ASMATA PG, Police, NUJ, rights groups mourn as Journalist buries wife
By Chinwe Nwacha, Onitsha
The president general of Anambra State Markets Amalgamated Traders' Association, ASMATA, Humphrey Anuna, Onitsha Police Area Commander, Chidi Nzota, Southeast Vice president, Nigeria Union of journalists, NUJ, Emmanuel Ifesinachi have at the weekend mourned as one of the journalists, Cyprian Ebele buried wife in Onitsha, Anambra State.
Others who mourned the death of the wife of the Journalist, late Mrs Ify Eucharia Ebele include; the National chairman, Human Dignity Restoration Association, HDRA, Jude Achebe, and the Anambra State chairman, Civill Liberties Organization, CLO, Vincent Ezekwueme.
The burial ceremony which took place at the husband's compound in Ogidiani-Etiti village, Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra State, also attracted scores of correspondents and vice chairman of NUJ, Anambra State, Betty Onuchukwu.
Consoling the bereaved family, the president general of ASMATA said, "The bereaved husband is our own person who has been contributing to the growth of ASMATA affairs right from the commencement of this administration.
"That is why I am here physically to join our own person, in mourning the demise of Mrs Ebele, his wife and God will not allow him to continue to cry over the death of his wife.
"You should take heart for it is the will of God that she has to depart this sinful world at her youthful age. Luckily she has trained all her children but only that she did not live to eat the fruit of her labour," he stated.
Also, the Onitsha Police Area Commander, Mr. Chidi Nzota, lamented that she died at a time she was to relax and start making merry having finished training her children.
"The bereaved journalist is my good friend and the only good thing I will tell him is to take heart as death is an inevitable thing that will come when it will come."
The Southeast Vice president, NUJ, Emmanuel Ifesinachi, in his remark prayed God to give the bereaved family the heart with which to bear the loss, adding that the deceased died when she was most needed.
"God will give the family the heart with which to bear the loss and I know that our colleague, the husband, will be protected and God will see him through for the death is so unfortunate," he stated
Jude Achebe, national chairman of Human Dignity Restoration Association, HDRA, who came with the wife, regretted the untimely death, stating that the deceased, as a teacher, has assisted in grooming most youths who today are adults.
Also, the state chairman of Civil Liberties Organization, CLO, Evangelist, Vincent Ezekwueme, thanked God for smooth burial of the deceased and prayed God to give the bereaved family the heart to bear the irreparable loss.
