On Monday, December 16th, 2024, starting at 4:00 pm, at Eko Hotels, Victoria Island Lagos, the Igbo Business community and the United Igbo Elders will confer on Chief/Dr. Chidi Obed Anyaegbu Meyọ Ndị Igbo and Life Patron.
Conferment of Meyọ Ndị Igbo is borne out of an urgent necessity which time was way over due. Many times Ndị Igbo, known for their business enterprises have been challenged, provoked, harassed and economically assaulted by various host communities in and outside Nigeria. In some instances, lives and properties have been lost.
Among Ndị Igbo, the number of business and transactional disputes are astronomical that 80% of police and court dockets involve Igbo on Igbo. Concerned Ndị Igbo from all works of lives here and in Diaspora, over the past two years have been strategizing on how to curtail and arrest these situations that derailed love, unity and progress of Ndị Igbo.
Neither the Church, the political leaders nor the various socio cultural organization have ever intervened nor challenged the anomalies. Continuing to do the same thing over and over, expecting a different result has not worked for Ndị Igbo.
It is in this back drop that the concerned Igbo business community from all Igbo States has decided to select one of them to be the bridge for Ndị Igbo in times of crisis or perceived attack on their business interests by host communities or other tribes.
The title Meyọ Ndị Igbo has no political or socio-cultural undertone or threat to existing order. The office is purely apolitical and does not endorse candidates or parties for political offices.
It solely caters to business interests of Ndị Igbo, to interphase with various organs of the society and Igbo family, and to intervene and mediate disputes as they spring up or are anticipated. The Meyọ will be an intervenor and mediator in- chief for Igbo business interests.
Chief/Dr. Chidi Anyaegbu, CON, MFR has been a fighter for Ndị Igbo and philanthropist extraordinary.
