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Jimanze, quintessential polemicist takes a bow
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By Ikechukwu Amaechi
I WAS excited when my phone rang on Sunday, September 13, 2020 at exactly 5.25 p.m, and it was Dr. Jimanze Ego-Alowes. We had not seen each other since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and we spoke last in March when he called over my mother’s kidnap. That was untypically long period because we spoke often on phone. So, in my excitement, I picked the call, shouted his name and was already poking him of being overwhelmed by the country’s intractable problems when his voice stopped me in my track.