Ika indigenes in the United Kingdom recently buried two of their compatriots who died after a protracted illness.

             

Late Mr. Lawrence Moka

Lawrence Igwe Moka, 84, of Alisimie Village, Agbor, in the Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, was hospitalised at St. Thomas and Guy’s Hospital in London, a few metres away from the famous Westminster Bridge and under the shadow of the Houses of Parliament with Old Father Thames shimmering in the autumnal Sun.

 

A product of the Government Primary School, Boji-Boji, Agbor and Agbor Commercial Secondary School, Sapele, Delta State, he had enlisted in the Nigerian Army between 1947-1950 and served in the former Gold Coast, (now Ghana).

 

On his return to Nigeria, he worked for Barclays Bank of Nigeria, (now Union Bank) and Standard bank, (now First Bank), before travelling abroad to the United Kingdom in 1962, to further his education. He read Law and Economics and worked as an Account in the British Civil Service for 40 years before retirement

 

He married Marian Ebeigbe, a former Nigeria Airways Hostess and younger sister of the Late Captain Godwin Ebeigbe, one of the first Nigerians to be trained as Pilots in the late 1950s when Nigeria was preparing for Independence.

 

They had four children, Evelyn, Matthias, Robert and Laura and five grandchildren. He died on September 16, 2009 and was buried at the Lambeth Cemetry in Southwest London, after a Requiem Mass at the Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Brixton, also in Southwest London.

Late Mrs Dorothy Okoruwe (Nee Odozi)

 

Earlier, Mrs. Dorothy Nkem Okoruwe, (nee Odozi), a relation of Victor Odozi, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, who died on August 31, 2009, aged 57 years, was buried at the Eastbrookend Cemetery in Dagenham, Essex, on September 28, 2009.

 

A product of Marymount College, Boji-Boji, Ika, she is survived by her husband, Alfred Okoruwe of Ekuku-Agbor and a former  top-notch at  erstwhile New Nigeria Bank and six children, three boys and three girls and grandchildren.

 

 

Philip Ideh

Commonwealth Journalists Association

Email:pipcmideh@yahoo.co.uk

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