Levi Ifeanacho
MANAGEMENT PAYS COURTESY VISITS ON TRADITIONAL RULERS OF THE INSTITUTE'S HOST COMMUNITIES
The Executive Director, Prof. Ogbonna Onuoha, accompanied by members of Management and a few other staff, had just paid end-of-year courtesy visits on traditional rulers of the Institute’s host communities. The courtesy calls began with the visit to the Eze-elect of Akumaimo Ancient Kingdom, Chief Emeka Onwuka, on Tuesday in his country home at Mbara Ugba.
The courtesy visits, according to the ED, were part of efforts in keeping to his promise of maintaining and sustaining cordial and harmonious relations with the indigenes of the Institute’s host communities at both campuses as a prerequisite for peaceful and conducive environment for the Institute’s growth and progress.
Prof. Onuoha requested Chief Onwuka and his Youth Leader, Mr. Ndubuisi Onyekwere, to mobilize able-bodied young men in his community for engagement in clearing a cross-section of the Institute to create visibility in return for financial rewards to empower them for christmas and end-of-year expenses.
The Eze-elect, Chief Onwuka, thanked the ED for the visit and pledged to support the Institute’s Management in actualizing the mandate for which NINLAN was established.
The courtesy visits continued on Wednesday as Prof. Onuoha and members of Management visited His Royal Highness, Eze Oha II of Ovom Ama Iri na Abuo, Eze Chetachi Chinyere.
The ED appreciated Eze Chinyere for the prayers he made for the progress of the Institute on the day he first set his foot on the Institute. He noted that the Institute was reaching new horizons, under his watch, and sought the Eze’s continued prayers and support.
He added that it was the decision of the Institute’s Management to empower the indigenes of the host communities by ensuring that the Institute’s contractors reached out to them for building supplies and skilled or unskilled labour.
Eze Chinyere assured the ED of his continued support to and prayers for his administration.
“My prayers are that you will achieve your set goals before the end of your tenure. This is the first visit of an Executive Director of NINLAN to my palace since my installation as a royal father twenty years ago. Do things right and leave an enviable legacy. May God bless you and the Institute.”
The ED and his entourage proceeded to the palace of the Okahia 1 of Umuokahia 1 autonomous community, His Royal Majesty, Eze O. J. Ananaba, the traditional ruler of the land donors of the Institute’s City campus, who had shelved a meeting of elite South-East traditional rulers holding at Enugu because of the visit.
“We are here to foster collaboration and cordial relations with host communities of the Institute”, began the ED.
“Umuokahia 1 is the ancestral home of the Institute. It harboured the defunct Federal School of Arts and Science, Aba. which is now our City campus. The Institute now is not like the Institute before. We can now source fund for development from TETfund. This has not been the case for over eighteen years. Our visit is to demonstrate the regard we have for the role and place of the Institute’s host communities in the development of NINLAN. We are grateful to you for the interest and regard you have for NINLAN. If not, you would not have cancelled your scheduled trip to receive us”, continued Prof. Onuoha.
Eze Ananaba warmly welcomed the Executive Director and members of Management. He pledged his maximum support to the ED to ensure he succeeds.
“My primary interest is to make sure that the Institute will grow. Anything that will make it grow, I will be part of it. My prayer is that it will become a full fledged university”, he said.
The Eze urged members of Management to work in harmony with the ED to move the Institute forward.
With the traditional ruler to receive the ED and his Management team were His Royal Majesty. Eze Richard Chukwuemeka; Youth President of the community and his Deputy. Engr Ndubuisi Olewe and Mr. Onyenduzi Nwozichi Gabriel; Chief of Taskforce, Boniface Tony Uhegwu.
All members of Management were part of the ED’s entourage.
Godson. I. Ugbor
Public Relations Officer.
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