The service of songs for former Minister of state for Labor, James Ocholi, held at the National Christian Centre, Abuja yesterday March 16th….
The former Minister, his wife, Blessing and son Joshua all perished in a fatal accident along the Kaduna-Abuja road on March 6th.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara, Minister of Labor and Employment Chris Ngige and others were in attendance…
News7ng.com reportage.
RIP
ReplyDeleteDear God,i pray you comfort them because this pain is beyond heartcrushing and beyond human comfort.
DeleteMay God continue to comfort the family. The children are lucky that FG is assisting them in everyway possible.
ReplyDeleteGoodluck to them.
No matter how much the FG tries, it can never be like what the parents would have done.
DeleteThe children don't understand what has just happened to them. Which FG? Let's wait and see
DeleteI wouldn't have been able to stand at all, they r strong!
ReplyDeleteI thought the ocholi family was suppose to be morning?
ReplyDeleteWhat's with the very fashionable blue prints?
Same thought here. Their outfit doesn't depict mourning.
DeleteThat outfit is terribly simple. I Thut of it initially but I see nothing wrong,dey may want to look @ it as a celebration of a great man passing on Dan mourn. Dey r hurting but may not want it to turn into a pity party for dem. Hence show a strong front...
Delete*mourning
DeleteMorning kwa?...mourning,thank me NOW
DeleteYes dey are 'morning'#Mtcheeeew haters don't know what to comment n still won't b quiet,what's wrong with d fashionable blue prints? Maybe dey should v worned dark rags so u'll b happy n be fulfilled day dey are really 'morning'. Longer mtcheeeew
DeleteBecause they want to be fashionable!!!!
DeleteFashionable prints? If it was their father's ministerial appointment party and they wore this...would you have called it fashionable?!
DeleteFor all you know that's the cheapest and wackiest cloth they have or it was most likely given to them.
They might even still be at the denial stage..
Must they wear rags? Ha!
DeleteIn Igala land we don't wear Black to mourn. You can't wear white or any other color except black. You cannot wear anything flamboyant or loud either,that is the culture.
DeleteI am Anioma, Igbo speaking area of Delta state and our native cloth is white.
DeleteAt my dad's we all wore white with any blouse of choice. Only my mum wore a dark color.
So easy with the judging, no be color them de know the best mourned.
Oh. I am still sad.
ReplyDeleteLook at those poor orphans.chai
And see the baby in the low cut.
Ah.it is well ooo.
RIP The Ocholis.
May they continue to rest in peace, Amen. Very sad. May God Almighty please console his children and family.
ReplyDeleteSo sad!
ReplyDeleteMay their souls rest in the bosom of the Lord.
ReplyDeleteSo them see road go sew dansiki style now now?
ReplyDeleteMay God console d family...its a huge loss...
What were u expecting them to wear? Haba
DeleteHabaaaaa!
DeleteE fit even be person get d material n sew am free just for them.
Pple wey tire heavy gele + make-up +costume nko? N wedding dey invite dem com?
Abegi make una park well.
Only d God they beliv in can comfort them.
Loose one's parents at d same time + brother, tufiakwa!
May their souls rest in peace
ReplyDeleteSo sad,I pray the family finds the strength to recover from the loss.
ReplyDeleteWho is that one that have time to rub red lipstick.
ReplyDeleteRip to the dead.
I don't think d one dt rubbed lipstick is deir biological child,maybe adopted daughter or niece dt was living with them
DeleteI tire, some people are just scared to stay natural. Imagine she even know where her makeup dey.
DeleteI wonder oooo
DeleteMay their souls rip
ReplyDeleteThis is too heartbreaking
Aru mere.
ReplyDeleteI really feel for the children.
ReplyDeleteReality will hit them......both parents died not even one.
May God console his children.
ReplyDeleteWhoever did this ......... Hnmmmmm it is well. Their outfit is fine sha
ReplyDeleteThis is a huge loss to the family,
ReplyDeleteMay God console them.
What a sad sight
ReplyDeleteThey don't look like they are mourning ooo. I just can't imagine me dress like that in that kind of situation. May the souls of the departed rest in peace
ReplyDeleteVery sad,Rip
ReplyDeleteGod help them, but for Buhari not to be there was extremely sad to me, shows he does not care about the members of his Executive Cabinet. He has not even vicisted them, spare me that bullship of Osibanjo representing him.
ReplyDeleteI hate when parents die, usually after the burial they are usually abandoned and forgotten. May God help and strengthen them.
Visited ohhh! Visited!
DeleteRIP
ReplyDeleteI cannot begin to imagine what they are going through..both parents!!!!
ReplyDeleteThey might not even have been hit by reality yet, they might not even feel the real pang until when the whole crowd still milling around them cease. And then they are at home ALONE.
Even if their mum and dad were harsh and stiff, they would miss that... not to talk of the pang they would feel if it was the other way round.
Only God can console them...only God can explain.
RIP to dead
ReplyDeleteRIP father, mum and Son.
ReplyDeleteMay God console the family.
For those commenting on dere clothes.
