In its resolve to make sure full preparation for the 2024 Carnival Calabar with the theme, “Our Shared Prosperity”, Diamond Carnival Band, Saturday flagged off an exercise to arrange its members for the massive occasion.
Often called “Match Frenzy”, the 4 kilometres street stroll which commenced on the iconic Millennium Park, by Eleven-Eleven Roundabout Calabar, culminated in an aerobics session which noticed energetic and enthusiastic members, each grownup and youngsters who defiled the early morning rain, Saturday to take part on the Band’s Mass Camp, located at 43 Diamond Hill, Calabar.
Talking through the flag-off of the health walkout, the Chairman, of the Calabar Worldwide Pageant Committee and Particular Adviser to Governor Bassey Otu on Occasion Administration and Governor’s Workplace, Mr Effiong Ekpenyong lauded the administration of Diamond Band for placing up such a present which he famous would announce the graduation of Carnival actions to residents within the metropolis.
Whereas assuring Carnival lovers that this 12 months’s occasion can be larger and higher when it comes to contents and supply following the laudable improvements injected into the well-known occasion by the federal government, Ekpenyong who was accompanied by Commissioner, Advertising & Branding, Cross River State Carnival Fee, Mr Effiom Bassey, assured the Seven competing Carnival Band of a stage playground.
The Pageant Chair who was excited with the health placing described it as a wholesome life-style everybody should imbibe to remain hale and hearty for Carnival, averring that he was not stunned on the innovation within the Band given the calibre of individuals managing the Band and the truth that Diamond Band stays one of many promising Band within the competitors regardless of of the truth that it’s a brand new entry however confirmed unimaginable efficiency throughout 2023 occasion.
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“I’m impressed with this initiative in Diamond Band and I need to say that it’s a successful mentality that might give the Band the morale to go on to win this 12 months’s Carnival. I cost you to maintain up the great work as we put together to flag off the primary Carnival actions in October”, he added.
Earlier, the Chief of the Diamond Carnival Band and Senior Legislative Aide to the Senate President, Hon. Eric Anderson, knowledgeable the State’s Occasion Supervisor that the train was a part of their initiatives to arrange the emotional, psychological and psychological minds of their revellers each grownup and youngsters for the December occasion.
In response to Anderson, “That is the primary version of our “Match Frenzy”, we’re internet hosting one other one in September to arrange ourselves for the primary dry run in October.
“We wish to use these actions to energise each division and revellers within the band to come back alive to their respective obligations and most significantly be able to ship on this 12 months’s theme, Our Shared Prosperity”, as a result of actually the State belongs to all of us and we should take accountability for all that issues it,” he added.
Revellers additionally bore their minds on the event, describing it as the primary of its form within the historical past of Carnival Bands, and praised their chief for the foresight, which they agreed would increase their morale for a greater efficiency this 12 months.
Mr Ubong Isaiah, one of many revellers, mentioned, “I didn’t take it significantly, however as I began seeing uploads on our platform, I needed to hurry down right here,e, and I can let you know that it’s been enjoyable and reunion galore.
After near a 12 months, I met my associates and dance companion once more, and I’m having enjoyable. I really feel just like the carnival has begun, and I do know we are going to win this 12 months,” Miss Berkie Effiong, one of many Frontline women, defined.
Regardless of the rain’s growing momentum, the adults and youngsters revelers current weren’t deterred however walked the 4 kilometres route for his or her first Match Frenzy, which began on the Millennium Park, Eleven-Eleven Roundabout, into the Leopard Street and terminate on the Band’s Mass Camp on Diamond Hill, Calabar for Cardio session.
