.”
“Now I am telling my friend to cool down because there is a today and there is a tomorrow; if we remember that there is death, we will thread with caution.
“We are birds of passage and afterwards it is the work we did that we will be remembered for; but one fundamental thing that is more than me and everybody here is that when we go, Awka and Anambra will remain,” Governor Soludo asserted.
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