Yoruba community requests land from Gov Ugwuanyi to build cultural centre
by Moses Oyediran, Enugu The people of Yorubaland living in Enugu, Enugu State under the aegis, The Yoruba Community (TYC) have appealed to Enugu State Government for a parcel land to build her cultural centre in the state. The Head of Yoruba Community in Enugu, Chief Ade Johnson Adeyelu who disclosed this in his office in Enugu, Monday, said that for many years they had approached the Governors of the State to approve their request to no avail. Adeyelu said that since Gov. Ugwuanyi came into office, they have been trying to re-establish relationship with the government so that their request could be accented to this time around, He said that they had approached former governors Chimaroke Nnamani as well as Sullivan Chime but that they were yet to get a positive answer. “We want them to give us land around Polo area to build our cultural centre so that Yoruba people coming to Enugu especially during trade fairs could see a place to stay instead of lodging in hotels,” the Yoruba leader said. According to him, in 2005, they wrote the then governor, Chimaroke Nnamani requesting that a parcel of land be approved for them for the project and repeated in 2006 and even paid courtesy visit on the former governor Sullivan Chime to no avail up till this day. He said that at a stage, ex-governor Nnamani promised to give them the land but never did. One of the letters they wrote to former Governor Nnamani reads thus: “We salute you and your administration in the name of God and the progenitor of the Yoruba race, Oduduwa. “We thank your Excellency for the courtesy call you granted the Yoruba Community on the 14th of November 2006. These courtesy calls have made it possible for us to renew our request and the promises your Excellency made.” “We have written so many letters right from the time of Chimaroke Nnamani. We made the same request during Sullivan Chime and if we have the opportunity, we shall make the same request to Gov. Ugwuanyi,” Adeyelu disclosed.
