Wednesday, June 12, 2024 -Six masquerades accused of beating people and going against the ban on parading themselves on market days have been arrested at Okwor Ngbo market in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
It was gathered that leaders of the Ngbo community had earlier warned
the youths to stop using masquerades to harass and disturb market women and
collect money from them.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Speaker of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Hon. Onah
Chinedu Ogba, who spearheaded the ban, has said that he is not against
masquerade display.
The Deputy Speaker in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media,
Joshua Ebenyi, said any masquerade caught in Okwo Market and major roads will
face the wrath of the law.
“Rt Hon Onah Chinedu Ogba the Deputy Speaker of Ebonyi State and an illustrious
son of Abarigwe Umuogudu Oshia Ngbo in Ohaukwu Local Government Area has today
expressed his ill feelings towards the constant parading of masquerades in Okwo
Market and the major roads of Ngboejeogu and had called it a mayhem and a
bridge to the successful trading in the general market,” the statement read.
“We are not in any way preaching against the cultural displays such as
masquerading but it should be on our various village squares and playground.
Okwo market is a place for exchange of goods and services and host people from
different place and cultural backgrounds and masquerading distracts the
business activities and subjects people to unnecessary tense and running around
which has led many to sustaining serious injuries and therefore should be
stopped entirely,”
"Consequently, it has been aired and further announced that any masquerade
caught around the aforementioned places will face the wrath of the law as
hoodlums use the opportunity to display their cultic fracas, witch-hunt people
and further give people injuries which is the opposite of the original intents
of our forefathers.
“More so, all the native doctors in Okwo market are also advised to take all
their activities and enchantments out from okwo market but to their different
destinations as anyone caught in such an act will have more regrets than gains.”
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