The National President of Oriuzor Youth’s Vanguard for good governance, Igiri Innocent has called on traditional rulers and political and religious leaders to think towards the emancipation of the community from poverty, illiteracy and cultism bedeviling the community.
According to Tribune online, Igiri was reacting to the growing spate of cultism and maladministration, illiteracy and poverty rocking the Oriuzor community in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
According to him, it is expedient for leaders of the area to come together to restore the glory of the once shining community.
He said, “Oriuzor in Ezza North is my home. And no place like home. My home needs serious intervention. That community has been bedevilled by many factors ranging from cultism to illiteracy and poverty, which is mostly attributed to the kind of leaders in charge of the People’s affairs.
“Everything in Oriuzor revolves around some few certain ancient non-adventurous families or persons who are good people but need a total thinking faculty change.
“Oriuzor is a special community in the heart of Ezza Ezekuna and need not be lagging behind in community progress and development index as expected of such a community in the 21st century.
“Communitys of the same equality in other parts of the state and country are busy embracing smart tech, AI, and other serious inventions of the time. Is our own different? Who did we offend? Where are we not getting it right?
“I want to encourage our traditional rulers, political and religious leaders in Oriuzor as a whole to do more to bring Oriuzor to the shining spot of the state of Ebonyi”, he said.
