{"id":31418,"date":"2021-02-11T19:11:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=31418"},"modified":"2021-02-11T19:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:11:18","slug":"former-imo-ssg-onyeagocha-speaks-on-family-members-covid-19-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=31418","title":{"rendered":"Former Imo SSG Onyeagocha Speaks On Family Members COVID-19 experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunji Adedeji<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is absolutely a moment of grief for the&nbsp; Immediate past Secretary to the state government, Hon Uche Onyeagocha has opened up on his family&#8217;s COVID-19 experience in far away California, United States of America,USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Onyeagocha&nbsp; made this disclosure while&nbsp; addressing Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi and members of the Imo State PDP State Executive&#8217;s during their condolence visit over the demise of his brother, Late Chief Ikechukwu Onyeagocha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recounting his siblings ordeal at his country home,<br>Onyeagocha said ,&#8221; don&#8217;t be deceived Covid-19 is real and I&#8217;m using this opportunity to let our people know .&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one time federal lawmaker said death has really dealt with the Onyeagochas&#8217; family and the sad thing about the ugly development&nbsp; was that his mother is still alive and the family doesn&#8217;t even know how to inform her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Owerri West born politician said,&#8221;almost every member of my family, my mum,eldest sisters ,brothers and children living in our California family house had Covid-19 at one time or the other but the good thing is that they all are fine now . I never knew my eldest brother ,who was front line health care giver based in US could lost the battle to Covid-19\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hon Uche Onyeagocha seized the platform to advise people to adhere to safety guidelines against the deadly coronavirus .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, anyone who says coronavirus is not real should not be trusted. The virus is real and killing people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&nbsp; described his late brother as his &#8220;Hero&#8221; and great community leader in California who gave him all the support that enabled him stand as a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He appealed to Imo people to please take covid-19 seriously because he never wished for another condolences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier Distinguished Senator Onyewuchi leader of the delegation during their visit described the late Onyeagocha as a man of so many styling qualities ,urging the family to see his death as the will of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He disclosed that its only God that can console the Onyeagocha&#8217;s family , even though they were at the immediate SSG&#8217;s country home to condole with him on the death of his most eldest brother ,a man whom they all respect and see as a man of great courage .<br>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunji Adedeji This is absolutely a moment of grief for the&nbsp; Immediate past Secretary to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uche-onyeagocha.jpg",761,761,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uche-onyeagocha-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uche-onyeagocha-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uche-onyeagocha.jpg",640,640,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uche-onyeagocha.jpg",640,640,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uche-onyeagocha.jpg",761,761,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uche-onyeagocha.jpg",761,761,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uche-onyeagocha.jpg",761,761,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uche-onyeagocha.jpg",380,380,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uche-onyeagocha.jpg",200,200,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/uche-onyeagocha.jpg",50,50,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31419,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31418\/revisions\/31419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}