# Obiano Effect: When A Good Man Is In Power – Anambra State We Continue To Remember Our Fallen Heroes & Heroines As As We Commemorate Ozoemezina Today…

Recall that Anambra State Government led by Gov Willie Obiano on this day in 2015 performed a formal rite of passage for the fallen heroes & heroines tagged #Ozoemezina.

Read what Gov Willie Obiano said…

“Ozoemezina, Memory and the Quest for Igbo Renaissance”

“My brothers and sisters, today is a great day in our collective memory. Today, we begin the symbolic effort of casting a long look backwards, beyond the immediate horizon of our national experience, to honour the memories of our loved ones who lost their lives to the various dark chapters of our national history.

In doing this, we are guided by our belief that life itself is an unbroken stream of experiences stitched together by memory.

Without memory, life assumes the attributes of a futile gaze into the void of time! Now before I go any further, let us observe a moment of silence in honour of our brothers and sisters in whose shadows we stand here today.

The Place of memory in Igbo Worldview

Umunnem, as is the case with the worldview of other great nations, Memory occupies a pre-eminent place in the Igbo worldview. Our ancestors believed that a people without memory have absolutely no future.

To underscore the significance of memory, they handed us the concept of Ncheta ka – “recall is supreme.”They silently nudged us to realize that life presents us with a diversity of experiences and out of this menu are touchstones that should guide us into the future.

These wise ancestors also gave us the philosophy of Onye ayana nwanneya – be your brother’s keeper; which has become the philosophy of our great party – APGA.

With this, we are constantly reminded that life’s most enduring experiences are usually shared as a group and that these experiences, though traumatic sometimes; should strengthen our bonds of brotherhood.
My brothers and sisters, we are not alone on this.

History presents us with a long list of ethnicities and nations that have risen through horrific experiences to strengthen their ties of brotherhood and re-affirm their humanity through symbolic events like the one we have gathered here today to perform.

Contemporary World Experiences

Ndi Anambra, anyone who is familiar with contemporary world history can liken our efforts here today to Jewish efforts to honour the memory of the Holocaust as well as the recent efforts to commemorate the Rwandan Genocide in Kigali.

In the Jewish example, we see the firm resolve of the world Jewry to ensure that the tragic history of the Holocaust is permanently etched on human memory; that the world never forgets! Many major cities in Europe and America have a Holocaust Memorial; built to perpetuate the memory of about six million Jews that died in the waves of anti-Semitism that swept through the world at the time.

Instructively the people of Rwanda have quickly recovered from the genocide that marked the Hutu and Tutsi conflict of the early 90s to build an ambitious economy.

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