Philips ANYAKUDO,

many ofthe youth who are now in business after finishing from school are sponsored by Owelle Philip's generous fund for developmenl. • Some ofthe young men studying overseas are doing so through Owelle's Scholarship. Owelle was the Chairman ofUmueze Improvement Union. Lagos Branch for 8years. In that position, many ofhis town's boys who had no job in Lagos or wanted to go for higher studies, benefited from his Owelle Foundations for Development. lie was the Provost Igbo Summit and Assistant Secretary OrluSenatorial Constituency Association (OSCAR). Political Interest He isa political stalwart and wants locontest the governorship election for Imo State come 2007. Me is acommittee Roman Catholic and has got Chief Sam Onunaka Mbakwe as his role model and an ideal leader, lie is happily married. His advice lothe youths of Igboland is: "Hard work isa Prayer in action ". and tothe leaders, he says: "work on unity and love for one another, reach mk ka Ike other ethnic groups and correct the bad impression they have about Ndi-Igbo. He further counselled that the Igbo are special specie, we must not abandon our culture, wemust not allow the death ofour Igbo language, andwe must endeavour tohelp oneanother. We must recognise the