Shuaibu Usman
The Aren Eggon, Justice Ahmed Ubangari Alaku Rtd, has sued for sustainable peace and development in the Eggon Nation and the country through mutual co-existence amongst the nation’s diverse ethnic extractions.
Justice Alaku Rtd, paramount ruler of the Eggon ethnic nationality, asked the people to uphold the true virtues of the Eggonland that prescribes culture development, peace, unity and heritage preservation with a view to leaving an enduring legacy and spur the progress of the nation.
He disclosed this during a special event marking the end of Eid-el-Fitr celebrations in Nasarawa Eggon Local Government of Nasarawa State.
He urged the people to embrace one another irrespective of their backgrounds as a mark of unity to engender progress which he said was significant for the full actualization of the Nation’s interest and priority.
Dressed in his white cultural regalia depicting an originally native Eggon man, the monarch challenged his subjects to emulate the culture of providing communal support to government in promoting the delivery of dividends of democracy and improved social services that have direct bearing on the locals.
In an address, Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Danladi Jatau, renewed the legislature’s continued pledge to collaborate with the state’s traditional institution for sustainable peaceful co-existence and economic well-being of the populace.
Jatau said the nation’s ethnic groups are fast losing their cultural heritage due to foreign language domination, stressing that Nasarawa has rich cultural history and value that should be rejuvenated and preserved for unborn generations.
He called on the joyous mammoth crowd to be law-abiding to constituted authorities, noting that the government would work round the clock to address insecurity and other issues threatening the society as Governor Abdullahi Sule sustained his administration’s quest for sustainable peace and development.
On his part, one of the illustrious sons of Eggonland, Danladi Halilu Envulu-Anza, said the time for politics was over, calling on the gathering to see themselves as one family to pursue the cause of governance.
Envulu-anza, a renowned philanthropist who spoke in Eggon language, urged the people to stand by their leaders to attract more people-oriented developments in the area.
The frontline event underscored invaluable contributions of cultural diversity and unity in the realization good governance and people-oriented leadership resonating the cause of peace and sustainable growth, r-emphasising the power of love to redefine and remind the citizenry of the unifying purpose of existence as a nation and to activate the spirit of social inclusion as advocated by the speakers.