Royal Ladies Club And The Quest For Moral Rebirth -By Stan Uzoma

We live in a troubled world no doubt. The human species seems destructively active in not just destroying the physical environment but in destroying its own social environment as well. Instability and abnormality have become the order of the day. The family which used to be the building cell of the society is threatened by day. Homes are broken and social deviants are churned out in millions all over the world while leaders waste time drafting laws ostensibly to define rights and create freedom and religious clerics harp fruitlessly on prosperity while the moral fabrics of the society is destroyed. Research has shown that there is close correlation between stability in the families and crime in the society. Traditional family values have given way to alien and outlandish values that tend to pooh-pooh socio-cultural ethics. This is the stark reality that we have to grapple with in the contemporary world. Economic progress, innovations in technology and global interconnectivity while it can increase information dissemination and improve mundane living standard cannot increase ethical life. Thus, the world need value re-orientation and moral rebirth to create peace at home and social harmony in the society in which we live.
In the time past, in the absence of formal school system, our fore parents have their unique method of instructing and inculcating moral and ethical values. But today with so many schools and learning channels moral values have continue to ebb. On daily basis the mass media is awash with news of morally reprehensible acts perpetuated by reprobates; the result of poor parenting and parental irresponsibility. Worse still, rather than look inwards and do some soul searching, most parents publicly defend the reprehensible acts of their children. Today while we are confronted with moral decadence, our men are primarily concerned with the pursuit of wealth and when our women gather together what they discuss are mundane things and their rights without any thought about their responsibilities. When you attend conferences or other gatherings were marriages are discussed, the central theme seems to center on the rights of the woman and the rights of the child. Nobody seems to bother about the survival of the family institution. And parenting is thought only in terms of provision of material needs of the child.

Clearly, the state of instability in the families and marriages today is negatively shaking the foundation of the human society and should elicit concern from not just humanists but everyone interested in the survival of the human race. But regrettably, save for few religious groups like the Catholic Church which is traditionally pro-life, most people do not care about it. Thus, it is in line with the above that I wish to identify with a group of young women who have come together to work for the enthronement of those virtues that made our homes stable in the days of yore. Royal Ladies of Honour International Club is an organization established for the purpose of making women what they should be—virtuous women, loving mothers, submissive wives, home makers, tender and kind-hearted beings. According to the leader of the group Royal Lady Lolo Enyinwa they discovered that Igbo land has more stable marriages because of cultural orientation, less social miscreants and area boys because parents are alive to their responsibilities but recently due to pervasive influence of other cultures some of these cultural traits are being eroded so much so that people are no longer ashamed of divorce, single motherhood, pregnancy without marriage and other things that are hitherto regarded as taboo in Igbo land. It is their desire to train our women to know their unique position as home-makers. While some women organizations harbor misguided notion about the rights of women they chose to dwell on instilling right values that will protect their marriage and the family. They recognize the family as the building block of the society.

Royal Ladies of Honor International Club also known as Igbo Women Believers Club was formed in October, 2021 when a group young Igbo women troubled by the incessant report of immoral conduct that has permeated the Nigerian school system came together to discuss and x-ray the current state of the family institution in the country. At their inaugural meeting held in Abuja they resolved among other things to form a club, create avenues and channels to reach out to women, engage and properly guide the girl-child to imbibe the right ethical conduct. And ever since, the club has been growing in leaps and bounds, with branches in Abuja, Lagos and Awka. They also have a Diaspora branch in USA. Each chapter is virtually connected and they have online meetings regularly where they brainstorm on issues. They hold physical meetings every other month to hobnob with one another. Their programs are basically religious and socio-cultural in nature and they include: monthly fasting and prayers, capacity-building and skill acquisition, counseling, health talk, Bible study, love feast and spiritual and financial empowerment among others. Their core values are anchored on the Christian virtues of chastity, humility and service. They believe in proper parenting; that a child should be taught the right values in line with the Scriptural injunction: “train up a child the way he should go even when he is old, he would not depart from it,” (Prov. 22:6).

Royal Ladies of Honour International club is aimed at empowering believers to grow both in spiritual stature and in every other dimension. They believe that they are a peculiar people, a chosen race, a royal priesthood, holy nation and God’s own people, (1Pet. 2:9) and that was the foundation on which the club is built. Their motto is: A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches (Prov. 22:1). The mandate of the club is to build up a women fellowship basically Igbo women in love and trust of our Lord Jesus Christ. Their vision is to set up a global Community where Igbo women can easily have access to God, through a Christian /Godly way of Life.

Specifically, it is their desire to raise an army of fire brand intercessors, anointed minstrels, light bearers and prayer giants among Igbo Christian women, illuminate, edify and fire up Igbo Christian women to becoming global voices, trail blazers, pathfinders and frontiers in various walks of life, properly train and disciple Igbo Christian women in purpose discovery, fruitful manifestations and exploits in their various ministries and callings and to prepare and guide Igbo Christian women on the kingdom requirements for a successful marriage and family life. 

No doubt the society in which we live now need organizations like this to inspire a re-orientation program that will return the society on the path of moral rectitude that will engender peace and harmonious existence.

Stan Uzoma
A consultant and leadership strategist
Abuja