Jesus de Greatest, a statue whose height is 28 feet, will be unveiled at St. Aloysius Catholic Church in the Abajah local government area of Imo state, on January 1, 2016. Obinna Onuoha, founder of Premier Petroleum Limited, funded and offered the statue to the church. According to a statement signed by Smatt Ozomena, Onuoha announced his intention to execute the project on January 1, 2014, meaning that it would be unveiled exactly two years after. Jesus de Greatest, which would be the fifth tallest statue in Africa, has a total weight of 40 tons and is made of marble. With 161 feet, African Renaissance Monument in Dakar, Senegal, is the tallest statue in Africa after Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt with 66 feet, and Ramesses II, still in Egypt, which has 30 feet, is the third. Nelson Mandela Union Building in South Africa has 28 feet and is the fourth tallest in the continent. The world’s tallest statue of Jesus is Christ the King in Świebodzin, western Poland, with a height of 172 feet. A graduate of York St. Johns University in the United Kingdom and the Harvard Business School, Onuoha is an indigene of Abajah. He is a devout Catholic and his marriage to Nkeiru is blessed with four children.
https://www.thecable.ng/imo-to-unveil-tallest-statue-of-jesus-in-africa

Nna c accomplishment, hope this will translate to cash for unpaid civil servants!

I like the artistic skills employed. However, our Jesus died at AGE 33 YEARS I don't get why pictures and images make him look like methuselah or Moses at old age

So this is Jesus christ sey.. If Jesus is to come back this year most of u will deny him.. Beware that statue can't last long Nigeria is not peaceful for this kind of stuff.. I no go gree go that environment self

When people haven't been paid to eat. Abagworo, sometimes I wonder about you.

Please why is rochas obsessed with statues? What's with all the statues in Imo state Of what significance is it?

When this govt tenure pass,the next govt go probe the costs.you go dey say the statue cost 1.5 billion naira

African mentality

God bless u bro....glory to Jesus
to the fools above me, continue perishing in ur stupidity..
don't know what concerns workers salary with an individual building statue for God.

chiscodedon:
God bless u bro....glory to Jesus
to the fools above me, continue perishing in ur stupidity..
don't know what concerns workers salary with an individual building statue for God.

I'm glad Rochas gave you a statue to worship. Maybe the civil servants can sacrifice a lamb under it.

Ofodirinwa:
When people haven't been paid to eat. Abagworo, sometimes I wonder about you.

Who and who has not been paid? The lies against Imo State is much. Imo workers have even been paid December salaries and given 3 weeks holiday. Government had issues with legal and health workers who rejected their salaries deliberately and not because they were not paid.

The statue was donated by an Imo billionaire Obinna Onuoha to his village Church.

Shameless, colonised, thoughtless dunderheads still promoting images of a fake white Jesus despite the abundance of evidence that if this person existed, he must have been a black/brown man. Stup.id, ignorant, brainless goats. Fck you and your stup.id slave mentality statue. Bastards.

Rossikk:
Shameless, colonised, thoughtless dunderheads still promoting images of a fake white Jesus despite the abundance of evidence that if this person existed, he must have been a black/brown man. Stup.id, ignorant, brainless goats. Fck you and your stup.id slave mentality statue. Bastards.

But this is a mere statue and shouldn't be interpreted as slavery. Churches worldwide have these statues of Jesus and Mary. Christianity in itself is a European or Western religion or are you boko?

Ofodirinwa:


I'm glad Rochas gave you a statue to worship. Maybe the civil servants can sacrifice a lamb under it.

if only you could read would have asked you if there's anywhere Rochas name was mentioned in the above article
but sorry, not ur fault

Amastermovic:
So this is Jesus christ sey.. If Jesus is to come back this year most of u will deny him.. Beware that statue can't last long Nigeria is not peaceful for this kind of stuff.. I no go gree go that environment self

foolish ofe who would destroy the statue?

i hope Jesus helps him pay salaries...btw..what's it with politicians and religion..it will be a perfect research project

Abagworo:


But this is a mere statue and shouldn't be interpreted as slavery. Churches worldwide have these statues of Jesus and Mary. Christianity in itself is a European or Western religion or are you boko?

You are the very definition of dumb and stupi.d. Even in this internet age when research is free as the air we breathe, you cannot use your brain to decide for yourself the facts about your religion. "Churches worldwide" depict a white caucasian as Jesus, so you will do so as well. What was the point of your going to school? Total waste of money. Dunce.

Rochas turning Imo state people to idol worshipers

Abagworo:


But this is a mere statue and shouldn't be interpreted as slavery. Churches worldwide have these statues of Jesus and Mary. Christianity in itself is a European or Western religion or are you boko?

if it was the northerners that build a very big mosque now,mumu like you go don they whine up and down about them being fanatics

ANAMBRA11:
foolish ofe who would destroy the statue?

fool!sh okoro,,,you flat head should not come here to whine if other people decide to build the biggest mosque in Nigeria

Rossikk:
You are the very definition of dumb and stupi.d. Even in this internet age when research is free as the air we breathe, you cannot use your brain to decide for yourself the facts about your religion. "Churches worldwide" depict a white caucasian as Jesus, so you will do so as well. What was the point of your going to school? Total waste of money. Dunce.

You are the dumb one. Show me a Catholic Church with black Jesus. The truth remains that Christianity is a white religion and is not African.

Omololu007:
if it was the northerners that build a very big mosque now,mumu like you go don they whine up and down about them being fanatics

If you knew me well you would have known I believe more in African religion than white, jewish and arabic ones. This news is about a record breaking statue.

Rossikk:
You are the very definition of dumb and stupi.d. Even in this internet age when research is free as the air we breathe, you cannot use your brain to decide for yourself the facts about your religion. "Churches worldwide" depict a white caucasian as Jesus, so you will do so as well. What was the point of your going to school? Total waste of money. Dunce.

Mynd44, see this guy cursing the OP just because the statue of Jesus is being made, if I descend on him now you send me to prison again..

Omololu007:
fool!sh okoro,,,you flat head should not come here to whine if other people decide to build the biggest mosque in Nigeria

scratched faced animal wetin consign igbo man with knacking face for ground 5 times a day?

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ANAMBRA11:
scratched faced animal wetin consign igbo man with knacking face for ground 5 times a day?

you are a stup!d fool if you think no okoro knack his head for ground 5 times a day..

Omololu007:
you are a stup!d fool if you think no okoro knack his head for ground 5 times a day..

yes atleast there re 1s who only do it to get paid not like u animals and ur slave masters dat do it on futility bases

Honestly, a statue of Amadioha would have made a much better attraction than that of a Jewish carpenter in the heart of Africa.

ANAMBRA11:
yes atleast there re 1s who only do it to get paid not like u animals and ur slave masters dat do it on futility bases

olofo omo Igbo,,have you forgotten how ibos voted massively fot tofa a northerner instead of abiola a southerner...yardua defeated ojuiku a northerner in the south east..yeebos are aboki slave

Omololu007:
olofo omo Igbo,,have you forgotten how ibos voted massively fot tofa a northerner instead of abiola a southerner...yardua defeated ojuiku a northerner in the south east..yeebos are aboki slave

scratched faced Animal why u trying to change topic,islam still remains alien to the southeast go fck^ ur mama

ANAMBRA11:
scratched faced Animal why u trying to change topic,islam still remains alien to the southeast go fck^ ur mama

I don't think you know your mum is my b!tch,she prefer the doggy style,you can ask your dad at home pig...to. Hell with islam,if you like curse allah and muhammed swine,I don't give a dam...son of a b!tch

Pls there is no local government in IMO called Abajar whatever this post is a lie