At 30, Ebonyi stands tall

By Chooks Oko
Whenever I look back and reflect on the Ebonyi State story, I raise my eyes to heaven, raise my glasses to cheer, I raise my shoulders in pride. It is a story that breaks the heart, mends, and gladdens it all at once. It is a song of desolation, consolation, rejuvenation and exaltation in one fell swoop. Ebonyi is a tale only understood by the tellers.
For the records, Ebonyi is an amalgamation of two brothers whose common denominators were neglect, crude marginalization and the attendant denigration. In old Imo state, the Afikpo bloc was a dumping site for punitive transfers of civil servants. No access roads, no infrastructure, and the acclaimed ‘Siberia’ of the stat...