The Sun Finally Set's......
(A tribute By Malik Shabbazz Abdulmalik to His Father Late Isaac Percy Ododozie-Awuzie)
The sun finally set, perhaps prematurely for Isaac Percy Obodozie-Awuzie…
One of Dennis Awuzie”s most colorful and flamboyant sons. Percy, noted for his engineering sagacity, intellectual elasticity and bombastic German phraseology like all mortals bowed to the cold hands of death months after his 70th birthday. Like the engaging person he was, living up to the Shakespearean aphorism,” when beggars die there are no comets seen, but heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes” …A prince he was…
The death of Percy Isaac Obodozie-Awuzie is symptomatic of the growing dearth of principle and courage in the family. Like him or hate him, the former IBM Germany technical engineer, MD of MaPecy Engineering Company was an eloquent speaker with engineering tenacity, and most robust predisposition for constructive humanitarian engagement and dialogue. As an Engineer he was a success story, ranked amongst the finest breed of engineering. He struggled tenaciously to empricise his absorbed academic electrical philosophies.Therefore; he was ready to suffer fools gladly before hawks in the engineering world.
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Already, true to his looming influence and contributions while alive, the late Engineer’s death albeit controversial, is eliciting diverse reactions from across the land and off the shore.However, one fact remains eternal and unvarnished in the unfolding scenario-Percy did not die unsung and unmourned.But none of his tormentors (Ill-health) will boastfully claim they will be larger in death and mourned like he is. The concern and interest generated by his death is a measure of his influence and solid humanitarian imprints while traversing the terrestrial plane. Certainly, he will be smiling with celestial bodies now, knowing that his efforts were not in vain, after all…
Once he stepped into a place, most people on impulse rose from their seats, chanting, Percy intoto! Percy Intoto! Percy with a rare charisma, smiles back confidently, acknowledging cheers from his peers. He was in no doubt-well loved and highly respected by his peers. More so, his arresting intellectual bombastic effusions further sinewed his charisma. Obviously, Percy earned his respect. A father of five loving children, an engineer of repute, accomplished academic, he was truly a rare gem and a qualitative engineer.
He was an engineer, a friend and a brother and father. But at 03:30p.m, August 24, Isaac Chukwunyelueze Percy Obodozie-Awuzie like every mortal died.
At 70, Percy had become a colossus of sorts even the mention of his name triggered off different emotions among those who had close contact with him and those who never set their eyes on him.Blunt, arrogant, sarcastic, caustic, charismatic, humorous, brash.Those were some of the ways he was described because he meant different things to different people. Born to run, Percy once confessed that running was his second nature.
Oliver Wendell Hormes, an American Physician and writer, said, “To live is to function, that is all there is to in living”. Percy functioned till his death, and death is the irreversible loss of function.
What could be the drive that brought Percy so far? His background, he once admitted”my parental background is an informed background, socially, culturally, educationally”.
He had Four Brothers, Joseph, Solomon, Peter, Patrick and five sisters, Maria, Cecilia, Philomena, Julianna, Patricia and Celestine.
While at college, Percy was stubborn alongside the late Rt.Hon.Dr.Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo.He was known for his radical activities.
Interestingly, Percy was a man of great passion.”I love my mother, father, wife and children. If anyone tries to mess up with them, in the course of saving them, I will be ready to die” he once said. And so He did… Percy died because he did not want to suffer his children who were his treasures on this good old earth.
Certain dates were important to Percy. The Independence Day for example was always on his mind not to mention of his children’s birth dates, nieces and nephews alike. Perhaps another day that would have been very close to his heart is the day he would have walked on his feet again, a hale and hearty man of 70.But that day would never be because the man died.
