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ORIGIN, STRUCTURE AND ACTIVITIES OF OGBONA ELITES FORUM A presentation to Ogbona Apakhaide Union, April 2017 – By Gilbert Odior, President Ogbona Elites Forum 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 1
Mr. Chairman Sir, Members of “The Apakhaide Union”, Other protocols well observed. It is with deep sense of honour and privilege that I stand here today to intimate this house of the origin, goals and objectives, achievements and challenges of Ogbona Elites Forum. 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 2
• The idea of having a social network forum where every INDIGENE of Ogbona can network for the unity and the development of Ogbona was the brain child of Stephen Adomhere and he added Mr. Gilbert E. Odior. • Gilbert became the 1 st Facebook account Admin for “I'M AN INDIGENE OF OGBONA” in March of 2016. Its primary objective is to unite all INDIGENES of Ogbona both at home and in diaspora for the development of Ogbona • It was the first cautious attempt to provide a forum where all indigenes of our community can interact with one another, have insight into our culture and tradition, discuss burning issues and proffer possible solutions 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 3
• • • Over 1000 accounts have been added to the said Facebook, I'm an Indigene Of Ogbona John Odior Anaweokhai set up “The Ogbona Elites Forum” on Whats. App in October, 2016 to complement I'M AN INDIGENE OF OGBONA The Ogbona Elites Forum could not meet the yearnings and aspirations of every member owing to differences in religion and politics Two additional fora, “Ogbona Political Elites” and “Ogbona Christian Forum” were created to meet the political and religion interests of members respectively. Though, the Christian Forum has been handed over to The Ogbona Christian Association. 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 4
• Today without mincing words, I'M AN INDIGENE OF OGBONA Facebook account has over 1, 000 membership while the Whats. App account has over 130 members • It is imperative to state here that at the moment we at the verge of coalescing all the fora under the umbrella body of Ogbona Elites Forum to be registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 5
OBJECTIVES OF THIS FORUM 1. To unite all the elites of Ogbona extraction in any part of the world regardless of one's ideological stand on issues that bother on politics, religion, profession, taste etc. 2. To cross fertilize ideas on how to move Ogbona forward. 3. To support and defend one another. 4. To: showcase Ogbona cultural heritage. 5. To serve as resource centre on Ogbona culture and traditions. 6. To relive history and celebrate those that have helped to shape the history of Ogbona community. 7. To restrain from partisan politics but without prejudice to supporting any Ogbona person who is contesting any elective position against an outsider. 8. To remain neutral on any issue that involves two or more Ogbona persons. 9. To accord respect, honour and reward to those that so deserve. 10. To guide against gutter language that will attract sanctions as determined by elders of the forum. 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 6
ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE 1. Gilbert E. Odior President 2. Bernard K. Ikhane Vice President 3. John Odior Anaweokhai Secretary General 4. Peter Aigba Financial Secretary 5. Philip Ogedegbe Treasurer 6. Philip Orbih Legal Adviser 7. Taye Odior Anavhe Public Relation Officer APPROVED BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1. Gilbert E. Odior 5. Mrs. Stella Mode 2. Bernard K. Ikhane 6. Bar. Ferdinard Orbih 3. John Odior Anaweokhai 7. Julie O Inu Umoru. 4. Bar. Felix Jones Osimerha 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 7
ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR In the course of our discussion last year we discovered that our secondary school had only three teachers which had necessitated the mass exodus of our students to the neighboring Iraokhor secondary school. It was also discovered that though there are six functional boreholes in our community there was the problem of diesel to power the pumping machines. We analyzed the problems and decided to proffer both long and short term solutions. We sent out to generate fund from our people to meet the above needs. So far, through donations and dues we have been able to generate over N 2. 2 M (two million, two hundred thousand naira) 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 8
ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR (cont’d) Employed thirteen teachers for various subjects in the secondary school whose monthly wage bill is about N 150, 000. Closing remaining gaps. We also purchase N 100, 000 worth of diesel every month to power water pumping machines One of our long term solutions for the problem of pumping water at the six functional boreholes is the installation of solar power panels at the boreholes to reduce the cost of diesel. In the course of our forum discussions, Chief Dan Orbih promised to foot the bills of two of the solar panel systems for the sum of N 10. 5 M, and the work has been completed and the solar power is working We also discovered that the primary school pupils have problem with reading and in February this year, we organized a Three day workshop on the use of phonics, the latest technology in reading for the three primary schools teachers in Ogbona to get the pupils well-grounded in reading. (This program was sponsored by Adolphus Asekomhe) On the 1 st of February, this year through our empowerment program, we presented a generator set and a clipper to Steamer the barber to aid his barbing business. Through our empowerment program also, Chief Ferdinard Orbih has instituted a scholarship program for an indigent Ogbona student at the Nigeria Law School. 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 9
CHALLENGES Our forum is relatively new and most people have no idea of what we are about and objectives We are not here to compete with any organization but to complement. We need money to execute projects especially, the solar power system. The forum is open to every member irrespective of age, sex and political affiliation. We need active members to join us and contribute to the development of Ogbona. Encourage your children and siblings to join our forum. One of our other objective is to clinch the Chairmanship position of our local government Area in the next political dispensation and we need the support of everybody to achieve this goal. 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 10
CHALLENGES Inability to get copies of the papers written on Ogbona. Avhianwu Tradition, Culture, Laws and Development Have our leaders document their profile for posterity Internet network at home is poor to non existence and difficult to exchange information We need more active members from Ogbona Community in the forum and also help to QA/QC our projects at home Knowledgeable persons to QA/QC our write-ups Unable to have a clear scan of the past minutes and documents of Apakhaide Union (old and difficult to scan) 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 11
Acknowledgement of the following persons at Ogbona for their immense support and contributions • HRH. Chief Willie Idode, Okphe Ukpi • Thaddeus Anabor (Gagasco) • Magnus Akpaibor • Chief Matthias Akpaibor 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 12
Thank You for Listening 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 13
Backups 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 14
Biographies 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 15
Profiles 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 16
History & Culture 3/18/2018 Ogbona Elites Forum 17
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