Actress celebrates late son's birthday with motherless babies
The 15-year-old who did not live to see his 16th birthday, would visit motherless babies home with his mother and she was bent on keeping up the tradition.
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Marking her late son's posthumous birthday, the veteran act revealed that she was celebrating the day as they used to.
Naij reports that Eucharia kept her words and spent the day visiting with them.
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She said, “I have not removed my mourning clothes, neither have I opened my hair since the death of my son. I have only been wearing white since his demise and the reason I have maintained this is because my son was a good boy to me; but he was mistakenly killed by the doctor. My son was not supposed to die. He was a very wonderful child.
"I decided to honour him by marking his 16th birthday posthumously the way we normally do. During our birthdays, we usually visited the motherless babies and show them love by donating some clothes and food to them. This year would not be any different from the previous ones we have celebrated.
"I am going to do it the way my son and I had always done it and I would give out some of his personal effects. Normally, when someone dies, you do not touch their things for about a year. For instance, if a man’s wife dies he is not expected to touch her things or dispose of them till after a year. Initially, I decided to do the same thing but I later changed my mind and that is why I donated some of his things to a government-owned motherless babies’ home and also to the boys at the Special Correctional Centre for the Boys. I am doing this because I am a humanitarian and to let the motherless babies know that we love them.”
The loss of a child
The actress lost her 15-year-old son to sickle cell anaemia. Raymond, who she had with her ex-husband, Charles Ekwu, in 2002, has been living with sickle cell anaemia from birth.
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Pulse reached out to the actress who exclusively revealed to us that she was in the hospital at the time "sorting out things" relating to her son's death.
Linda Ikeji also reported at the time that he died from complications associated with the disease on Monday, August 21, 2017. Her last post on Facebook sees her giving thanks to God for safe journey on August 17, 2017.
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Handling a crippling loss
Evangelist Eucharia Anunobi paid tributes to her son, Raymond Ekwe who died on August 2017, pouring out her heart to her late son.
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"You were the best gift God gave to me, I love you with all my heart, spirit and soul" she said on Broadway Africa TV.
"Thank you for making the world call me mother, thank you for making people know about Jesus, thank you. God bless you. I know you are gone am totally broken but I rejoice because you loved Jesus with all your body and soul" further said Eucharia Anunobi.
Eucharia Anunobi lamented about how she misses her late son whose absence has made her house now silent.
She disclosed this in a chat with Inside Nollywood adding that she has lost the joy of doing a couple of things.
In December 2017, 3 months after mourning her son, Eucharia Anunobi took to her Instagram page where she penned down a heartfelt message. In the lengthy emotional message, the actress spoke about the very close relationship she shared with him.
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The grieving mother also had the advice to give to everyone and to parents in particular. "The best gift to give to your children is to tell them all about Jesus", she concluded.
Life goes on
Raymond Ekwu was buried on Tuesday, September 5, 2017, and had in attendance a number of Nollywood stars like Ini Edo, Rita Dominic, Monalisa Chinda, Lilian Bach and veteran movie producer, Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen.
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Anunobi is currently an associate pastor of the Fresh Oil Ministry International Church, in Egbeda Lagos. She was ordained as an evangelist as well as an apostle and has ministered in the United States of America and some West African countries.
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Eucharia came into limelight for her role in the movie series "Glamour Girls" in 1994 and has gone on to star in over 90 movies including "Abuja Connection" and "Letters to a Stranger".
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