Lohum community women hold August, commend Mrs. Ikpeazu

The women of Lohum Imenyi Autonomous Community in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State at the weekend held their maiden August women conference, otherwise known as August meeting.

The women also expressed their appreciation to the wife of the state governor, Deaconess Nkechi Ikpeazu, for the motivation of community women in the state over the conferences.

In her speech, the Lohum Community Woman Leader, Nnenna Nnorom, said the initiation of the conference will enable the community women who are mostly farmers “to move away from poverty” through the formation of cooperative societies that would afford them the opportunity of attracting foreign and government assistance to them and the community as a whole.

Earlier in his speech, President-General of Lohum Imenyi community and chairman of the occasion, Comrade Ikwuagwu Ndukwe, described the community as united, while congratulating the women over the occasion.

He urged them to use the occasion to reflect back on their roles in the family and should often ask questions about their performance in the family and make corrections, where necessary.

He asked them to queue behind the wife of the state governor, Deaconess Nkechi Ikpeazu, who, alongside the governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has done well in the state, as well as form themselves into cooperatives to be able to access funds that will assist them on their daily businesses.

Expressing happiness during the occasion, the traditional ruler of the community, HRH Eze Mark Iweha Ebochuogu expressed happiness that the wife of the state governor, Deaconess Nkechi Ikpeazu, is leading Abia women.

Eze Ebochuogu said that one who married a bad wife is finished as the home is the base of everything, hence when a woman is trained, an entire family has been trained, regretting that religion has eroded many traditions which the August women conference seeks to return.

He thanked the wife of the state governor, Nkechi ikpeazu, for going through the three senatorial zones in the state to urge women to return home and invest in their communities.

According to a stakeholder in the affairs of the community and former state Peoples Democratic Party functionary, Uchechi Ogbuka, the August meeting was an avenue to show off wealth in the past, noting however that it is now an avenue for women to contribute to the development or the country.

While congratulating the Lohum Imenyi women on the occasion, Ogbuka called on them to sustain the event, and thanked Mrs. Ikpeazu over her transformation efforts through the August meetings.