TO A NOBLEMAN DR CLIFF OJUKWU BY NCHEY ACHUKWU FAMILY.( IJEUDO NANKA) WHEN I GOT THE NEWS THAT CLIFF WAS CRITICALLY ILL, I PRAYED GOD TO HEAL HIM UNKNOWN THAT HE HAD ALREADY GONE TO MEET HIS MAKER. WHEN I EVENTUALLY HEARD HE WAS GONE, MY MIND TRAVELED BACK TO THE DAYS IN 1989 WHEN WE STAYED AT NO 8 DARTHINTON HOUSE, STOCKWEL , LONDON. OUR GLORIOUS YOUNG ADULT DAYS, FULL OF HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS. AS CLIFF CLOSES COMPANION THEN, HE ALWAYS LAMENT MISSING HIS NEWLY MARRIED WIFE CHINWE WHO WAS STILL IN NIGERIA BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONLY MARRIED MAN AMONG US.CLIFF LIKE OTHER STRUGGLING NIGERIANS DID ALL SORTS OF MENIAL JOBS TO SURVIVE WHILE WRITING HIS UK MEDICAL SPECIALIST EXAMS. I REMEMBER ONE OF THE DAYS AS I AND CLIFF WERE WORKING AS POTTERS IN PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPT OF KINGS COLLEGE HOSPITAL LONDON, A PATIENT HAD CRISIS, WHILE THE STUDENT PHYSIOTHERAPISTS WERE CALLING FOR EMERGENCY , CLIFF TOOK OVER AND HANDLED THE SITUATION BEFORE THE DOCTORS COULD COME. I HAD TO EDUCATE THOSE STUDENT PHYSIOS THAT CLIFF IS A QUALIFIED PRACTICING DOCTOR BACK HOME ONLY THAT SOMETHING HAD MADE THE CRAYFISH TO BEND. TO GOD BE THE GLORY NOT TO LONG, CLIFF RE ESTABLISHED AND RE INVIGORATED HIMSELF INTO HIS CHOSEN PROFESSION UNIVERSALLY. CLIFF WAS HUMBLE, SOFT SPOKEN BUT FIRM. VERY RELIABLE, FRIENDLY,SOCIAL, ACCOMMODATING AND JOVIAL. MY FRIEND THOUGH, YOU DIDNT LIVE LONG ENOUGH BUT YOU ACHIEVED SO MUCH, YOU ARE INDEED A BLESSINGS TO YOUR GENERATION. YOU HAVE DONE YOUR BIT. YOUR MAKER WANTS YOU BACK SO WE BOW TO SAY GOODBYE CLIFF! ADIEU OJUKWU!!