Erosion of Cultural Value, Troubling the Ibusa Community, Peter Uwajeh

- Emeka Esogbue

A prominent indigene of Ibusa, a community in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr Peter Uwajeh has attributed the current impasse confronting the community to erosion of cultural value.

"What is bedeviling us today is largely the erosion of cultural values," Uwajeh said pointedly.

"Perhaps, we should also look at the languages we deploy when expressing anger or displeasure on issues."

"I don't dignify people with responses to offensive languages against me."

"I have been very worried that for a town so blessed with human and material resources, it is difficult to experience growth."

Mr Peter Uwajeh was reacting to a statement earlier posted in Umejei Descendants, a WhatsApp forum

Lamenting the loss of cultural values in the community, Peter Uwajeh from the Umueze axis of the community recalled how he was stopped from playing with a boy because the boy's father was ostracized by the community.

"The same Ibusa is where my late mum brought me from Ibadan on a visit in 1962 and I was stopped from playing with a boy of my age because the father was ostracized for stealing a tuber of yam in the farm, is the same place where there are serious issues on illegal sales of land in almost all the villages."

Engulfed in indiscriminate and illegal sales of land and other cultural crises, prominent sons and daughters of the community have been speaking up on the way out of the limbo.

Mr Peter Uwajeh called for an usher of peace and unity to enable the community to experience growth.

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