Anambra: A Cultural Revolution Has Begun!

In 2021, some of us were tagged haters, poor and busy body when we spotted a redflag with the lavish burial of Obinna Iyiegbu’s (Obi Cubana) mother in Oba, idemili South LGA. Today, that once quiet town has not remained the same again after the obscene sensitization of young people who now stumble because someone had to show the full might of his opulence at what should be a solemn and decent outing.

Well, it was Lee Kuan Yu who noted that for real social and economic development, the government must intervene on even very personal issues like the we way talk, eat, dress and generally behave. Else we become a banana republic. Just like intentional parenting, there has to be intentional governance that must focus on entrenching the right value system for the people.

The new mantra for us, if there is a lesson we have learnt from the Soludos with the Burial of their Patriarch, Pa. Simeon Nwankwo Soludo, is that we must strive to give the living a “befitting living” and the dead a “decent burial” devoid of obscene opulence. While there is a law in place in this regard, there is much more with the exemplary leadership Gov. Soludo has shown. He has successfully established the nexus between “governance and value system”.

From the feelers I have gathered, a cultural revolution has begun in Anambra that will rapidly spread across the Southeast region and beyond.

— Mazi Ejimofor Opara writes from Awka, Anambra State.