How Joseph Ezeokafor
OpenLife News reports that billionaire businessman and founder of Jezco Oil and Jezco Group, Sir Joseph Ezeokafor, has reportedly been abducted in Awka, Anambra State, after allegedly going alone to a mountain for overnight prayers.
Ezeokafor, who is the father of Nigerian social media personality Jowizaza, was reportedly kidnapped last week at Ifite Awka.
The alleged abduction was disclosed in a Facebook post on Sunday by a lawyer, Chukwudi Iwuchukwu, who claimed that the businessman had gone to the mountain without his security aides and police personnel who usually accompanied him.
According to Iwuchukwu, unidentified gunmen allegedly seized Ezeokafor while he was praying and took him to an undisclosed location.
“Sir Joseph Ezeokafor, a Nigerian billionaire businessman, the founder of Jezco Oil and the Jezco Group, who is also the father of Nigerian Instagram celebrity Jowizaza, was reportedly kidnapped last week from a bush in Awka, in Anambra State,” he wrote.
Iwuchukwu alleged that Ezeokafor had gone alone to “pray and seek the face of God” without his security details and police escorts, despite usually moving with them.
He further claimed that the businessman was abducted during the prayer session and taken to an unknown destination.
The reported incident has thrown Ekwulobia, Ezeokafor’s hometown, into anxiety, with residents reportedly mourning his disappearance.
Iwuchukwu described Ezeokafor as the community’s wealthiest man and said the reported abduction had disrupted preparations for its annual New Yam Festival.
According to him, the community postponed the festival, which he described as an unusual decision, because of the circumstances surrounding the businessman’s reported abduction.
“The community where he comes from, Ekwulobia, has been thrown into confusion and mourning ever since the news of the abduction broke in the community,” he said.
However, the circumstances surrounding Ezeokafor’s reported abduction, his current whereabouts and the identity of those allegedly responsible remain unclear.
Family Speaks, Gives Vivid Details
The family of Anambra-born industrialist and billionaire businessman, Sir Joseph Ezeokafor has come out to throw more light on the abduction of their patriarch and father, who is currently spending his 7th night in the hands of the kidnappers who kidnapped him last week, Tuesday.
1) He was kidnapped from a remote Catholic prayer ground, located at Ifite, Awka, Anambra State, by dare armed gunmen who stormed the prayer ground at exactly 2:00 am Tuesday last week.
2) He was the financier who financed the construction of the prayer house and the access roads that lead to the prayer ground as part of his contribution to the Catholic church that he loves so much.
3) Sir Joseph Ezeokafor, even though he is a wealthy man in dollars and naira, is a humble, devout and pious man who loves God so much, and so every month, he visits the Catholic prayer ground without his security details attached to him because he believes so much in his heart that the holy prayer ground should not be littered with security details.
4) Last Tuesday was not his first time visiting the prayer ground; he visits every month, quietly and without fanfare, to communicate with his God, the God that changed his life as an orphan, because that is the only way he understands that it should be done.
5) Contrary to the rumours spreading out there, he has not been released, and the kidnappers have not even established contact with the family who are sick and worried about the health of their patriarch, who is without his high blood pressure medication.
6) Sir Joseph Ezeokafor is the founder and the CEO of Jezco Oil, an integrated energy business that is involved in the following businesses:
Jezco filling station, a downstream business involved in the business of selling fuel and diesel with a presence all over the country
Jezco lubricant, his engine oil brand which is very popular in the east
And then Jezco trading, his trading arm that is into the importation of base oil, a very important commodity and raw material needed for the production of engine oil which they sell to popular lubricant manufacturers in the country.
He is also the father of Jowizaza, a popular Instagram celebrity.
7) A very kind and good man was kidnapped while he was on his knees, seeking the face of the giver of life, the almighty God.
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