The Igala Cultural Development Association (ICDA) Interim Committee, has appealed to enlisted Board of Trustees (BOT) members to guard against being drawn into controversies that would smear the image of the Igala nation and the organisation.
Chief Samuel Oyibo, chairman of the association, made the appeal in a statement he jointly signed with the association’s Secretary, Barr William Ameh, and made available to newsmen on Thursday in Lokoja.
Oyibo noted that the activities of the defunct ICDA executive created serious internal wranglings and made the association vulnerable, thereby attracting the intervention of the Late Attah-Igala, Dr Micheal Idakwo Ameh-Oboni II, who joined his ancestors recently.
“It is in the best interest of the Igala nation to do things right and avoid public ridicule and disrepute that will smear the name of Igala nation deeper in the ‘oasis of shame’,” he cautioned.
He stressed that some of the enlisted Board members by the defunct ICDA executive were valuable sons of the kingdom and were being held in a high esteem, and called on the newly-enlisted members of the BOT not to allow themselves to be dragged into the mud and dust of controversy raised by the disbanded ICDA executive committee.
“However, the concerned and members of the public should note that the board of Trustees of ICDA is a registered body,” he stressed.
Meanwhile, the interim committee has stated that the body was on course with the assignment given to it, adding that at the appropriate time, it would submit its report for an enduring ICDA that would lift the Igala nation. (NAN)
