Okunano Voices (Culture Documentaries)

ENGR. (CHIEF) JOSEPH CHIAZOR OKECHUKWU (OMEROHA I OF AKEGBE UGWU) Engr. Joseph Chiazor Okechukwu was born on Friday, October 29, 1954 to the family of Chief Okechukwu Ude and Mrs. Chikaodili Ude (nee Aneke) in Umuokwuo, Akegbe Ugwu, Awkunanaw in Nkanu West L.G.A. of Enugu State. He is the first child of his mother and the 9th child of his father in a family of eighteen (18) children from six wives. He started his primary school in 1962 at St. Francis Primary School, Umuatugbuoma, while living with his elder brother, the late Chief John Okechukwu who was the Headmaster of the school.  He was always the first in his class except for once when he came second and got the beating of his life from his Guardian who was a legendary disciplinarian. His primary education was disrupted in the final year when the Nigerian civil war broke out in 1967.  At the end of the war in 1970, he entered St Patrick’s College, Emene, where in 1974 he passed the WAEC school certificate examin...

We are Okunano The descendants of Ntuegbe Eze, Born in the proximity of the rising sun. The rich palms and the spicy tastes of the east, The rivers, the valleys and the sea of sands The flowers and the multi colored grasshoppers, The differences of our market days, Eke, Orie,Awhó ,Nkwó all combines to define the face of our own native land.  We are Okunano The flourishing palms of Ntuegbe Eze On our breasts rests the visions of Ntuegbenese In great challenges and opportunities We are as the rising sun from the east. Though adversity may belabor us  And still we rise like the sun.  Even when malice and envy thrived  We still rise like the sun  In the putrid atmosphere of our unity We revel like the sun The weight of darkness strong may be We will rise like the sun To accomplish our greatest feat We will travel like the sun Okunano Osagwede! Osagwede Osawuwa! ©Okunano Voices™