Double Chief
Nwokedi, Okpoko 1 of Obodoukwu, Nwata yana chiya dinanma 1 of Ikwuano understands
the importance of security and believes that the government cannot do it alone
in providing what the police need to secure the nation. Consequently he has
been assisting and providing security equipment to the Nigerian Police as his own
contributions to protection of lives and property.
It is on record
that Chief Nwokedi has renovated many police stations including SARS’ office in
Lagos and other parts of Nigeria. He has refurbished over 20 vehicles belonging
to the Nigerian Police at various divisions to aid them for efficient
performance. He has provided over 5,000 security torch-lights worth over
millions of naira which he distributed to officers in more than 16 states in
Nigeria. He has also supplied over 1000 rechargeable power banks and light
sockets to the Nigerian Police free to assist the officers to perform their
duties both in the day and night.
Chief Nwokedi has
given scholarship to the less-privileged in the society, building houses to the
widows as a way of securing better future for the children of the less-privileged
in the society. For his kindness, love and care for humanity, Nwokedi has
been bestowed many chieftaincy titles from various towns including his
community in Imo State. He is happily married and has children.
Not too long ago, Chief Nwokedi was also honoured at
the Annual Lecture/Awards Series of Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria (CRAN)
at Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Ikeja Lagos.
Chief Nwokedi on Saturday, 7th of December 2019, will
be receiving yet another award from Ndigbo in Mushin, Lagos. He said “Well awards
have been coming, serious awards, and I still have another one again this Saturday
this week; so I give God the glory.”
On why he accepted the latest award, Nwokedi said, “It is
a chieftaincy title. A chieftaincy title will be conferred on me by Ndigbo in Mushin
on Saturday for what I am doing for the Igbos. I have been rejecting many titles
and awards, but this time I said okay, I will take this. Already, I have more
than 13 titles, it is not food, but because I have been in Mushin. I started my
life in Mushin, for 20years, so that is why I decided to take this one that is
coming on the 7th of December.”
Nwokedi revealed some of the likely reasons why he is being
honoured by the good people of Mushin “First of all the Bible says whatever a
man sows shall he reap. No matter what you are doing on this earth, either good
or bad, people know. I have been a helping hand to Ndigbo generally, no matter
the place you come from, as far as you are an Igbo, whenever they call upon me
for any assistance, whether money, I render, as far as you are not a criminal,
you are not a 419, you are not an occutic man, you are not doing anything
against the law, whenever you call me, I will answer you. If you smoke Indian
hemp, I don’t support that.
“If what you are doing is good, it is not by my strength,
I will render it, no matter the tribe you come from, not only Igbo, Hausa and
Yoruba, after all I am paying school fees for some Yoruba children in this
Lagos, they are not Igbo, they are Yorubas, so either Igbo or Yoruba or Hausa, all
of us are one, one blood, as far as our blood is red, nobody has the blood of
yellow or white, so we are one, I believe in one unity and I believe in one
love, that is what the bible says. The bible says love your neighbor the way
you love yourself, because if there is love, all these rubbish that are
happening in this world will not be happening,’ Nwokedi stated.
Speaking about oncoming programmes of Igboburuotu, a
social cultural group which he is the founder and president, he said the
association will on the 12th of December hold their Second Year Book, Launch of
an NGO and giving of awards to about 62 members of the Nigerian Police Force, one
of the ways to solidify and concretize the relationship between the group and
the Force.
Narrating the history behind the phenomenal synergy and relationship
between him and Nigerian Police, Nwokedi disclosed “Some people are wondering
why I love the police so much. There are good eggs in police, there are bad
eggs. When I came to Lagos in 1992, I landed in Ladipo, and I started motor
spare parts. By then there was no Tokunbo, we used to travel to Onitsha to
bring the spare parts to Lagos. And sometimes the police would stop me on the
road and arrest me and say I went and butcher somebody’s motor. They would
detain me for four days, three days and take money from me.
“And again where we were sleeping then in Ladipo, I slept
in the shop for more than five years, no house. I slept outside my shop and we
were about five or six in one shop. We rented counters then, a counter was
about N200 and you pay one year. So sometimes, every Friday, police would come
and raid us and take us to the station, they would come with the SO and some
team, then on Sunday they would collect N200 from us N150 from us, you know how
much it is by then, and they would release us. They did that many times, so one
day I had the courage and I said let me go and meet that DPO and tell him what
is happening, that I don’t know why his people are treating us as if we are
criminals. So I met the DPO, and I said I am Chika Nwokedi, I came to this
Lagos to hustle and I have shop, please can you send somebody to come and know
my shop, and anything about me? He said what happen? I said because I have
slept inside this your cell for more than seven times, they normally come and
pick us every Friday and on Sunday morning they would take money from us and
release us.
“You know that time there was no phone, no handset, and
that time every DPO normally go to their house or village by Friday and leave
the work for either SO or this thing, and so the man said okay he would be
around to know what is happening.
“And they still came that same Friday, so when the man
came out, he said what? That was the day I know police de enter cell. The man
detained them. It was war. And then the man took me as his son. He gave me his
card and wrote at the back: this is my son, whatever happen, contact me. So
since then, it made me to love the police. After that the man introduced me to
one DC, Dickson, but the man died in an accident, so they gave me protection
that I needed, and they gave me love and they were all Yorubas and I am an
Igbo. So that is what made me to love the police and since then, I started
helping the police and to tell you the truth, I have given the police, this
socket (pointing at some sockets) it is about N7k, more than 500 pieces, I have
giving police torch in the 36 states, I have giving the police many things, I
have given the police tyres, revolving light, siren, I have repaired so many
police vehicles, because of the love those people showed me.
“But some people don’t know this, so I don’t want people
to pass what I pass through, I am not a criminal, I entered cell more than
seven times doing nothing, so what I passed through, I don’t want others to
pass through. That is why when you have a genuine case I will make call, I have
friends, they will investigate and act, I don’t care if you are Igbo, Hausa or
Yoruba.
“Some people say I am police informant, I am very close to
police and I say what made me to be close to the police is best known to me and
now I am saying it for the first time, I have never revealed it before on what
made me to love the police,” Nwokedi narrated.
On his message to Nigerians, “I have received so many awards
like I said when people ask me what is the secret of the awards, and I said
when someone has a very good apple, or sweet mango, and sow it, that mango will
grow for ten to fifteen years, and it begins to bear fruit, that fruit will
bring more than 1000 mangos, and it will be like that every year, I said, what
I sowed for a long is what I am reaping now. So people should not be envious,
and when you are doing good people know. So my advice to Nigerians is that they
should leave evil and turn to God, they should change their character. Whatever
you are doing in this world and your hands are clean, the almighty God must
surely bless you. Nigeria is good, it is those that are inside that are
spoiling Nigeria. And they should remember we are one Nigeria, one blood.
Nwokedi also spoke on the recent award conferred on her
wife, Pastor (Lolo) Tessy Nwokedi, he said, “Yes she is a virtuous woman, my
wife is a nice woman and for her to stay with me when I had nothing, and her
father is rich, she doesn’t feel pompous as somebody whose father has money.
You would not know she is my wife unless somebody tells you she is my wife. So
because of her character, my wife is receiving awards. She has received 5 or 6
awards and yet you won’t know, from my town, from Umuada, among others.
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