EBIRA-VONYA INTERNATIONAL (EVI)
Motto: “Avuvobe - One People, One Family winning together”
Background and Introduction to the Organisation.
For many years, those of us outside our motherland and community
have been pondering and wondering what role we can collectively
play to support the hard works on going at home on all our
behalfves while we have been sheltered and cocooned away in
another man’s country and not really being involved with the
realities of life faced by our people every day. We believe that
the time has come when we have to come out of our comfort zones
and get our hands dirty in the reality of life which our people
and community face and deal with everyday.
In the past fifteen or so years, Ebira Community in Great
Britain has been meeting and bringing all Ebira people together.
The same can be said to be true in Germany, USA, Russia, China
and in many other parts of the world. However, in the last one
year as part of a global concern shared by all of our people,
Ebira Vonya International (EVI) was formed. EVI is a mass
movement of all well meaning Ebira people committed to peace and
prosperity for our people and community. EVI aims to bring all
Ebira people all over the world to work together for the social,
economic and political advancement of our beloved Ebira
community.
There is a great anxiety amongst all the Ebira people in the
Diaspora and in fact everywhere that as a people we seem to have
lost our direction and probably heading in the wrong direction
to a point of no return. There is, of course, a genuine reason
to agonise over the the disintergration of our community values
today because some of our community leaders have tended to put
their selfish personal egos and party political influences first
before the interests of the people and community and as a result
the whole community and people have been sacrificed in the
process.
In the last ten years and certainly in most recent times we have
all seen and witnessed how some of our political and community
leaders were hell bent on destroying one another in the name of
politics, and how our community has lost the values our
forefathers fought for and bequeathed to us: respect, dignity,
pride and good name, concerns and care for one another and the
recognition by neighbouring communities that we are a proud,
honest and hard working people. We have gone down the slippery
road to almost anarchy, fear, self destruction and have engaged
in a new type of violence “political violence” all in the name
of political power that has so far eluded us anyway.
As a communinty we are suffering in pain, anxiety and the lack
of respect for us by other communities in our state because of
the one single issue that has continued to hunt and destroy us
and that is:“our inability to unit as one people”. This is a
very serious and worrying development. We believe that we have
reached a point when we can no longer remain silent while the
community is driven down the slippery route because if we do
history will not forgive us. It is with this in mind that EVI
came into being.
Ebira Vonya International (EVI) unlike others before it is a
dynamic umbrella organisation of all well-meaning indigenes of
Ebira people at home and in the ...
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