By Chiedu Uche Okoye
It was incredible that no lives were lost when a 120-year old ancestral tree, the height of which was about 150 feet, fell at the Eke Obosi market, destroying shops and traders’ goods, there.
The fallen sacred tree was totemic of the Eke Obosi market, which is the bastion of Obosi people’s culture and traditions.
Eke Obosi market, which was rebuilt by the billionaire politician and Philanthropist, Engr. Eric Anyamene, is a place for the performance of communal traditional rites and carrying out of economic activities.
The age-old market, which, until recently, was an excrescence on the surrounding beautiful landscape, was given a modern look by Engr. Anyamene, who rebuilt it.
Commenting on the incident of the fallen tree, Nze Isaac Ejindu thanked God because no lives were lost in the incident, and expressed hope that Engr. Anyamene would help in re-building the destroyed shops.
“I thanked God, greatly, that no lives were lost in the incident. But I am saddened as twelve shops were destroyed by the fallen tree.
“But we are expectant that Engr. Eric Anyamene, who behaves as though he came from another planet, will rise to the occasion and behave true to type,” Ejindu said.
More so, a comedian, skit-maker, and master of ceremonies, Mr. Chibuzo Odogwu, whose stage name is “Ezemmuo Bluetooth”, said that the fall of the tree signified that the light of God had dispelled the darkness of Satan.
” The spiritual significance of the fall of the tree is that God’s light has dispelled Satan’s darkness.
“As the tree has fallen, so shall we witness the onset of good happenings in the ancient Obosi kingdom,” Odogwu said.
And Mrs. Monica Moneke, an indigene of Awka-etiti, who sells tomatoes and vegetables at the market, expressed thankfulness to God for not letting the tree crush people to death.
