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The head of Ford Foundation West Africa and one of Nigeria’s civil society leaders, Innocent Chukwuma, has been reported dead.
This news is coming as the civil society and human rights community is still grappling with the death of Yinka Odumakin.
Chukwuma, who was 55 years old, passed away late on Saturday, April 3, 2021, after being diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, an aggressive cancer of the blood.
His friend, Edetaen Ojo in a message said, “
With profound shock and sadness, I regret to inform you that Innocent Chukwuma passed away a few hours ago, in the evening of April 3. May his soul rest in peace.”
Innocent Chukwuma
How to believe that Nigeria’s prominent civil society leader, Innocent C. Chukwuma, is gone at 56! Among other important unfinished business–he still had a lot to give–was the conversation he began with me only six weeks ago concerning an important family matter hanging in the balance!
I first met Innocent during his Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) days when the organization was home to many of us who subscribed to a just and egalitarian country. My good friend Abdul Oroh was one of the activists at the helm and many other comrades who have since moved on to found their own organizations worked under the same CLO umbrella. Among them were friends on the Environmental Rights Action (ERA) wing chiefly Nnimmo Bassey and Oronto Douglas.
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Innocent Chukwuma
How to believe that Nigeria’s prominent civil society leader, Innocent C. Chukwuma, is gone at 56! Among other important unfinished business–he still had a lot to give–was the conversation he began with me only six weeks ago concerning an important family matter hanging in the balance!
I first met Innocent during his Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) days when the organization was home to many of us who subscribed to a just and egalitarian country. My good friend Abdul Oroh was one of the activists at the helm and many other comrades who have since moved on to found their own organizations worked under the same CLO umbrella. Among them were friends on the Environmental Rights Action (ERA) wing chiefly Nnimmo Bassey and Oronto Douglas.