Onoghemuovwe, who later joined the Nigeria Railway Corporation in Lagos in 1956, will clock 100 years on April 15.
“I married another woman a few years later, in 1965, and we had our first child, a boy. I named him Godgift. Surprisingly, the woman called for divorce soon afterward, claiming that I was not rich enough,” he stated. To make ends meet, the young Michael engaged himself in menial jobs, carrying loads for market women in Warri and its environs.
Onoghemuovwe became so popular as a rubber tapper that he was taken to different locations in Warri metropolis, including an Itsekiri dominated area called Kpemushale, where he was introduced to the king by some Ogoni rubber produce traders from Rivers State. From Kpemushale, he moved to Sapele and other locations in the then Western Region rendering his service to rubber merchants.
“A day was already fixed for the sacrifices, but the daughter of the village head, Tiro, was not comfortable with the arrangement. She started crying. To save Isaac and I, Tiro decided to leak the secret to us, but with a warning that it might take the Grace of God for us to escape it. “After four years at Ogodogbo, I moved to Onipanu to tap rubber, and later to Anthony Village, in 1956. It was at Anthony Village that I joined Bobby Benson as an apprentice mechanic. But I stopped the work soon after due to hunger,” he stated.
Pa Onoghemuovwe, who has four graduates among his children, is now the Okarorho in Delta State. His people want him to return home.Last year, Pa Onoghemuovwe was part of UPU delegation to the palace of the Oba of Ikorodu, His Royal Majesty, Oba Kabiru Adewale Sotobi.
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