Imo: Women group vows to save Igbo language, culture

A socio-cultural group, Ogbako Umunwayi Igbo Worldwide, OUIW, has sworn that they will never allow Igbo language and culture go into extinction.

The Igbo women group said it was poised to fault the earlier prediction by UNESCO, an international agency, that the people’s language would soon cease to exist.

Speaking during the event organised by Ogbako Umunwayi Igbo Worldwide Foundation in Owerri, the founder and President, Eziada Ifeoma Nwadike, said the Igbos should join hands to fight the extinction of the language.

She urged women to be good ambassadors of their families and contribute towards restoring the values and ideals of the Igbo society.

She frowned at a situation where parents and teachers punished children for speaking Igbo.

The founder of Ogbako Umunwayi Igbo Worldwide Foundation decried the rate at which the Igbo were relegating their language, customs and culture.

Her words, “Ogbako Umunwayi Igbo Worldwide Foundation is saddled with the responsibility to bring to the fore, Igbo tradition, values, ideals and cultural heritage both at home and in the diaspora.”

A former governor of Imo State, Chief Achike Udenwa, who was represented by a former commissioner of health, Dr Vincent Udokwu urged the woman to keep playing their pivotal role in the Igbo society and pledged to support the organisation.

The event featured the inauguration of its Imo State Chapter.

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