Moment Wike’s Kinsmen Turns Trashed Electronic Sets To Colourful Bicycle Carnival

Governor Nyesom Wike’s kinsmen from Isiokpo Ikwerre in Rivers state on new year eve turned some analogue electronic appliances into beautiful bicycle carnival floats to mark the end of year 2020. 

BIGPEN reports that the development which has got micro-blogging website, Twitter buzzing, is apparently a concept that depict the strong ties between the Ikwerre people who are aborigine Igbos and other ethnic groups in the area.

Some also believed the event which made the streets of Isiokpo Ikwerre alive with colour and creativity, was a replay of the civil war era where some Igbos have to fled their home with their households tied on bicycles.

Ikwerre cultural area is bordered by Oyigbo to the southeast, an predominant Igbo speaking Local Government Area where it was alleged recently to be a ‘killing fields’ of some Igbo youths by soldiers during the EndSARS protest in the state.

Governor Wike hails from Ikwerre from Rumuepirikom in Obio-Akpor, Rivers State.

 

“Ikwerre is widely regarded as one of the Igbo groups in Rivers State. They are considered as a part of the larger Igbo ethnic group. They speak Ikwerre, an Igbo dialect, which is sometimes considered a separate language in the Igboid family, as a result of the quest for Ikwerre’s recognition as a separate ethnic nationality”, according to Wikipedia account.

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According to the account, the Ikwerre cultural area is bordered by the Ohaji/Egbema of Imo State to the northeast, the Ogba to the northwest, the Ekpeye and Abua to the west, the Ijoid groups of Degema, the Kalabari and Okrika to the south, the Eleme and Oyigbo to the southeast and the Etche to the east.

A Twitter user, Theresa Tekenah who posted alluring photographs from the carnival, described the event as awesome. “Isiokpo Ikwerre people of Rivers state held a bicycle carnival to mark the end of year 2020. Mad ooo”

Although the organisers of the event were yet to make any public statement on the carnival, some of the commenters to the Twitter user’s post on the event, likened it to the civil war era when Igbo people fled their homes in drove after Nigerian troops captured many of their towns.

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“This pictures depicts how the Igbo people whose town were taken over by the Nigerian army during the civil war left their towns for safety”.

Another commenters said that it was an event that portray that a return to era of improved green environment and reduction of the burning fossil fuel which is killing human environment.

“This should be aligned to improving the quality of air we breathe through reduction of the burning of fossil fuel”. #SDG

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