BEVERLY HILLS, April 04, (THEWILL) – The Head, Ford Foundation, West Africa, Innocent Chukwuma, is dead.
He died late Saturday evening.
THEWILL learnt he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, an aggressive cancer of the blood.
A frontline rights advocate and executive director of the Media Rights Agenda, Chukwuma, Edetaen Ojo, who confirmed the sad development, wrote “With profound shock and sadness, I regret to inform you that Innocent Chukwuma passed away a few hours ago, in the evening of April 3. May his soul rest in peace.”
Mr. Chukwuma, 55, gained prominence, as a student union activist at the University of Nigeria, where he read religious studies, in the early eighties.
Upon graduation, he joined a cluster of young activists who came to bloom at the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), Nigeria’s first human rights organisation led for most of the nineties by Olisa Agbakoba.
Chukwuma, was a father of three daughters.
He was called to the Bar in 2020.
