A PERSONALITY PROFILE OF ONOWU FRANK OBODOECHINA, AN IBUSA FIGURE IN THE DIASPORA

As the year, 2022 gradually comes to an end, one cannot but think prominently of Onowu Frank Obobodoechina, an Ibusa figure based in Canada.

Onowu Frank Obodoechina tended to be a great mobilizer in the name of the Ibusa community, speaking to nearly every son and daughter that he found in Canada and converging them in the name of the community. Perhaps, nowhere did the typical traditional songs of the community especially Ogbogu Okonji blare out from the loudspeakers than in the major cities of Canada.

Gifted in the communal ability to gather people, Onowu Frank Obodoechina makes the Ibusa people in the Diaspora to be very proud of where they are coming from. The Ibusa community is just lucky to have him.

A few weeks ago, PEN MASTER listed him among the 11 people that touched Ibusa in 2022, and a group of Ibusa readers, youngsters, requested that Onowu Frank Obodoechina be spotlighted for better understanding and appreciation, which is the reason for this directional light to illuminate him.

The Profile

Onowu Frank Obodoechina is a full-blooded Ibusa indigene, born to Ibusa parents; father, Michael Adigwe Obodoechina from Umuechie in Umueze and mother, Marcelinas Ositadinma Obodoechina from Umuogwo in Umuekea, both quarters of Ibusa.

Quite uniquely, Frank Obodoechina was born to full-blooded Ibusa parents and also married to a full-blooded Ibusa woman, a characteristic of purebred Ibusa ancestry that also typically defines his children's provenance, by extension.

He is one of the formidable members of the Ogbo Midwest Age Grade of Ibusa.

He works with Toyota Canada.

Those who have worked closely with him have described him as a goal-getter who achieves whatever he goes for. Team spirit is also his forte.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of several organizations

What you need to know about Onowu Obodoechina is that he is a community man to the core and a noted philanthropist who always thirsts and hunger for the cultural cause and overall betterment of his Ibusa community, Anioma, and Igbo, by extension. Frank Obodoechina can spiritedly do anything provided it will add to the laughter of the people.

To begin with, Obodoechina is the former President of the Ibusa Association of Canada that he championed for 20 years before his departure to open up other avenues in the name of Ibusa, the President of Ibusa Progressive Union of Canada, Board of Directors of the Igbo Canadian Community Association (ICCA).

He is also the President of Nigerians in Mississauga Canada and a high-profile member of the Ibusa Sports Club.

In 2018, Onowu Obodoechina and other Ibusa leaders helped to converge the Ibusa sons and daughters to hold the Ibusa Day. He then started the process to invite Pen Master and late Philip Ngozi Kwusike to deliver what he called Ibusa speeches at the Canada Ibusa event but his efforts were hindered by certain factors beyond his control.

That Frank Obodoechina does not give fish but teaches those he must help to catch fish comes to philanthropic fore when it is considered that he has assisted over 30 indigenes of Ibusa to relocate to Canada to seek greener pastures for themselves and by themselves. He has assisted several unemployed Ibusa indigenes to secure jobs in Nigeria using his contacts.

He is also particularly remembered for the many donations made to Ibusa indigenes during the COVID-19 era.

Onowu Obodoechina is married to Roseline Obodoechina nee Okonkwo from Umuodafe Quarters of Ibusa and the family is blessed with beautiful children who are also Ibusa-centric.

Onowu Frank Obodoechina is today, brought to the attention of the Ibusa public as one who promotes the Ibusa culture in the Diaspora.

Wherever the good Ibusa people are, Pen Master will surely search them out for you.

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