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We Have Lost Our Innocent, By Chido Onumah
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A thank you Note to our Mentor, Leader and One of God s Finest Creatures: Innocent Chukwuma
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The passing of my mentor Innocent Chukwuma was devastating and excruciating. It is as painful as the death of my immediate elder brother Bonaventure Ikenna Odinkalu in Feb 2006, the death of my Dad Nnaomadiebube Sir Augustine Sochukwuma Odinkalu in Dec 2015, my elder sister Genevieve Njideka Dike-Okwuaka in Nov, 2016 and Mum Dame Nneomanwereugwu Anthonia Ihunnaya Odinkalu in Feb 2019 respectively. Onwu emenam ihe “death has dealt with me”
This year started on a very sad note for me and the development sector in Nigeria with the death of Barr Esther Uzoma, Former Convener, Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room/Founder, Proactive Gender Initiative, so far we have lost five distinguished leaders, social justice activists and nation-builders: Anyakwee Nsirimovu, Wisdom Durueke, Esther Uzoma, Yinka Odumakin and Innocent Chukwuma. One wonders why good
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The passing of my mentor Innocent Chukwuma was devastating and excruciating. It is as painful as the death of my immediate elder brother Bonaventure Ikenna Odinkalu in Feb 2006, the death of my Dad Nnaomadiebube Sir Augustine Sochukwuma Odinkalu in Dec 2015, my elder sister Genevieve Njideka Dike-Okwuaka in Nov, 2016 and Mum Dame Nneomanwereugwu Anthonia Ihunnaya Odinkalu in Feb 2019 respectively. Onwu emenam ihe “death has dealt with me”.
This year started on a very sad note for me and the development sector in Nigeria with the death of Barr Esther Uzoma, Former Convener, Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room/Founder, Proactive Gender Initiative, so far we have lost five distinguished leaders, social justice activists and nation-builders: Anyakwee Nsirimovu, Wisdom Durueke, Esther Uzoma, Yinka Odumakin and Innocent Chukwuma. One wonders why good people die early in life.
We Have Lost Our Innocent, By Chido Onumah
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We Have Lost Our Innocent, By Chido Onumah
He was a man of ideas, big ideas. He was also practical in every sense of the word. There was hardly any problem Innocent did not have a solution to.
by Chido Onumah
Apr 19, 2021
Two weeks ago, I lost a comrade, brother, and friend, Innocent Chukwuma. Innoma, as I called him, was 55, and until a few months ago when he retired, the regional director (West Africa) of Ford Foundation. Every waking moment in the last two weeks has left me thinking about life and Innocent Chukwuma’s death.
I had a busy day on Saturday, April 3. Earlier that day, my spouse had informed me of the news of the death of the political activist, Yinka Odumakin, national publicity secretary of Afenifere, the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group. At 2:22p.m. Pacific Standard Time, I was about to put my phone on flight mode for a nap when I received a message from Dr. Chidi Odinkalu. The first message read: “Good evening sir. How are you doing?” It was followed by
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