Director-General Ekiti State Council for Arts and Culture Ambassador Wale Ojo Lanre has urged Ekiti people to join hands with Governor Kayode Fayemi led administration in restoring the core value of honesty, diligence and integrity of the state through cultural intervention.
Ojo Lanre said that ‘the degree of social and moral decay in our society as being witnessed today threatens our security and peaceful existence as a people and the value we place on material things has continued to make our society unsafe is so alarming’.
According to a statement issued to commemorate this year’s World Culture Day, he noted that ‘our culture has become part of us that we relegate it to third class of our priority,’ adding that cultural development and promotion were not accorded enough attention, which is the bane of our current situation as a nation.
World Culture Day is celebrated annually to deepen peoples’ understanding of the values of cultural diversity as well as to advance the four goals of UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
He observed that it is frustrating to realise that the erosion of our culture has swept into our door steps unimaginable moral decay and our core values are becoming a thing of history.
“Ekiti people are known as people who are distinguished by their higher level of bravery, loyalty, integrity and hard work. If we reactivate our core value system and celebrate the attributes listed above far above materialism, a lot would be achieved in making our society safer and more habitable,” he noted.
While advocating for attitudinal change and positive advancement and reactivation of value system, the Chief cultural officer of the state said ‘the second coming of Fayemi administration marks a revival of the cultural sector in the state and need to be supported by all and sundry.’
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