Dear Daddy, I have heard so much about you even as I couldn't meet you but it feels like I had. Your good deeds, teachings and exemplary lifestyle lives on and this we hold  close to our heart, You were such a great Father not only to your children but to everyone that had the opportunity of knowing you. I am absolutely convinced you would have been not just the Best Father-in-law but also a coach and mentor to me and your Son. I know you're watching over us even while you rest. Keep resting Papa ❤

The memories of Daddy are still always fresh with me, why? Because of the bosom friendship and mentorship that existed between Him and my Late Father, Evangelist Okiyi Ago Kalu. This friendship was further extend to the Okorafor's and the Okiyi's family till date. Daddy was a good man in all sense of it.

Looking back at the great friendship they had leaves me perturbed at the state of friendship that now exist in today's world which is ridden with all manner of nefarious tendencies.

He was my Late Father's destiny helper. My Father's only regret while alive was that "I wish I had met Brother Okarafor much earlier than I met him".
This he said as a result of the more value that the friendship would have impacted on humanity.

Personally, I also have found memories of Daddy as a gradeschooler 
(5-12years), He was always fun to be with as he had a special way of relating with everyone and across different age groups. What a man!. One of the memories of Daddy that will remain throughout my lifetime, is his special way of having handshakes, which is that He shakes you with his hand and says "tubirikom".

I take solace in the fact that two bosom friends have been reunited.

Keep on resting Daddy till we all meet on the resurrection morning.

- Okiyi, Chukwuma Egbuta

(on behalf of the Okiyi's family)

If only I can turn back the hands of time, if only I can rewind these 14 years... cos i need you today like crazy Daddy! Your demise created a vacuum no one has been able to physically fill till this day. Growing up into a man without you has been a tough journey that only God knows, so much has happened, but I'm grateful to God for His ever loving and comforting presence through it all. I really really miss you Daddy, every now and then i wish you were still here, but alas! it all happened for good.
Keep resting on my mentor, my friend!
We'll meet in heaven real soon!

Yours,
~Okoro

Today marked 14 years since you departed the face of the earth but you live forever in our hearts. We love you daddy till eternity ❤️❤️❤️

Daddy,you are forever and deeply missed by us all.I remember that you had so much faith in who God created and wanted me to be,at every opportunity you reminded me of this.
Thank you for being a great Daddy,i couldn't have asked for a better father,i remember on that faithful day,a night before you went to be with the Lord,i was sent home by my sibblings to go and rest and get food in the morning.

In the night i got so scared of being along at home,i just went straight to your room and layed on your bed,guess what,i was enveloped with warmth and peace,then i started missing you,that was when i started crying,i could have prayed for God to heal you but i couldn't, i remember you telling me that you will go be with our Lord when He calls you back home,even when i tried bribing you to stay more with us so that you can see your grandchildren,because i know that as mum has left your spirit has left too,it was only your physical seft was was with us,you have always believed in the will of God.
Then i heard a voice with clear instructions to go and pack your clothes on the hangers inside a box and all your belongings, just like you instructed me to do when mummy passed away.after doing that,i slept off likea baby.
 Then the next morning i bounced to the hospital, only for me to see my sibblings gathered outside the hospital corridor,i noticed them looking at me with one eye and i knew that you have gone,i didn't cry,i wasn't angry at God for taking you away,because you prepared me for a time like this and you still guided me in the spirit in your last days,i shocked my sibblings by going into the room all by myself,i opened the clothe they used in covering you and had a final conversation with you and kissed you goodbye on the cheek,that moment i grow up and knew that nothing can ever break me again.

Thank you,Sir for being the best Dad in this whole world,i still love and miss you,i really miss your voice,words of God and wisdom and that deep laughter and dance steps.thanks to you and Mum for giving me my wounderful sibblings .
I Love You*
Your Mma Grace.

I have so missed your soft voice, since in my life, I have never met any honorable man with no iota of anger or stress in his voice, no matter what the conversation is.

Daddy, that’s the memory of you I carry always, that we mustn’t raise our voices in other to communicate, I don’t know how you did it, but it’s a quality I admired and continue to admire about you.

It’s been 14 year you slept off, keep sleeping, and please, Sir, tell my mum that we are okay now.

Keep sleeping in the bosom of the Almighty. I love you then and continued to love you.

Yours,
Chinasa

Its 14 years today dad, I was the first to see yu breath your last and ever since then it's been fresh in my memory. Thanks for all yu impacted in us, it has taken us places & still does. We wish yu continuous joy and happiness in heaven and we will always LOVE YOU!! GBNF!!!

Letter to Daddy:
Good day Sir,
Just like yesterday and still fresh in our memory, its 11 years gone but yu are not forgotten.
I was with Victor that fateful morning yu passed away. Still waiting for yu to wake from coma and tell me what yu promised to tell me(daddy i am still waiting oo). But the Lord chose to take yu and even the heavens wept just as yu journeyed to the great beyond. I couldn't cry but took solace & comforted my younger ones having known yur last word to us came from 2 Timothy 4:7-8.
Daddy yu are a STAR and yu have continued to shine in US all up till this moment. Yu need to see how far and how big we have all grown. Yur legacy lives forever. I will forever Love yu. miss yu dearly.
Good night till we meet to part no more.
~ yur son
   MIKE❤

You were more than a father, you were my teacher, my coach, my dictionary, my hero, my friend, my mentor, my confidant, my Man Of God.... And the list is endless!
You're forever in our hearts Daddy! ❤
Till we see again, keep resting!
Yours,
~Okoro~