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HENRY ARCHIBONG EDET
DEACON HENRY ARCHIBONG EDET, FONDLY CALLED ‘DADDY’ BY HIS CHILDREN AND CLOSE FRIENDS, WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 22, 1944 TO MR EDET UDO NNWA FROM THE FAMILY OF NTIA IDEM IN IDU, URUAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF AKWA IBOM STATE (FORMERLY UNDER THE EASTERN REGION OF THE NIGERIA).

PARENTAGE: HIS FATHER, MR EDET UDO NNWA WAS INTO THE BUSINESS OF FARMING AND TRADING AND WAS MARRIED TO MADAM VICTORIA NKO MKPA, FROM THE FAMILY OF EKANG IN IDU, URUAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF THE STATE. AT SOME POINT IN THE EARLY PART OF HIS LIFE, HE LOST BOTH PARENTS AND SOME OF HIS SIBLINGS TO THE CRUEL HANDS OF DEATH. HE WAS LATER NURTURED BY HIS ELDER SISTER, MRS HITA PATRICK, AND AT THE SAME TIME STRUGGLED TO MAKE HIS LIFE BETTER BY SEEKING GREENER PASTURES. (PICTURE OF DADDY IN HIS YOUTH HOLDING A FLOWER AND ALSO A PICTURE OF HIM AND HIS SISTER WITH THEIR FAMILY)

EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS: A VERY HANDSOME MAN IN HIS YOUNGER DAYS, DADDY ATTENDED ST. JOSEPH PRIMARY SCHOOL, IDU, URUAN LGA AND LATER PROCEEDED TO REGINA COELI SECONDARY SCHOOL, ESSENE, IN OPOBO ( NOW KNOWN AS IKOT ABASI ) IN AKWA IBOM, WHERE HE OBTAINED HIS SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL CERTIFICATE. IN THE COURSE OF HIS EDUCATIONAL PURSUIT, HE GOT A SCHOLARSHIP FOR ADVANCED STUDIES OVERSEAS IN CANADA, IN THE 70’S AND EVENTUALLY OBTAINED HIS GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION. DADDY NEVER RELENTED IN HIS QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE AND STUDYING, AS HE LATER SAT FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANS ACCOUNTANTS OF NIGERIA (ICAN) EXAM. AS A BACKUP TO HIS ICAN PURSUIT, DADDY ALSO ATTENDED PROVIDENCE COLLEGE OF COMPUTER AND BUSINESS STUDIES AS A RESULT OF THE EVERCHANGING WORLD OF EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS, DADDY CONTINUED HIS ACADEMIC PURSUIT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS WHERE HE OBTAINED AN EXECUTIVE DIPLOMA IN ACCOUNTING, IN 1998.

APART FROM SEEKING EDUCATION FOR HIMSELF, DADDY WOULD ALSO OFTENTIMES ENCOURAGE HIS CHILDREN ABOUT THEIR INDIVIDUAL ACADEMIC PURSUIT AND ALWAYS MADE SURE HE BOUGHT THEIR BOOKS COMPLETE FOR SIX CHILDREN IN DIFFERENT CLASSES, ATTEND PTA MEETINGS DURING HIS BREAK TIME FROM WORK AND BUY SCHOOL UNIFORMS WHENEVER NEEDED. HE HIMSELF NEVER RELENTED IN THAT QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE EITHER, AS HE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN NEW DISCOVERY, HE HAD AN INSATIBLE QUEST FOR KNOWLWEDGE; HE WAS ALWAYS STUDYING FROM SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, ACCOUNTANCY AND SOCIAL WELL BEING.

AT SOME POINT IN SEARCH OF A PROMISING FUTURE, HE MOVED FROM SOUTH EASTERN STATE (NOW AKWA IBOM STATE) TO BENIN IN THE 60’S WHERE HE WORKED WITH MID- WEST LINE. FEW YEARS LATER IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES, HE WORKED AS A CLERICAL OFFICER AT METAL FURNITURE NIGERIA LIMITED AND AS THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE TURNED IN HIS FAVOUR HE WAS PROMOTED TO PURCHASING MANAGER AND LATER BECAME THE CHIEF ACCOUNTANT OF METAL FURNITURE. (PICTURE OF DADDY AT OFFICE AND WHEN HE WAS PRESENTED AWARD) AFTER WORKING WITH METAL FURNITURE NIGERIA LIMITED FOR SIXTEEN YEARS, (1978 TO 1994) DADDY BEGAN SOME PERSONAL BUSINESS, HE LATER DECIDED TO TAKE A BREAK FROM THE PERSONAL BUSINESS VENTURE AND BACK TO CORPORATE WORLD, WHERE HE MOVED TO WORK AS AN ACCOUNT OFFICER WITH GEEKOS SECURITY NIGERIA LIMITED IN CHARGE OF ACCOUNTING, PAYROLL, CREDIT CONTROL, TREASURY FUCTION, SHARES TRANSACTION FROM 1996 TO 2002. NOT SATISFIED WITH THE BUSINESS OPERATIONS THERE, HE LEFT THE COMPANY FOR NAYEE PRESS AND PUBLISHERS LIMITED AT AJAO ESTATE IN LAGOS WHERE HE ALSO WORKED AS AN ACCOUNT OFFICER BETWEEN 2003 AND 2004. POSITIVE AND FORWARD THINKING, DADDY WAS ALWAYS OPTIMISTIC OF THE FUTURE, SOMETIMES YOU WOULD HEAR HIM AFFIRM THAT HE KNOWS HIS FUTURE, BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH A MORTAL, HE WOULD DO HIS BEST TO MAKE SHARE THAT HIS PLANS ARE FUTURE-PROOF.

