Apologise To Governor’s Wife, Okigwe Women, Group Tells NMA Onyechere

For apparently engaging in what it described as sabotage to the age-long traditional identity and culture of Okigwe people, a group known as the Okigwe Advancement Forum, has advised the state Commissioner for Women Affairs, Lady Nma Love Onyechere, to as a matter of necessity, tender an unreserved public apology to the wife of the state Governor, Mrs Nneoma Nkechi Okorocha and the entire women of Okigwe local government area.

Lady Nma Onyechere, it was reported had allegedly facilitated the hiring of women dance troupe from Amasiri-Afikpo of Ebonyi state, in stout defiance to the original female cultural dance of the people of Okigwe area, to perform at this year's August meeting which attracted guests at the event.

However, irked by the unpalatable conduct of the female Commissioner, the women it was also reported angrily beseeched the Palace of the chairman, Okigwe council of traditional rulers, HRM Eze Ugochukwu, where they interrupted the council meeting to petition the Commissioner.

Reacting to the development, the Okigwe Advancement Forum through its chairman, Chief Isaac Uchendu, cautioned Nma Onyechere, against flagrant disregard of the age-long cultural values of Okigwe people and urged her to further refrain from such act which he said, could pitch her against the custodians of the people's culture.

He asserted that it was in the interest of the female commissioner to apologize to the Governor's wife for deliberately deceiving her into believing that the women who performed at the August meeting event were Okigwe women, as well as the Okigwe women in general for the insult meted out to them.

According to him, the public apology became necessary because if it were in the advanced countries, such grievous offence bothering on sheer deceit would have been accompanied with outright resignation, as the commissioner had eroded the confidence reposed in her by the people of the state, especially, the governor's wife and the female folk which she is expected to protect at all times.