Luck has continued to follow Master Joseph Oluomachi Opara who was discovered on Facebook singing Catholic gospel songs while hawking coconut in a Imo State as the state Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma has announced his intention to adopt and send him to school.
On Sunday, two former Aviation ministers, Femi Fani Kayode and Sen. Stella Oduah had posted on social media their intention to offer scholarship to the boy up to university level while Oduah promised to admit him, free of charge to her music school.
Uzudinma said he adopted the boy as his child and undertook to personally sponsor him from primary school to Catholic priesthood, if that is the career he wants to pursue.
Announcing the development to the Opara family home in Nekede mechanic village in Owerri Sunday, state commissioner for information and strategy, Declan Emelumba, said the governor sent him to inform the family that he has adopted their son as his own child and will personally take over full responsibility for training him until he becomes a Rev. Father which he said is his ambition
“His Excellency Dist Sen. Hope Uzodimma was so excited after listening to the video of Master Opara that he directed me to locate you and inform you that from today Joseph is now his child and that since he wants to become a catholic priest he will take up the responsibility of training him from his present primary 4 class until he is ordained a priest” Emelumba announced to the family.
Joseph’s Father Berneth Opara, said he was very grateful to the governor for his magnanimity.
“Please thank our performing governor, ONWA Oyoko for me. God has used him to bless my family,” he said, just as Joseph himself was full of gratitude to the governor.
