Ban on all cultural festivities in Igboland still stands – Chairman, South-East monarchs

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The prohibition on all cultural celebrations in Igboland remains in effect, according to Eze E.C. Okeke, the head of the Southeast Council of Traditional Rulers and the traditional ruler of the Amaifeke Ancient Royalty.

According to him, the area is still in sorrow for the deaths of its distinguished sons and daughters, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Ifeanyi Ubah, Ogbonnaya Onu, and Ngozi Onwenu, respectively in this region.

According to a press release he personally signed, it became necessary to formally notify the general public—particularly the heads of various Igbo associations and organisations in Igboland, which includes the five South East States—that the South East Council of Traditional Rulers and Ohaneze Ndigbo had since declared a period of mourning in honour of the great children of Igboland who passed away this year and have been successfully buried.

According to Eze Okeke, different events and ceremonies that were previously planned to commemorate the annual Igbo New Yam festival for 2024 had to be cancelled due to the weight of what happened in losing such significant Igbo leaders in such a short period of time and the pain it has caused across the wide spectrum of Igbo society. These events typically involve Ohaneze Ndigbo, State Governments, Traditional Rulers, and other important stakeholders of Igbo extraction.

He claimed that if the region had continued to hold such a concentrated celebration when it should have been grieving and sobering over the “calamitous loss of top Igbo leaders,” it would have amounted to self-loathing and blatant insensitivity to Ndigbo.

“We shall consider whoever that violates or attempts to breach this sacred decision as a great enemy of Ndigbo and may go further to request for explanations if such a recalcitrant person or group knows what happened to these great men and woman that transited at our most difficult time, when their presence obviously mattered most,” he cautioned.

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