Nigeria’s Professor Ogechukwu Shortlisted For Canadian Mahatma Gandhi Award

A Nigerian Professor, Nwaocha Ogechukwu has been shortlisted for the Canadian Mahatma Gandi Award.

Okechukwu is the leading pioneer for the abolition of caste systems in South eastern Nigeria.

He covers the entire Igbo land as a United Nations International Peace Advocate,

Ambassador of Peace from Bureau for Peace and Conflict Resolution (Government of Imo State) and a nominee of 2022 Nobel peace prize.

Ogechukwu  promotes peaceful coexistence, peaceful co-habitation of Igbo families, advocates Human Right Development, Promotes Human Development via social equity and human equality, and the total unity of Igbo communities for proper integration for nation’s peace building.

He has also published many peered reviewed Academic works on international Journals to that effect, and as a result, became the first scholar to develop three phase model , as a theory, for Abolition of caste system in Africa which thousands of Traditional Rulers and rural Communities used for total Abolition of ” the socio-cultural prejudice that has trado- Religious root in Igbo culture.”

The letter of his nomination, routed through Chief Ambassador Ohagwa Peter, Deputy Country Representative, ( UN POLAC, Nigeria) reads:

“I am writing to you on behalf of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre of Canada (MGCC). I acknowledge and appreciate very much your nomination of Professor Nwaocha Ogechukwu for an award by the MGCC. Like many other organizations, MGCC has been dormant for the past two years because of the covid pandemic and will be celebrating

the Mahatma Gandhi Day this year on Monday, October 17, 2022.

“The MGCC has decided that this year’s Community Development Award will be

conferred on Professor Nwaocha Ogechukwu for his unique contribution to the abolition

of the caste system in Southeastern Nigeria. The Award will be presented at the Mahatma Gandhi Day Dinner to be held on Monday, October 17, 2022, at the Convention Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

“Please send us the contact address (including e mail) of Professor Nwaocha Ogechukwu, so that we can contact him with this information.

“As we do not have any provision for a contribution toward travel cost of the recipient,we are considering the possibility of inviting His Excellency High Commissioner Adeyinka Asekun of Nigeria to Canada, to participate in our event and accept the Award on behalf of Professor Nwaocha Ogechukwu. I hope this arrangement would be acceptable. I

would greatly appreciate hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

“Thanking you and with my best wishes,

Sincerely,

“Dr. K. Dakshinamurti, O.M.

President, Mahatma Gandhi Centre of Canada

Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Senior Advisor, St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre, Winnipeg”