Ebonyi state government has declared 5th of September every year as
public holiday.
Governor David Umahi,announced this on Thursday,during the commencement of
a prayer and fasting session,organised by his government to mark the
peaceful settlement of the land dispute between Ezillo and Ezza Ezillo in
Ishielu local Government Area.
Umahi,who said the three-day event would be climaxed with the symbolic
planting of tree of peace at Ezillo on Monady, noted that Nigerians and
their leaders must remain focused and pray fervently to turn around
the nation’s economy .
” By Monday,we will go to Ezillo and plant a tree of peace in the land of
Ebonyi. And it shall be that on the 5th of every September,we gather as a
state and declare public holiday and celebrate the peace of the state,” he
said in a statement on Friday by his Chief Press Secretary,Emma Anya.
Umahi recalled that his administration had at its inception declared
seven-day prayer and fasting to enthrone peace in the state,particularly
in the two waring communities.
In a homely,the special Assistant to the Governor on Religious Matters and
Welfare,Rev.Father Abraham Nwali,prophetically declared permanent return
of peace to the land of Ezillo and Ezza/Ezillo, stressing that the Prince
of peace,who is Jesus Christ, was in control as his birth signified
peace and total reconciliation.
Nwali called on the leaders and the led to remain symbols of peace in
their day- to -day activities,stressing that without peace no man can
see God.
Intercessory prayers for the sustenance of peace in the land of Ebonyi
and the country at large were offered.
It will be recalled that the peace committee set up by the state
government had on Tuesday this week submitted its report to the governor.