ReplyDeleteIt may be a relative that even sewed this clothes for dem. For someone to start deciding how a mourner shld dress or act is just so wrong.
May God forgive you.
Amen o
DeleteAmen.
DeleteFather console them.
ReplyDeleteThe whole story is too tragic jare
ReplyDeleteFather, mother and son! Oh no It really saddened my heart
I pray God give the rest of the family the fortitude to bear the loss and may the souls of the departed continue to rest in peace. Amen
What's with people and their expectations on how others must behave? They're wearing fashionable prints, they should be rolling on the floor, they should wear sackcloth, one has red lipstick, blah blah blah. At the end of the day, you can only offer platitudes and move the heck on. They can't because this is their reality from now. Years from now, you'll just mention it in passing but they would be living it.
ReplyDeleteOn the day my elder brother was buried two months ago, I was looking sharp and dry-eyed. I'm sure ignorant people pointed fingers because my dad was there and none of us wore black. But they wailed and left. I still have nightmares whenever I close my eyes. The image of his face in death and the Y autopsy scar is burned forever in my memory. In my head, I know he's dead, but I sleep and wake with this feeling of numbness. I keep my mouth shut and cope with this new reality. His father lost his eldest son, his eight year old son lost his only parent, I lost my brother And on it goes...
My point is no one has the right to tell another how to grieve.
Well said dear.
DeleteI love you Duchess moe for your comment. May God comfort you all and may your brother's soul rest peacefully.
DeleteThank you Duchess Moe for this!
DeleteLike people are dissing what dey wore. Like really??? Chai
May God comfort u Dear.ur bro is in a better place.take care of u dear.
I hope ppl honour dere pledges to dis kids.
ReplyDeleteThat is how when I lost my dad I was just 10. different relatives/dads friends promised so many things, as my dad was very generous. He even sent sum relatives kids abroad along with my older siblings. He gave some relatives his flats to stay for free.
Maybe dos ppl helped out the 1st and 2nd year. After dat we were on our own.
The brodas even staying in his house didn't ask about our wellbeing. Everybody was doing dere own thing.
Twenty yrs later we are all grown, wanted to start taking possession of d properties.
When we went to see d so called brother, he didn't recognise any of us.
We told him we want to sell d house his staying. He claimed my dad gave him.
So uncle where is ur papers that he gave you.
we dragged it, he now finally said we have to build him his own small house if he is to leave. How ???? we he has his own kids.
We sold the house with him in it, its d buyer dat sorted his leaving.
I hope this wont be the Ocholi's case.
They may have good relatives anyway.
Thank God for seeing you guys through , may he see the Ocholis through also
DeleteLMAO @ we sold d house with him in it😃😃😃
DeleteMy dear anonymous when I look back I thank God my father didn't die. Or else ehn, I don't know what my life would have been. My dad's started out early and by 35 he had married, had all his kids, built at least 5 houses, had an executive MBA and was already featuring on NTA discussing Financial issues for Nigeria. As God will have it, the company he floated collapsed overnight. Na that time problem start. (THIS IS WHY I CAN NEVER BE A HOUSE WIFE). ALL the people my father trained did not only abandon us but turned their backs to mock us. I was only 6 years old then. I watched furniture, cars and even split units disappear, I watched my school change and all my mum's jeweleries disappear. I watched all domestic staff disappear. I finally started watching Nigerian TV. Things were bad. As in BAD. I now knew how to enter car without AC, and walk back from school. Shortly after that incident, we were robbed and even the remaining electronics we had were taken from us. My mum said my dad will sleep on certain nights and be breathing like he wants to give up the ghost. One night she woke him uo and kenlt down and begged him not to leave her with these children. Cos he was highly depressed and his BP was at an all-time high. For almost a decade we were moving from court case to this to that. Not even my dad's siblings whom he sent to school abroad helped. Not even the church members some of whom he bought cars for remembered us. Not even my mum's siblings he trained helped. Not his friends whom he gave capital for business, not his village boys he gave capital for business, not his half brothers and sisters who's children be trained. NOT ONE!! But you know what, God took care of us. My mum dusted her certificates and started working. No person tell her. We kept managing our lives and ignoring everyone who laughed at us. Infact, we stopped expecting.
DeleteToday, shame has bathed those people ehn.... I can't explain how bad the shame is on them. Of course the whole family divided nau. And they are wanting to gum body because they don't understand how we made it through. But we did. All of us including my dad. The fall of a man is truly not the end of life.
These children should hold on to God. Very tightly. Hopefully their father left some assets they can use to help themselves. But putting hope on friends relatives and extended family.... *yimu* Na them bad pass. Surprisingly, help comes from strangers you least expect. The bible says whatsoever we sow we will reap. If their father was a good man they will reap good from unexpected sources. So they should just keep calm and hold God.
Anons 13:57 kai i don laugh tire. Una sell una uncle together with the house. your uncle even tried that he did not do juju on una.
ReplyDeleteabeg make una enjoy your daddy's sweat jare. We have wicked relations everywhere
Chai! So so sad
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