The Transition Council Chairman of Ikwuano LG, Mayor of Ikwuano, Comrade Ossy Nwaka will bid his late father, Late Snr Elder Mark Ogbonnaya Nwaka the final farewell on December 22, 2023.


A notice signed by Deacon Kennedy Nwaka and Comrade Ossy Nwaka on behalf of the Nwaka family stated that their late Patriarch would be laid to rest in his Compound at Agbo Nmiri - Umuakoo, Ibere in Ikwuano LG


He would receive final benedictions and prayers at United Christian Church before his internment 


Senior Elder Nwaka, aka Nna Oha II passed on after a brief illness on Monday, Sept 18, 2023 aged 89 years


The Ikwuano LG boss, while expressing appreciation to God for his father's quality life on mother earth, however lamented he would miss his father


“I could tell you I’m very close to my dad and  I’ve learnt so much from him.


"Three things stood my father out: first,  he was god-fearing; second,  his service to humanity was ‘second to none’, and lastly, he would never cover evil; anywhere he saw evil, he would speak up.


“In my community , they know him as a man that speaks the truth at all times and his legacies, I will pursue and everything he had stood for, I will stand for it”,  Nwaka affirmed