The saying that a gold fish has no hiding place certainly rings true for her Chief Ifeanyi Julius Anuma (Eze Akuchukwu 1 of Ihioma), popularly called Oko-Wallet.

The widely acclaimed philanthropist has deployed his God-given wealth to better the lot of humanity, especially his community. He recently initiated a wealth redistribution and empowerment programme, tagged: “100 millionaires for the youth and own a business programme for the women.”

Daily Sun gathered that the goal of the laudable initiative is to raise 100 millionaires in Ihioma community in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State.

Already, no fewer than 35 young men from the community have been given N1million each by the philanthropist to start businesses while those with skills and other enterprises used the money to beef them up. The next batch of beneficiaries would be handed their millions in December.

Under the same scheme, Anuma, who is the Chairman/CEO, Suite Life Pharmaceutical Nigeria Limited, has lifted over 20 indigent widows from the area with N500,000 each for the resuscitation of their businesses.

Prior to this period, it was also gathered that he was there for his community, Ihioma and Orlu LGA as a whole during the global pandemic of COVID-19. He had distributed trailer loads of rice, noddles, mackerel in tomato sauce and tomatoes, to the people of the of the local government area.

It was in recognition of Anuma’s uncommon benevolence that a reputable non-profit organisation, Oma Amaka Global Movement, which was instituted to reward excellence in Ihioma, rolled out the drums on August 4 to celebrate the great philanthropist.

Coordinator of Oma Amaka Global Movement, Ichie Udoka Okolie, described him as “an outstanding personality, a great philanthropist of our time and the grand ambassador of empowerment,” akin to the Biblical St. Augustine.

Okolie noted that the award recipient had also invested substantially in community infrastructural development within and outside Ihioma. He listed the installation of solar-powered boreholes at Ikpa, Eziorie and Umuna as well as the renovation of community halls, solar streetlight and road maintenance projects, as some of Anuma’s support to the people.

He was enthused that Oko-Wallet did not allow the economic crunch in Nigeria to dissuade him from touching people’s lives positively.