RELIGIOUS LIFE: A VERY GOD-FEARING, INTELLIGENT AND STRICT DISCIPLINARIAN BUT LOVING FATHER, DADDY WAS A COMMITTED CHRISTIAN, HE WAS ONCE WAS AN ALTER BOY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN IDU, AND LATER WOULD BECOME AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH MABOJU ASSEMBLY (NOW AREA) IN LAGOS, WHERE HE JOINED THE MEN’S MOVEMENT. (DADDY’S PICTURE WITH THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH MEN’S MOVEMENT MEMBERS CIRCA 1984) LATER PART OF HIS LIFE, HE ATTENDED MOUNTAIN OF FIRE AND MIRACLES SEMINARY FOR DISCIPLESHIP AND BECAME IN DEACON IN THE KETU UNIT OF THE CHURCH BEFORE RELOCATING TO HIS HOMETOWN IN URUAN, AROUND JUNE 2014.

SOCIAL LIFE: DADDY WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE IDU YOUTH ASSOCIATION, WHICH LOOKS AFTER THE AFFAIRS OF ITS CITIZENS IN LAGOS AND OTHER PLACES OUTSIDE THEIR STATE OF ORIGIN. HE WAS ALSO THE ASSOCIATION’S PIONEER PRESIDENT FROM ITS INCEPTION TO THE LATER PART OF THE 1990S. (PICTURE OF DADDY AND IDU YOUTH ASSOCIATION MEMBERS) DADDY WAS ONE PERSON THAT EVERYONE WOULD OFTEN COME TO FOR WISDOM AND GOOD DIRECTION AND HE WAS ALWAYS READY TO IMPART THAT KNOWLEDGE UPON REQUEST.

PERSONAL LIFE: DADDY WAS MARRIED TO HIS WIFE, MRS GLORY OKON EDO FROM TH FAMILY OF NYUNG EFFIONG OKON, IN THE EARLY 1970S AND THEY BOTH HAD SEVEN WONDERFUL CHILDREN WHO ARE ALL ALIVE TO THE GLORY OF GOD. DURING HIS LIFETIME, DADDY HATED INJUSTICE, CHEATING, STEALING, DISRESPECT AND ARROGANCE. HE SOMETIMES WOULD USE UNCONVENTIONAL AND POWERFUL WAYS TO TEACH HIS CHILDREN SOME OF LIFE LESSONS. HE WAS A VERY NOBLE, NEAT AND METICULOUS MAN WHO LOVED GOOD TASTE, QUALITY OF LIFE AND ORIGINALITY IN ALL THAT MUST BE ACHIEVED, LEAST TO SAY HE WAS NEAR PERFECT AND WAS SOMETIMES BE JOKINGLY CALLED ‘’MR RIGHT’’ BY HIS WIFE, MRS GLORY EDO. HE COULD EVEN COOK BETTER THAN SOME WOMEN THAT I KNOW TODAY. LEAST TO SAY THAT HE WAS ALWAYS WORKING HARD AND EFFICIENT.

BLESSED WITH SEVEN CHILDREN OF WHOM ARE ALIVE AND WELL TO BID HIM FAREWELL.

HOBBIES: HIS FAVORITE HOBBIES WERE LISTENING TO NEWS, WATCHING AND PLAYING FOOTBALL AND TENNIS, AS WELL AS PHOTOGRAPHY. SOMETIME AROUND FEBRUARY 2015, HE SUFFERED A PROTRACTED ILLNESS WHICH HE BATTLED TILL HIS LAST BREADTH IN THE EARLY HOURS OF JULY 23, 2021.

MAY HIS GENTLE AND LOVING SOUL CONTINUE TO REST IN THE BOSOM OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR, TILL WE MEET TO PART NO MORE. ADIEU GREAT DADDY, YOU REMAIN A SUPER STAR.

LEFT TO MOURN HIM ARE HIS WIFE: MRS GLORY OKON-EDO, 7 CHILDREN, AN ELDER SISTER, NEPHEW, NIECES, NUMEROUS RELATIONS, FRIENDS, NEIGHBOURS AS WELL AS BUSINESS ASSOCIATES.