The CEO of Mawedo Flourish Farm and Plant Gardens, Mr. Joseph Nicodemus Mawedo has described the death of the Former Deputy Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Hon. Enema Paul, as a big loss to the state, and Dekina local government area as a whole.
In a statement issued in Lagos state on Sunday, Mawedo said the late lawmaker, who until his death was representing Dekina Okura constituency, was a friend whom he had not met in person before but, have heard lot of good testimonies of him right from his days as Kogi Commissioner for Rural Development.
“From the little time I spoke with him on phone till recent, he’s a man that does not see life as a do or die affair.
“When he was talking to me on the phone last month, while I had the last opportunity to spoke with him, asking about his health conditions, he was an easy going being from the way he sounded always on the phone little do I know he will pass on soon.
“His death came as a rude shock and loss to Nigeria, Kogi State, Kogi East, Dekina LGA, his friends and family.
“It’s written that we all own a debt to pay and he has just paid his own. From God we came and to him shall we all return.
‘ May the soul of Hon. Enema Paul rest in peace,” he said.
Mawedo counseled everyone that still have a life now to amend their ways and live peacefully with people in around them, because nobody can tell when the call of nature will come.
He condoled the late lawmaker’s immediate family, the Kogi State House of Assembly and the government of Kogi State.
