Plateau Cultural Carnival commences with a beautiful display of activities, exhibitions, a fashion parade, dance and music, as well as other entertainment ahead of the New Year celebrations.
The event commenced from Secretariat Junction, where all the participants and fun seekers assembled in the morning. It included a series of entertainment activities and music before going on a road show and procession to Crest Hotel.
According to the carnival convener, Debrah Jalmet, this year’s event marks the second anniversary of the carnival, which aims to project the state in a more positive light and open it up to positive development and investors by advancing the culture and people of the state.
Jalmet noted that the etho-religious crisis and its attendant violence, which rocked the state in the past 20 years, has significantly subsided in the past few years, and that now there has been relative peace across many communities as well as in the state capital.
According to her, Plateau State is already open to peace, tranquility, and unity because the people are tired of crisis. So, they are using the carnival to strategically boost the state’s well-being and progress, advance investment drive, and economic empowerment.
She called on those outside Plateau and across the world to come to the state and take advantage of its potential, hospitality and people and initiate their business ideas, buying and selling, rendering services and getting good returns on investment.
In his remark, Stephen Okoh, popularly known as Director Bishop, said the whole essence of the carnival was to revive the Plateau cultural heritage because so many cultures across the nation, Africa, and the world at large have gone extinct.
Okoh, who is also a filmmaker, director and writer, explained that the carnival will serve as a reminder of the people’s culture and cultural life in the state’s heterogeneous society and from across the 17 local government areas.
