I spoke to him a day before another human willfully took his life – Chidiogo Akunyili Parr mourns her father who was brutally murdered in Anambra

Chidiogo Akunyili Parr is mourning her father, Dr.Chike Akunyili, who was brutally murdered by unknown gunmen in Anambra State.

 

Chike, the widower of late former Director-Basic of the Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management (NAFDAC) Dora Akunyili, was shot lifeless alongside his police escort and driver, at Afor Nkpor in Idemili North Native Authorities Space of the state on Tuesday.

Taking to her social media accounts on Thursday, September 30, the mom of 1 revealed that she had spoken to her father a day earlier than his grotesque homicide.

In accordance with Chidiogo, her father was properly conscious of the worsening insecurity within the nation and infrequently went out anymore.

“Ubuntu – ‘I’m as a result of we’re’. If this holds true, then the person who pulled the set off twice is as a result of we’re — his anger, the injustice of his motion, and his violence are as a result of it’s mirrored on the earth round him. If ‘I’m as a result of we’re’, then my father’s ache gasping for breath in his final moments is as a result of we as a nation are in ache,” she wrote.

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“I spoke to him on Monday, only a day earlier than one other human willfully took his life. We couldn’t have identified it might be the final. We spoke about my mom, in regards to the award being bestowed upon her the following day and the way it was a birthday current from her to me.

“He requested after his latest grandchild who he had given the identify Mmesomma — ‘the one who does solely lovely issues’. And above all, he bemoaned the state of issues within the nation. As a surgeon, all the time frontline with the folks’s struggling, he shared simply how seen the present hardships have been.

“Sufferers, he mentioned, have been not in a position to pay for care. It didn’t assist, he added, that nobody was protected. I requested him if he was being cautious and he assured me that he was, happening so as to add that he by no means went out anymore and was certain to be dwelling by 6. Satisfied, I reminded him to be much more cautious and to deal with himself.

“If Ubuntu holds true, that he’s — a son, a beloved father, a loving grandfather, a healer, a Papal knight, Agbalanze of Agulu, a pal, a brother, and a lot extra — then that is an invite for us to search out the nice in is us. We are able to select a distinct path… this present one results in extra mindless dying and ache for one too many.

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