Columnist: Reminiscence LIFE & TIMES OF CHIEF JOSEPH MACKINLEY ALUMONA (JP)

MOMENT OF TRUTH with Richard: LIFE & TIMES OF CHIEF JOSEPH MACKINLEY ALUMONA (JP)

By Richard Ugbeh –

The passing onto glory of a noble individual is often received with doubt, including a question like: are you sure he’s Dead? Even if it’s beyond reasonable doubt because of the person’s past activities when he/she was alive.

JOE CHEMIST demise is one of such death that is hard to believe but it’s true. In life, good people’s death is always associated with many rhetoric questions – oh Joe why now? I can’t believe this. Was he sick?

Yes, life is transient, that it vanishes like a menthylated spirit. Chief Joe Alumona was a man of many parts that threaded where others feared to near. I remember vividly as if it was yesterday, Joe chemist was the only person and the first to establish patent & tradomedical outfit in the entire Ogume and it’s environs.

Actually, he was Ogume generally archive custodian blessed with high index of history. He was among the men that made things happened in the time of yore when men were men and things were won by those who deserves them.

Last of the Titans demise has created a vacuum which will be hard to fill. Joe chemist as fondly called by friends and close associates was humble and a compassionate leader that provided for his people sacrificially for conscience sake and leave the rest.

A community leader to the core, socialite of the highest order and a good organiser infact, he was a man of many parts that means so many things to many people. He came, saw & conquered, all attributes made him Who he was.

Your sojourn on Earth Will forever be remembered by those who knew your worth & passed through you. Chief Joe Alumona, CEO, JOE BROTHERS Patent Med. Store, Ogume.

May the soul of the departed rest in peace.