Members of Owerri West Journalists, Association ,OJA,recently paid a courtesy visit to one of her illustrious sons, Hon Rogers Augustine Nwoke.
Rogers is one of the household names in Emeabiam community and Owerri west local government area as a whole.
He started his early life after his secondary school at Eziobodo as a teacher. He taught at the Modern School of Commerce, etc and later joined Concorde Hotel Owerri as a waiter.He got admission to study Accountancy at the prestigious University of Nigeria Nsukka.
As a scholar Rogers was working and schooling just to make his ends meet.He was lucky to identify with Nike Lake Resort at Enugu. Recall that it was the same company that also managed Concorde hotel Owerri as at that time.So it worked out for Rogers.
He later graduated excellently from the university and proceeded for his NYSC, where he served and later secured job in the banking sector.In the banking sector Rogers specialized in the Micro Finance sector, where he made a wonderful in road.
Rogers founded the fast growing Oche Finance Bank, that is located at Ihiagwa and Owerri,Imo state capital.
His initial dream of the Micro finance bank was to make it a community project in Owerri west but he later discovered that funding brought it a little backward hence, he took it up and provided all the take off finances as required by CBN, today the finance bank has given loans to over 11,000 people in Owerri west and beyond.
As someone who grew in the village, he has been home hungry but the level of infrastructural decay and negligence in Owerri west has given him sleepless nights.
Hon Nwoke said that he is interested in the council chairmanships of Owerri west, in other words that he is strongly offering himself for service as the next elected chairman of the council.He lamented that Owerri west doesn’t have roads,no good school buildings, no functional health centres , etc.we need to fix out roads if we can join Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha.
Hon Rogers therefore appealed to the people of Owerri west LGA to vote for him in the forth coming local election.He promised to take Owerri west to the promised land.