The Ikemba Ojukwu Centre has advanced plans to advocate compulsory
learning of Igbo language at its forthcoming conference next month in Owerri,
Imo State, reports ITRealms.
The Centre, ITRealms gathered has on top of its agenda, the
strategy for a private member bill to be sent to Houses of Assembly in the
South Eastern part of the country aimed at making the teaching of Igbo language
compulsory in all schools in Igboland.
ITRealms also gathered, the Houses of Assembly are to conduct
their sessions in Igbo language at least thrice a week.
The Ikemba Ojukwu Centre, Owerri, further lamented that Igbos who
were on the commanding heights of the military, politics, academia and commerce
before Nigeria’s independence were now at the lowest rung in the nation’s
socio-political and economic development.
The Director-General of the centre, Dr. Samfo Nwankwo, at another
confab in Umuahia, Abia State, Thursday pointed out that Igbo people are suffering
cultural identity crisis, as the Igbo language was on the verge of extinction.
Nwankwo decried that after a painful analysis of what has been the
lot of the Igbo recently, the centre, decided to convoke an emergency
conference, which involved all prominent Igbos and groups, to know where the
problem arose and why.
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