Mother of Abia First Lady buried amidst encomiums

The body of late Mama Jemimah Nwachi Nwakanma, the mother of the First Lady of Abia State has been laid to rest in her husband’s compound, Umuorji Ohanze in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State amidst encomiums.

In a sermon during the occasion, President, Eastern Nigeria Union Conference of Seventh Day Adventist Church, Pastor Bassey Udoh, asked Christians to make sure the congregation they belong to will help them answer four onthological questions.

He listed the questions to include “who are you, where did I come from, what are my doing on earth, and where are you going from here”.

Citing the book of Genesis chapter three, verse nine to ten, Pastor Udoh urged Christians to build good relationship with God and be conscious to know where they are going after death.

The cleric reminded Christians to avoid the question God asked Adam where are you? Which he confirmed as a question of external salvation.

Pastor Udoh recalled that the glory of God departed from Eden when Adam disobeyed God and advised believers to be in new creation with God.

In a funeral oration read by her grandchild, the family noted that late Mama Jemimah Nwakanma was a qualified nurse, community leader and devout Christian who saved many lives especially mothers.

In her speech, the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, represented by Mrs. Tina Abike and chairperson of Southern Governor’s wife, Mrs. Nkechi Okorocha, said that late Mama Nwachi Nwakanma was a true representative of womanhood.

They added that testimonies proved that her virtues are worthy of emulation and prayed God to accept her soul in heaven.

In his remark, Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, says the day marks the end of a brilliant care giver, hopeful of heaven.

Governor Ikpeazu said her mother in-law served God with all her hearth as she was highly professional, nurtured and cared towards heaven.

He called on the immediate family, friends and well-wishers to take heart as Mama showed her kind gesture while alive.
Ikpeazu described her as a Pillar of strength and instrumental to Medicare.

The Governor said those who knew Mama are sure she has gone to meet her maker, saying that her death is a glorious one and urged those who have such opportunity like her to do more for people around them.

Meanwhile, her first son and former Deputy Governor of Abia State, Right Honourable, Eric Acho Nwakanma, commended all who stood by them to bide their late mother farewell and prayed God to reward them.

Speaking when members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, came to condole with him, Rt. Hon Acho Nwakanma said he and his siblings are enjoying the “fruit of old mothering” , stating that his mother lived up to ripe age.

God, he prayed, would use her agedness to look after seven of them she left behind.

His parents, he said, were used by God to bless people freely, stating that God took her away without bothering her children.
He advised the living to take her death as a testimony and live right.

Speaking, the state Chairman of Abia NUJ, Comrade John Emejor conveyed the sympathy of the journalists in Abia State.

In attendance were wives of governor’s from many states including many women leaders, government officials, business men and women, the traditional heads, clerics among others graced the funeral ceremony.

Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia