Abia Seeks Collaboration With National War Museum To Promote Tourism

Queen Onyekachi Atulomah, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State on Tourism and Entertainment has restated the readiness of her office to boost the tourism potentials of the state through collaboration with the National War Museum.

Atulomah made this known when she paid a courtesy visit to the Curator, National War Museum, Umuahia, Mrs Mercy Aduaku.

She expressed the willingness of her office to collaborate with the National museum to boost the Internally Generated Revenue of the state.

She observed that many people in the state only hear of National War museum and Ojukwu bunker but have never visited the place.

The SSA encouraged the public to visit the museum and harness the educational benefits of it.

She assured that with help of government through her office, the tourism potential of Abia State would improve.

Speaking at the event, the Curator of the National War Museum, Mrs Mercy Aduaku, said collaboration with the state government will give the museum a pride of place, adding that the museum through the hospitality it provides can add value to the state’s IGR.

“The equipment in the museum were used in times of traditional and Biafran wars, some foreign, others locally made.

“There is the Red Devil armoured tank and many others locally manufactured which tells you the level of technology we have here.

“We have the locally manufactured Ogbunigwe, which literally means ‘killer in large numbers’. We really want our people to know that ingenuity is not only in America, it is also in Nigeria and we have to develop some of these equipment for good use,” she said.

Aduaku also pointed out that funding was the greatest challenge of the museum. She said: “The aim of the museum is to show the world what really transpired on the aspect of Nigeria and the side of Biafra at that time and then the peace that came. The summary of it is that we don’t want any more wars. The vanguard is that we want peace not war. “