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Late Mrs Iyom Chinelo Amechi
By PAMELA EBOH, Awka
The wife of First Republic Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amechi, is dead.
Iyom Chinelo Amechi, who had been on admission at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, for 10 days, died on June 23, 2021.
A retired Chief Nursing Officer, Mrs Amechi, 97, hailed from Umuoji in Idemili South Local Government Area of the state.
Speaking with reporters on Tuesday in his Ukpor country home, in Nnewi South Local Government Area, the husband, Chief Amechi, thanked God for the time he spent with his beloved wife, saying that her many good deeds would be greatly missed by his family.
He described the late wife as a typical professional nurse and good housewife who was able to blend her professional work with home management.
He said: “She was a typical professional nurse and a good housewife. She was able to blend her professional work with home management.
“I’m happy to have married her because she helped to nurse me. She was the head of the Catholic Women Organization in the church. She also played a prominent role during my nationalist drives.”
While expressing his dislike for polygamy, the elder statesman said that as a member of Zikist movement, he swore never to marry until Nigeria gained independence.
He described himself as a trado-Christian.
