Fact finding Mission-
Umuchukwu-Orumba South Local Government Area
Anambra State Nigeria
What was once- a serene, sedate, agricultural rural community is steadily embracing modernity and being turned into a thriving urban town- thanks largely to the largesse of one man- Dr. Godwin Maduka. This Las Vegas based Medical Doctor and Philanthropist seeing the level of poverty in his hometown embarked on a rescue mission- sponsoring fellow indigenes to secondary and tertiary institutions, giving millions of naira in free business grants to townsmen, building several homes for the poor, widows and the homeless, building a church, residence for the parish priest, a monastery, a police station/police barracks and the State Anti Robbery Squad Divisional headquarters. Other projects include the town hall, a filling Station, a magistrate court and his flag ship-constructing a 15 floor multiplex
planned to house Offices and the Medical College of the Anambra State University College of Medical Sciences.
In an interview with HRH Igwe Emmanuel Onyeneke, Igwe Ezejiofor 11 of Ekwulobia a close friend of the late Igwe M.N. Ukaegbu of Umuchukwu-he went down the memory lane and said Umuchukwu was in the backwaters of development even as recently as the early 1990s but everything changed when Dr. Maduka brought back the blessings on his life in America back to his home town.
Life and Times took this fact finding mission to confirm all we have heard about the developments in Umuchukwu.
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