Ikenna Okafor donates buildings to Akwaeze Sch, awards scholarships, holds medical mission

~ Set to sponsor farmers in community with 200 plots of land, N250m loan

By Ifeizu Joe 

The founder of Idi Ezeani Nzekwuabuo Foundation, Mr Ikenna Okafor, at the weekend donated three edifices to Community Secondary School, Akwaeze, in his community, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State.

The buildings; an administration building, a classroom block and refectory were commissioned by the Catholic Bishop of Ekwulobia Diocese, His Eminence, Peter Ebere Cardinal Okpalaeke during a short event at the school compound.

The buildings were part of Idi Ezeani Nzekwuabuo Foundation activities to mark the end of year. The foundation which was founded by Ikenna in memory of Mr Paulinus Okafor, his father also undertook other activities including a medical mission; which diagnosed and treated indigent people in the community and scholarship to primary, secondary and tertiary institution students totalling over 200 in number.

The foundation also gave out cash gifts, food items to widows and other vulnerable people as part of celebration of love for the Christmas.

Okafor in an interview with THE RAZOR said: “I’m intentional about what I want to do for this community, and we have started with education, health and agriculture.

“What my father gave me, which helped my foundation to this day was education. I want to do same for every child born in this community. We started by ensuring the community secondary school is up to date, so far we spend N650million to donate three buildings and equipping them, and it’s is looking like a university today.

“We have also given scholarships to students of all cadre, and this year we added a medical mission. Another thing we are doing is that beyond giving out food stuff, we have mapped out 200 plots of land, which we want to give out to farmers to cultivate, and we are giving N250million as loan to help farmers meet our food needs in this community.

“When we have education, good health and can meet our food needs, I wonder what else we should be asking for. We want to be the big shoulder that people in this community can lean on when they need succour,” he said.

THE RAZOR reports that in scholarships; primary school pupils got N30,000 each for their tuition, N80,000 for secondary school students, N250 to N300,00 for students in the same cadre with special needs. Undergraduate got between N300,000 and N500,000. 50 widows got N50,000 as Christmas support, while members of sickle cell foundation in the state got N1million and drugs to help their plight.