A frontline group, Cultural Credibility Development Initiative (CCDI) has identified several reasons why the recent demise of one of its leading members, Chief Chris Asoluka, Okwuruoha, is most shocking and painful.
The group, whose representatives, led by its President, Ide Goddy Uwazurike, paid a condolence visit on the Matriarch of the Chris Asoluka family, Barrister Mrs. Nneka Chris Asoluka, at their Lagos home over the weekend, in a condolence message, said that they mourn the late statesman because he had a lot more to offer to humanity.
They acknowledged, in the message endorsed by Ide Uwazurike and the group’s Secretary, Steve Nwabuko, that the departed “change agent, growth enforcer, hand lifter, talent hunter, empowerment provider and disperser of genuine love and respect for other human beings” still had a lot more to contribute in terms of “intellectual resourcefulness, diligent service and servant leadership.”
Lamenting that the “greatly assertive, cerebral, bold, humble and result oriented” leader of leaders had exited when his services were seriously required, the CCDI noted that “if there was any other time his presence was needed in Alaigbo, it is in this current dispensation of aloofness, hunger, poverty, insecurity, youth restiveness, vacuous leadership and ethical inertness that has consumed the hearts of many to succumb to trepidations and victim hood.”
Notwithstanding the shock and pain of the loss, the group thanked God for the “very worthy, fruitful, glorious and graceful life Okwuruoha, Dr Chris Asoluka lived before his passage at the age of seventy years,” pointing out that the former President of Aka Ikenga, a leading Igbo organization, “left no assignment unattended to before his departure to eternity.”
They also prayed God to fill the vacuum that the exit of the chieftain of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has created, receive his soul in heaven and comfort his family and all others that are mourning his passage, as well as grant them all the fortitude to bear the irreparable exit.
A highly respected Maritime expert, the Imo State born former member of the House of Representatives passed away recently at the age of 70, leaving behind his wife, Barrister Nneka Chris Asoluka, children, relatives and well wishers worldwide.
