Gov Nwifuru warns kinsmen against selling ancestral lands, graves

Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has warned the radical of Izhi Nnodo clan against the indiscriminate merchantability of ancestral lands, household compounds and burial grounds, saying specified practices could marque them strangers successful their ain homeland.

Nwifuru issued the informing at the weekend in Amagu, the ancestral location of Izhi Nnodo, during the expansive finale of the Ojiji Izhi New Yam Festival, wherever helium besides cautioned against the erosion of indigenous values successful the sanction of religion, modernity oregon governmental expediency.

The politician said ancestral onshore was not simply a commodity but represented the history, individuality and corporate representation of the people, urging families to sphere inherited properties for generations yet unborn.

“I person seen situations wherever radical merchantability not lone household lands but adjacent the burial grounds and ancestral compounds of their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers.

“Such actions are regrettable due to the fact that they disregard the sacrifices and struggles done which our ancestors secured these lands,” Nwifuru said ...