Maiden Amok Ibaas Foron cultural festival in Plateau holds December 10

Elder Dauda Reng Pam is the event’s Director of Media and Publicity

By Anthony Maliki

The maiden edition of Amok Ibaas Foron cultural festival tagged “Amok Ibaas Foron 2021” has been slated for Friday and Saturday, December 10-11, 2021.

The event holds under the distinguished chairmanship of Hon.Yusuf Gagdi, Member representing Pankshin, Kanam, Kanke Federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Abuja and Ngo Naomi Jugu as Chairlady.

This was contained in a statement by Director, Media and Publicity Committee of the event, Dauda Reng Pam, JP to Apex News Exclusive.

The Executive Governor of Plateau state, Rt Hon. Simon Bako Lalong, is expected to be the special guest of Honour.
The ancentral festival is the apex cultural ritual of the Ibaas Foron people which is usually hosted by the paramount ruler, Gwom Ibaas, to offer prayers heralding the coming of the rainy season to usher in farming and planting activities across Ibaas land and sometimes shortly after the rains to seek for God’s blessings for a bumper harvest but in the case of the Amok Ibaas 2021 it calls for double celebrations. Not only has God Almighty, “aDakunom” been so gracious and merciful to the people of Ibaas but has used our amiable Governor, Rt.Hon. Lalong, who has elevated the stool of the traditional ruler of the Ibaas Foron people to the status of a 3rd class Chief. This, to the Ibaas man is worthy of pomp and pageantry hence the essence of this grandiose epoch-making fiesta, deliberately coinciding with the month of coronation of Da Dr Luka Pagyang Pam JP, at about this time last year. This will remain indelible in the annals of history not only in Ibaas land but across the entire state and Nigeria at large.
The Ibaas people owe a lot of gratitude to the Plateau State Governor for this foresight and by applying the right instrumentalities  of office by  granting the people the long desired and overdue autonomy placing them among the committee of ethnic nationalities on the Plateau. This will no doubt, spur the ingenuity and self actualisation of the Ibaas people towards attaining self sufficiency and self reliance which they have been yearning from time immemorial.
Highlights of the occasion included an intercessory prayer session, lectures exihibition of traditional foods, arts and artefacts, hunting expedition, Miss Zene Ibaas beauty pageant as well as traditional dances and drama presentation.

Dignitaries, men and women of good will, members of the public and all sons and daughters of Ibaas land have been invited to grace the occasion at Zaron, Ibaas Foron Chiefdom.