Youths in Ekiti State have been called upon to ensure a code of cultural dressing as a way of exhibiting their love for the rich Ekiti culture and protect its residual cultural inheritance.
Director General, Ekiti State Council for Arts and Culture, Ambassador Wale Ojo Lanre made this clarion call during a courtesy visit of members of the Ekiti Youth Parliament to his office in Ado-Ekiti.
Expressing his displeasure at the rate at which the values of Ekiti are being eroded, Ojo Lanre urged members of the Youth Parliament to work with team spirit and in collective interest with Ekiti youths and by extension the Nigerian youths, calling on them to showcase the best of Ekiti dialect, values, arts and dress culture in their day to day activities.
He charged the body to reciprocate the gesture of the Dr. Kayode Fayemi-led administration for giving them the opportunity to be identified with governance by serving as linkage between the young and the old.
He however assured the body of the Council’s readiness to partner with it in all its endeavours.
Earlier, the Speaker of the Ekiti Youth Parliament, Rt. Hon. Toba Fatunla, commended Dr. Kayode Fayemi-led administration’s efforts to bring up youths in the act of governance in relation to policy formulation and decision making as it affects the youths.
Fatunla, who said the Body, was at the Council to familiarize itself with its activities, canvassed for integration of the Body into the Council with a promise to take such to the grass root.
The present Ekiti Youth Parliament which is the third Assembly with 26 Honourable members, 2 Clerks and 1 sergeant at arms was inaugurated on September 20th by the present administration, with a view to giving voice to the youths on things that concern the youths at present and in the future, to serve as linkage between the young and the old as well as to enable youths be conversant with the laws and policies of
