By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City.
The president of Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM), Ambassador Elder Coutis Ugbo has given out additional prices to young indigenouse students in Edo state
The move according to the Benin based freedom fighter, is to encourage reading, writing and speaking of Benin language across the kingdom
Ambassador Ugbo, gave the prices at a Benin language quize competition organized by Lawrence Osayande and Oba Ewuare Foundation for Secondary School students in Benin City.
The Benin Solidarity Movement President, who was the chairman of the occasion at Oba Ewaure 11 Foundation, gave fifty thousand naira to the winner and other various prices to first and second runners up including Benin language books, to boost the morale of young ones towards reading, writing and speaking indegenouse Benin language
“The aim of the various prices is geared towards encouraging the young ones on the importance of reading, speaking and writing of Benin language.If we are able to catch the young people at the primary and secondary levels, they will grow up as better adults in promoting the reach cultural and traditional heritage of the kingdom kingdom.
“We hereby called on parents to teach their wards on the use of Benin language in their daily conversations .”
Ambassador Ugbo who decsribed indegenouse language as means of identity, maintianed that the use of language promotes cultural and traditional inheritance.