News'Don't Allow Igbo Language to Go Into Extinction’

‘Don’t Allow Igbo Language to Go Into Extinction’

The Traditional ruler of Ihim Autonomous community in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, His Royal Majesty, HRM, Eze Dr Oliver Ohanwe (Obi- Gbururugburu), has frowned at the rate at which Igbo language appears to be going into extinction- especially in families and schools in the Southeast States.

Eze Ohanwe, who is the Board Chairman of the Governing Council, Benjamin Uwajumogu College of Education, Ihitte- Uboma, said this in Owerri, during an interview with our reporter, Saturday.

He decried the manner by which primary schools’ teachers have shied away from one of their major responsibilities of teaching the pupils on how to read, write and speak Igbo language, which according to him, has apparently died out.

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The Monarch, said, ” I want Imo State government to return primary school teachers back to the Benjamin Uwajumogu College of Education, Ihitte-Uboma, for refresher courses on Igbo language, of which he noted, would help them to communicate people fluently in with the language.

He continued, “Those teachers that taught our children the Igbo language in those days had all retired from service, while some are aged”. Children are nolonger taught how to communicate with “Ilu, Ukwe, Akuko Ifo and others that promote our culture and tradition.”

Eze Ohanwe noted, that the Yoruba, Hausa; saying even the minority groups promote their mother tongues and however wondered why the Igbo should not be proud of their language.

He therefore pleaded with the Igbo- speaking states, Imo, Enugu, Abia, Anambra and Ebonyi, to always project the language in their day-to-day interactions, urging them to make use of it as a tool to promote unity of purpose, peace and oneness among Ndigbo.

“Language embodies culture and other values of the native speakers, and that native speakers ought to communicate in their mother tongues to their children to save the languages from going extinct,” the Monarch advised.

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