Igbo Union General Meeting

Goals

1. Promote Igbo Unity and Advance Igbo Interests All Over the World.
2. Create an enduring and organized Ndi Igbo structure in Northern California, capable of meeting current and future challenges in our world.
3. Organize and collaborate with Ndi Igbo in North America to meet the same set of challenges.

Notable Statements from the Previous Meeting

• Igbos need to speak with one voice or our many voices will become empty noise to our opponents.
• We need to bequeath a viable structure to generations after us or they will assimilate to a point of irrelevance to themselves and our homeland.
• We need to expose our youths to a strong Igbo identity and to one another or risk losing them.
• We must come together for the sake of our children and failure is not an option.
• Igbos are without leaders right now, marooned abroad and back home, and we have to find leadership or risk total irrelevance.
• Igbos are unique and we find ourselves in a very unique circumstance in history. Either we recognize our worth and rise up to the challenges or fold to extinction as a culturally identifiable political unit in this world.
• As a group, we stand a good chance of being relevant and we should not be afraid.
• We need to dig deep and ask ourselves why Igbo organizations failed here and back home.
• Surely, future generations will blame our ineptitude and lack of foresight, if we fail to make the right decisions now.

Meeting Agenda

1. Call to order / Opening prayers
2. Getting to know ourselves (Attendees introduce themselves)
3. Attendance sheet circulation
4. Open issues / agenda:
5. Opening statements on why IGBO UNION
6. Review the outcome of the general Igbo meeting (lessons learned and improvements needed)
7. Discuss the official invitation of Igbo Town Union officials to a meeting with the steering committee
8. Discuss progress on the survey questionnaire
9. Review and update general meeting handouts — Leadership Structure
10. Review and update general meeting handouts — Meeting Ground Rules
11. Review and update general meeting handouts — Proposed Mission, Vision and Goals
12. Discuss meeting entertainment and venue costs
13. Prepare agenda for the February 2018 general meeting
14. Other business of the day (matters arising)
15. Next meeting date and venue / Adjournment / Closing prayers