National carrier, Globacom, has
pledged to collaborate with the organisers the annual Lisabi Festival and make
it bigger and better than the previous editions. The week-long
festival kicks off on Monday, February 24, 2014 at Abeokuta.
In a statement released by Globacom,
the company said: “We have commenced pre-festival roadshows and town-storms to
sensitize people to attend the Lisabi Festival in consonance with our tradition
of ensuring successful organization of the festival. Part of our preparations
for the festival includes enhancing the aesthetics of the city of Abeokuta and
environs and supporting the round robin stages of the Lisabi football competition.”
To ensure quality attendance, the
statement further enjoined Egba indigenes at home and in the diaspora to begin
preparations in earnest and devise ways to contribute meaningfully to the
success of 2014 Lisabi Festival which marks a watershed in their history as
they celebrate the centenary celebration of Egba National Independence.
The Alake and Paramount Ruler of
Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, CFR, described last year’s Lisabi
Festival as unique because of the new found unity and rapprochement amongst
Egba Traditional Rulers.
About seventy Egba coronet Kings
attended the festival which theme was aptly tagged Retaining the Girl
Child in School. The paramount ruler used the occasion of the
last festival to encourage parents to give university education to girls, adding
that secondary education was now inadequate for a child to lead qualitative
life.
During his speech at the festival
last year, the Alake thanked Globacom for adding value to Lisabi Festival since
it took over the sponsorship with the introduction of many creative
programmes that resonate with the people and called on Egba indigenes to
continue to encourage the company by patronising its services.
The Lisabi Festival is an annual
celebration of freedom from oppression and dominance championed by the Egba
progenitor, Lisabi Agbongboakala and a rallying point for indigenes to harness
ideas on how to further the development of the entire Egbaland.
Events like Football, Ayo, Quiz and
Debate competitions among the five local governments that constitute Egbaland
will complement the usual traditional programmes of the festival.
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