Omor Community in Ayamelum Council Area has celebrated its 2022 New Yam Festival amidst joy and thanksgiving to God.
Performing the ceremony, the traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Chris Chidume supervised the roasting of the new yam and its sauce as well as declaring it ready for consumption
The community used the New Yam Festival to showcase its rich cultural heritage including the Egbenoba Hunters dance group which showed the community’s prowess in hunting, its Police Masquerade for enforcement of law and order as well as different crafts the people of the town are known for.
Earlier, the youths purified the community of any unholiness or shame with the popular Isato Omor Masquerade Group before the cutting of the new yam .
Speaking at the ceremony , Igwe Chidume said that the feast provided them the opportunity to commune together, pray and thank God for a fruitful farming season, peace and unity in the state and country at large.
For the leader of the oldest men and kingmakers in the town, Chief Obuorah Nnamekwuba, it is a time to assess their youth’s activeness and make amends on individuals’ or groups’ shortcomings.
The chairman, Anambra State Traditional Ruler’s Council, who is also the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, who spoke through Ononaenyi Obi, expressed satisfaction with the sustainability of Omor Culture and Tradition.
A daughter of the community, Miss Adorah Chidumeh described the festival as entertaining especially from the numerous cultural dance troupes and asked young girls and boys in the diaspora to endeavor to visit home and participate in the festival noting that there is no place like home.
The Anambra State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Mr. Tony Nwabuwanne, an Enugwu-Ukwu born industrialist, Austin Oguejiofor, former Commissioner for Environment, Architect Mike Okonkwo, National Chairman of Anambra State Association of Town Unions, Chief Titus Akpudo, security agencies, academia, religious leaders, captains of industry, and groups were all in attendance to pay homage to the traditional ruler.
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