The United Nations Peace Ambassador Eze Njoku, has urged people of the South East zone (Ndigbo) to preserve their culture and tradition. He explained that their culture and tradition remain their national and global emblems.

Njoku made this known in Ejigbo, area of Lagos to mark new yam/ofala festival celebration 2023. He noted that the people of the South East have the capacity to reshape their current realities for better governance, security of homeland and rapid development and will benefit immensely from value driven foundations.

He said: “Our culture and tradition remain our national and global emblems, for which no one denies, nor any entity able to take away from us yet. So, we must preserve them tenaciously, develop them exponentially and improve on them digitally, because global competitiveness is about ideas and its powers to transform”.

Njoku stated that people of South East are people with admirable resilience and competences. “It is our historic and cultural provenance that we must keep aflame to attract and enlighten current and future generations”.

He said: “We should not allow our culture and tradition to suffer human entropy, but continue to inject into them sustainable energies of diverse capabilities. This is important, because like the good book said, the harvest is plenty, but the labourers are few. I therefore call on Ndigbo, especially the youth, to rise and locate their common point of service to their nationality and pitch their talents to uplift their homeland”.

“We know and agree that there are works to be done, and our resolve is to do our best”.