Three days after evangelist Sunday Chukwu’s remains were laid to rest, ripples of the events have kept on spreading on social media and through the word of mouth. There is a reason.
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Recall that evangelist Chukwu, father of a South Africa-based billionaire gold merchant Ikechukwu Chukwu who is popularly known as Accurate, was buried on January 4. It was the gathering of billionaires and influential personalities from across Oduma and beyond.
The Mail correctly predicted that the burial ceremony was going to be ostensible display of pomp and wealth, adding to the joy that the deceased lived a fulfilled, godly life and died at a natural death at 74.
Various video clips have since gone viral, each highlighting different sections of the burial.
From the touching moments of the corpse arrival from the morgue through to awe-inspiring display of its dancing-carriers to the final laying it to rest, everyone was enthralled.
“It was one of the most attended burial ceremony I ever seen in Oduma since I was born,” Chief Uwakwe Azoribe, a 76-year-old man, told The Mail in an interview.
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Who is Evang. Sunday Chukwu?
Born in 1950 – 10 years before Nigeria’s Independence and 17 years before the outbreak of the civil war – evangelist Sunday Chukwu (a.k.a Nwachinemere) was one of the children of Mr and Mrs Gabriel Chukwu. He hailed from Amenemene Amagu Oduma in Aninri local government area, Enugu State.
At the time when Oduma almost knew no other profession apart from farming, his parents brought him up as a trader. This gave him an edge as he rose very quickly and became a wealthy man, combining farming, trading and transportation business.
In 1972 Nwachinemere was ordained a pastor at St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Amagu Oduma, a church that his father singlehandedly brought for the people.
Barely few years later, he tore down the mud church house and elected another with bricks at the times such a house was rare in Oduma.
The clergyman also held leadership positions in the community and in various sociocultural organizations.
He married Mrs Rebecca Sunday Chukwu, with whom he had 5 children, in 1971; in 1982 he married a second wife, Mrs Roseline Sunday Chukwu who brought forth 8 children.
But in 2012, the clergyman had ideological shift, making him to abandon Anglican Church to found the Pentecostal Bible Church.
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