AV AWARD PROFILE NO 6:ENGR. (CHIEF) JOSEPH CHIAZOR OKECHUKWU (OMEROHA I OF AKEGBE UGWU)
Engr. (Chief) JosephChiazor Okechukwu was born on Friday, October 29, 1954 to the family of Chief Okechukwu Ude (Ude UdeEwo) 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 9 th 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, but not before he got admission into the prestigious Christ the King College (CKC), Onitsha. However at the end of the war in 1970,he enrolledat the nearby St...