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Mr Sylvester Ogunkelu, member, Lagos State House of Assembly(Epe II), on Monday, july 31, 2023 called on youths to embrace indigenous cultures and respect traditions, to engender national development.

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<h2>Mr Sylvester Ogunkelu, member, Lagos&nbsp;State&nbsp;House of Assembly(Epe II), on Monday, July 31, 2023 called on youths to&nbsp;embrace&nbsp;indigenous cultures and respect traditions, to engender national development.</h2>

Ogunkelu made the call at the ongoing Kayokayo Festival in Epe. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the festival is celebrated&nbsp;annually to commemorate&nbsp;the historical arrival of King Kosoko&nbsp;Morounfolu Okunoye and&nbsp;his entourage to Epe in 1851, and to usher in the new Islamic calendar year.

The lawmaker&nbsp;said&nbsp;embracing and promoting indigenous cultures would&nbsp;help entrench&nbsp;cultural values&nbsp;and foster&nbsp;integration. While saying the festival is very important to the people of Epe ,Ogunkelu&nbsp;urged youths, especially those in the area,&nbsp;not to see indigenous cultures as inferior to western culture.

The lawmaker&nbsp;expressed concern that&nbsp;western culture was eroding indigenous cultures ,saying many Nigerians now prefer&nbsp;to dress , speak and behave like foreigners , abandoning&nbsp;local ways of life.

“Western culture has&nbsp;affected&nbsp;&nbsp;our own culture negatively, to the extent that we now do mainly&nbsp;what foreigners hand over to us&nbsp;; we&nbsp;no longer see our own cultures and traditions as anything.

“A lot of youths now prefer to dress the western way , which is not a good idea.

“Our youths are no longer ready to speak our local&nbsp;languages ,be it Yoruba , Igbo or Hausa, and speaking local languages is one of the ways we can promote and preserve our cultures.

“When our youths&nbsp;are&nbsp;not even interested in anything that has to do with local&nbsp;languages, how will they think of&nbsp;preserving&nbsp;the&nbsp;indigenous culture?”, he said.

He said&nbsp;&nbsp;Kayokayo&nbsp;festival&nbsp;was&nbsp;a unifying factor for the people of Epe, and that it had promoted&nbsp;the peace and prosperity of the area .

The lawmaker&nbsp;added&nbsp;that the festival had&nbsp;become a veritable platform for the promotion of the local economy, and for finding solutions to&nbsp;some of the socio-economic challenges of the community.

”Most significantly, the festival propagates our rich&nbsp;culture, it is&nbsp;a platform for the promotion&nbsp;of&nbsp;peaceful co-existence of the people of&nbsp;the area” he said.

Lawmaker urges youths to embrace indigenous cultures, respect traditions

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