Bishop of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, has advised Nigerians to strive to change negative narratives, live impactful lives, and leave lasting positive legacies for the country and humanity.
He gave the advice in Abuja at the 3rd year memorial and 2nd Annual Impact and Legacy Lecture in honour of late Innocent Chukwuemeka Chukwuma, the Founder of Cleen Foundation.
Speaking on ‘Power of One, Dreams and Nightmares: Thoughts on Innocent Chukwuma’, Kukah said it was important for humans to dream, make impact and leave positive indelible prints in the lives of others.
“I begin by telling you about people like Pope John Paul, Malala Yousafzai, Martin Luther King, and a host of others who have used powers positively.
“The late Innocent took up a passionate commitment, and we must continue to push these frontiers that has brought greatness in Nigeria,” Kukah said.
He also said that memorials are only for those who make impacts.
Also, the chairman of Police Service Commission (PSC), Dr. Solomon Arase, said the idea of community and intelligence policing in the country could be attributed to the efforts of late Chukwuma.
Arase said that it was through the effort of Chukwuma that the trends and patterns of crime and its terminology were introduced into Nigeria’s policing vocabulary.
“The efforts of this man brought people from the metropolitan police and conveyed about 500 police officers from Nigeria to go and study what they were doing in the United States,” he said.
On her part, Mrs Josephine Effah Chukwuma, wife of the late Innocent Chukwuma, said that one of the family’s efforts at immortalising her husband was the establishment of Innocent Chukwuemeka Chukwuma Empowerment Foundation (ICCEF).
