Senate Mourns Sen Okoroafor …Visits Bereaved Family

A Senate Ad hoc
Committee has, paid a condolence visit to the family of late Senator Onyekachi Okoroafor and the Enachioke of Abriba,Eze Kalu Ogbu.
The leader of the committee, Sen. Biodun Olujimi, said Okoroafor’s death was a great loss to the people of Abia and Nigeria at large.
Olujimi said that “it is evident that the deceased touched many lives from the grassroots to the national level.
“Although death is inevitable. We will have wished for him to live a little longer. Also the Senate will like to be part of the burial plans,” he said.
He prayed God to grant the family the fortitude to bear the loss, and urged the people of Abia to preserve the legacies left by the deceased.
Responding the Enachioke of Abriba thanked members of the committee for the condolence visit.
Also, the wife of the deceased, Mrs Flora Okoroafor, thanked the Senate for identifying with the family.
Similarly, Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, said that the death of Okoroafor was a personal loss to the government of Abia.
Ikpeazu said that Abia had lost an illustrious family member whose contributions would have been of immense benefit to the growth and development of the state.
The other members of the committee were Enyinnaya Abaribe, Theodore Orji, Samuel Anyanwu, Sunday Ogbuoji, Mao Ohuabunwa and Barnabas Gemade.
Okoroafor, third republic senator, served as a South-East representative in the National Assembly Service Commission.
He died on Feb. 27 at the age of 74 and would be buried on July 30.