ZIMBABWEAN COUPLE DEPORTED OVER SECRET BURIAL OF CHILD IN BOTSWANA.(PHOTO)

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 ZIMBABWEAN COUPLE DEPORTED OVER SECRET BURIAL OF CHILD IN BOTSWANA A Zimbabwean couple has been deported from Botswana after secretly burying their child without notifying authorities. Motilinah Mpofu and Christopher Ncube were convicted on Thursday of concealing a death after they allegedly dug a grave for their child in the dead of night. The Gaborone court heard the child had died suddenly. Instead of reporting the death to police, health officials, or traditional leaders, the couple quietly buried the youngster and hoped no one would find out. But the secret did not stay buried for long.   Police moved in and arrested the pair. In sentencing, the court ordered that the couple be taken to the Plumtree Border Post for deportation to Zimbabwe.  Top Botswana lawyer Winnie Masitha who offered the couple free legal representation during the trial, confirmed the deportation to BTV News. Masitha believed that the matter should not be viewed only through the lens of crim...

GOV. WILLIE OBIANO,PLANS TO FLOAT A RADIO STATION THAT WOULD BROADCAST ITS PROGRAMMES IN IGBO LANGUAGE.{READ}.

Related image                     According to sources,Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra,only recently said he would float a radio station that broadcast its programmes in Igbo language.He made this known during a public event organised by an Igbo cultural society known as ''Otu suwakwa Igbo'' headed by former Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University,Prof. Pita Ejioforon.The governor said ''this is my contribution toward preventing the Igbo language from going into extinction''.Obiano expressed dismay at the failure of parents to teach their children the Igbo language and culture.He added that henceforth,pupils in the state would wear Igbo traditional attire to school every wednesday.According to him,folklore will be taught to primary school children every Wednesday evening.The governor said that the Igbo folklore he learnt while growing up had helped in shaping his behaviour and guided his relationship with other people till date.''Igbo folklore is powerful in building morals and values.I can't forget my late primary school teacher and the way he used Igbo folklore to teach us great lessons.Even as a governor,those stories about the tortoise and other animals still guide my life''.He assured the Igbo cultural society that the state government would strengthen the law that would make it mandatory for all to communicate in Igbo language and wear traditional attire on wednesdays.Former National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance {APGA}, Chief Victor Umeh,described language and religion as the true identities of a people.He said ''We should not allow Igbo language to die as predicted.For me,I have Igbo odour and I smell Igbo; my red cap is my joy as an Igbo man''.In her remarks,Mrs Stella Onuorah,the Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs,Culture and Tourism,appealed to the Igbo in the Diaspora to strive to teach their children the language and inculcate in them the cultural values.
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