Late Matriarch Ezinne Maria Ezenwanyi Nnah Uzoma of Agwa kingdom.
The second daughter of the then traditional ruler of Agwa District in Imo State, a Second Class Chief and member of the Eastern Region Council of Chiefs, Matriarch Ezinne Maria Ezenwanyi Nnah Nne Uzoma has been reporteedly left this world at the ripe age of 90years.
Senior Apostle Christian C. Nnah said, that her burial has been scheduled to hold on Friday 7th January, 2022.
According to Senior Apostle Nnah, Ezenwanyi's body would be moved from mortuary to St. Charles Catholic Parish, Okwu Ogbaku in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State, and interment would commence immediately after the funeral mass service at the family compound.
He said Matriarch Ezinne Maria Ezenwanyi Nnah before her death was a lovely wife to her husband, a friend of all, the mother of eleven children - ten of them still alive, left behind fifty three grandchildren, and twenty six great grandmother.
Recall that Ezenwanyi Nnah was born on 24th March 1931 to the family of Chief Joseph Uzoma and Mrs Margaret Uzoma of Umushim Obudi now Obudi Agwa Autonomous community.
She went through St. Theresa's Primary School, now Central School Obudi Agwa for her primary education and was in standard five when her husband, Columbus Nnah came back from the Second World War in India - working with the Post and Telegraphs Department of the Federal Ministry of Telecommunication to take her hand in marriage.
Ezenwanyi Nnah in 1949 got her first son and in 1979 when she got the last, and also had traversed eight towns in the northern and southern of Nigeria with her husband before her husband's retirement in 1972.
To make up her education as an industrous woman, she traded food stuff, provisions, making bons and selling them to help her husband and the entire household.
Life was rosy till the Nigeria Civil War when the family came back home. However, the travails of the civil war, humiliations, sufferings, hunger, poverty and went devastated the populace and took its toll on the young family, but according to Apostle Nnah, they were lucky to survive the ordeals, including the hard experiences faced by the woman after the demise of her husband in 1973, in order to raise her children.
Apostle Nnah also stated that Ezenwanyi Nnah distinguished herself in Church and social activities by touching lot of lives in her lifetime especially the poor, widows and orphans.
In his words, she was a wonderful counselor, a peace ambassador and mediator to many people.
He said that Ezenwanyi Nnah held a lot of positions in the church including Treasurer of St. Kevin's Catholic Parish for nine years, President of Catholic Women Organization of St. Charles Parish Okwu Ogbaku for nine years, and thereafter, became Matron of the organization as well as the President of the Confraternity of our Lady in the parish as the founder.
"In social activities, Ezenwanyi Nnah was Vice President of Ogbaku Progressive Union (OPU) Women Wing, Matron Okwu Development Union (ODU) Women Wing Okwu Ogbaku till her death and she was also the President of Agwa Women married at Ogbaku and a strong member of the National Party of Nigeria (NPP) during the political days, among others," he also stated.
Meanwhile, Nnah family, relatives and well-wishers have thus, thanked God for the fulfilled life of Ezenwanyi Nnah and prayed her gentle soul rest in the bosom of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
