The Centre for Speech Improvement and Studying Initiative has referred to as on the Nationwide Meeting for a constitutional assessment to rename ‘Kogi’ as ‘Confluence State.’
The group’s Govt Director, Alexius Maiyanga, made this name whereas briefing newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.
He mentioned the decision grew to become vital as a result of the current geographical and political space referred to as ‘Kogi’ is the host of Rivers Niger and Benue, Africa’s most necessary rivers.
Based on him, if international locations may have their names modified as within the case of Higher Volta to Burkina Faso, Gold Coast to Ghana, the renaming of Kogi State shouldn’t be a troublesome factor to do by the Nationwide Meeting.
He emphasised the significance of names, saying they’ve deep private, cultural and historic connections.
‘’Our names are an extremely necessary a part of our identification. They carry very deep private, cultural, emotional, acquainted and historic connections. Names give us a way of who we’re, the communities during which we belong and our place on the earth,’’ he mentioned.
Maiyanga mentioned that Nigeria acknowledges the English language because the official language of communication, stressing that Normal Ibrahim Babangida (Rtd), who created the state and the Supreme Army Council, communicated wrongly so far as the nomenclature of Kogi State was involved.
He mentioned, ‘’Why did Babangida and his army associates bury certainly one of Nigeria’s gigantic blessings of the 2 enormous rivers; Niger and Benue with a tremendous breath-taking confluence at Lokoja, the state capital?
‘’In Kogi, all of the ethnic teams have a reputation for a river, why was none chosen from amongst them?’’
