By our correspondent
The National President Mumuye Cultural Development Association youth wing Ntari Danladi Hassan has stressed the need for the Mumuye Ethnic group in Taraba to shun all forms of religious and Political Sentiment.
The President Ntari Danladi stated this on Tuesday at the lunching of “Ruban Mumuye Almanac and magazine” ceremony in Jalingo.
He said Mumuye Ethnics have been divided along political and religious line which have affected growth of Mumuye nation in all ramifications of the state and the nation.
The president further said youth who are the vehicle for social transformation, should embrace peace to enable them be the vanguard of positive change.
According to the President “the idea of the Almanac is made to export the cultural and natural haritage endowed in Mumuye land”.
Also speaking , the guest speaker who is a senior lecturer with the Taraba state University Jalingo, Dr. Jerom Nymeh emphasis on the level at which Mumuye Youth are advancing in academics saying, education is the only tool that is capable of transforming the life of an individual and the community.
Dr Jerom tasked the youth to engage in entrepreneurship to make them self reliant.
According to the Dr. poverty is responsible for the division among the Mumuye people and said the only medium to fight poverty is through entrepreneurship.
Reviewing the Almanac and magazine Ezekiel Augustine said the almanac contains the days and months of the year represented by symbolic festive period, crops, and landscape of Mumuye land.
