OROKAM NOT MARGINALIZE : Comrade Agada Johnson

Ogbdibo cultural carnival is a celebration of love and peace among the people of Ogbadibo local government to promote the traditional value of the people’s heritage. According to the organizer of the cultural carnival, Comrade Johnson Agada said recently in interview in Lagos that the carnival is not a community project, it’s a professional business with people from across the state and outside the local government, it’s not a matter of orokam being marginalize, Orokam can never be left out in such a gigantic project, because Orokam is a very important community in Ogbadibo. ‘’A center working committee is yet to be formed and when formed, we will have equal people from all three district, but what we have now are just working committee to bring the project at least to a solid stage before having a central working committee and must people working for the success of this project are from Orokam. We have met with elders in orokam and we have their blessings and I am begging all sons and daughters of Ogbadibo to put aside our differences, come out and work together for the success of Ogbadibo cultural carnival. Ogbadibo cultural carnival is an initiative to enlighten the people of Ogbadibo local government in Benue State about the norms and value of the people. Comrade Johnson further said, the cultural heritage of the people of Ogbabido is dying, Ogbadibo naturally is known to be a traditional land (Alekwu) but due to lack of knowledge our people within and in diaspora keeps dying as a result of going against the customs of the land. The Ogbadibo cultural carnival was initiated to help return back the lost glory of the land and to cub social menace in our society such as cultism, killing for ritual purposes, abortion, kidnapping, stealing and disrespect for elders, the gods forbid all this doing, and right now I can tell you the gods are angry with us all, all this are not part of our customs and tradition, even our leaders are not helping the youths, they use them and dump them all in the name of politics and selfish reason and their children are all outside the country or state doing fine but through this year cultural carnival celebration, we need to promote our culture and tell our people where they got it all wrong and we are going to start from the traditional angle because must traditional rulers bribe their ways into office and as such don’t lead with all fairness and truth. For instance our elders collect money to support Fulani’s, look at the result now, the Fulani’s have dominated all most all our lands, they marry our girls and gave birth and even name their children after us, all this are the reasons for Ogbabido cultural carnival rather than thinking about marginalization or not, but I am categorically telling you now that nobody, no district or clans is being marginalize.