The business of funeral services is not meant for lily-livered men, how much more when a woman, said to be weaker vessel, ventures into the male-dominated business.
Such a woman can only be described as a woman with a lion’s heart or a woman in a man’s body.
Such is the story of Mrs. Jovita Oraneli, an ambulance driver, who is into funeral services.
Queen Anigbogu reports that Mrs. Oraneli, from Osumenyi, Nnewi South Council Area, is the owner of Jovitex Funeral Services, Awka.
She began her sojourn into the business of undertaking in 2014, after her National Youth Service Corps, NYSC.
She learnt the trade under the tutelage of one of her elder brothers, Mr. Sylvanus Ofodum, for two years before establishing her own.
Speaking on what led her into the business, Mrs. Oraneli, who revealed that right from her childhood days, that she has always loved to do what is uncommon, added that having seven elder brothers caused her to develop desires towards things usually done by men.
While speaking on one of the challenges she faces in the business, Mrs. Oraneli, said that some of her clients, whose deceased loved ones are titled men, do not allow her to drive the corpses as they insist that she must get a male driver to do so.
For her elder brother and tutor, Mr. Ofodum, when his sister approached him for tutelage, he encouraged her knowing that she has the capabilities to venture into such business and flourish.
In their separate comments, a laundry woman, Mrs. Chioma Soji and a publisher, Mr. Chinedu Okeke, said women can engage in any legitimate business, affirming that the funeral service business is not for the faint-hearted.
Whatever legitimate business one is doing is worth putting all interest and dedication as long as it puts food on one’s table, simply put, no job or business should be regarded as men’s job.
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