Onitsha South to resuscitate Masquerade carnival 

By Cyprian Ebele, Onitsha 

The council  mayor of Onitsha South Local Government Area, Anambra  State Emeka Orji, has vowed to resuscitate masquerade carnival in the area as it was in the 80s and 90s.

Orji who made the disclosure  during the Onitsha South Communities meeting held at Woliwo community, stated further that the carnival is such that has never happened anywhere before, going by the way it is being planned.

According to him, “Those in Onitsha in those years could remember that such was held at Zik’s Avenue and we want to bring it back in a grand style, not the way it used to be.

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“Every Community in Onitsha South, Onitsha North, Okpoko,:others should come with their masquerades, dance troupes and  would purchase forms for participants who would like to sell drinks, dry meat and other eatables, drinkables, music , others  and we have formed a screening committee to checkmate the participants’ aims to know if they are the same with ours.

“Prizes for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions for communities who their masquerades have performed creditably, we are considering the week probably after the Igwe Achebe’s Ofala festival so that it would be a culture in Onitsha South which normally happens a week after the Igwe Achebe Ofala’s festival.

In their separate remarks, the president generals of Fegge, Housing Estate, Odoakpu and Woliwo, Okwudili Obinwune,  Afam Udeogalanya, Okey Ojiudu and Ifeanyi Onwuegbuchunam respectively applauded the Mayor for bringing them together for the development of the area.