Ide Secondary School Enugwu-Ukwu Alumni Association Inaugurated

Building legacies, sustaining the laudable courses of Schools, rekindling and rebuilding friendships are some of the major reasons alumni associations are convened.

This was evident at the inauguration of the Girls Secondary School, Enugwu-Ukwu and now, Ideh Secondary School Alumni Association.

The ceremony also served as an avenue to raised funds for their first project of building a multipurpose skill acquisition centre.

The mood at the venue of the reunion and inauguration was overwhelming as the old students, who came with their families, danced, shared past memories and exchanged banters.

While capturing themselves in selfies to document this historic moment, they engaged in those games they participated in while in School and sang a popular song that their then Principal, between 1979 and 1989, Late Mr. Emmanuel Nwonwu-Ozumba was known for.

Speaking on the primary goals of the association, the Coordinator of Ideh Secondary School Alumni Association, Mrs. Ifeoma Anaetoh and the Initiator of the association, Iyom Priscilla Okolocha said their mission is to support, encourage, uplift each other and support government in making their Alma mater a school to be proud of.

The Principal of Ideh Secondary School Enugwu-Ukwu, Mrs. Amaka Ubaka while enumerating the many laurels won by the school in recent times, praised the old girls for setting up the alumni association and their support so far, urging them not to relent in taking care of other needs still facing the school.

The Keynote Speaker and Chairman on the occasion, Professor Walter Nwafia, who is the Provost, College of Medicine, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, motivated the old students to use their current positions in the society to influence the development of their school.

Some of the alumni of the School who spoke to the ABS including the award winning ABS presenter, Ijeoma Uche, the Chairlady of the planning Committee, Chika Oyekwe and the Deputy Prefect of the School in the 1992/1993 academic session, Dr Sandra Ekwunife said the event has given them the opportunity to come back together after years of leaving the school, and promised to use their resources to seeing that current students of the school do not continue to pass through the challenges they encountered during their own time.