Chief Joseph Ezeokafor and his son, Jowizaza
By Emeka Ugochukwu
The children of kidnapped Joseph Ezeokafor, the Anambra-born industrialist and the founder of the Jezco group who was abducted by kidnappers while on his knees, seeking the face of our God last week Tuesday at Ifite Awka, Blessing and Jowizaza are literally at daggers drawn.
NATIONAL WAVES gathered that all appears not to be well at his home front, as his first child and oldest daughter, Ezeokafor Blessing has taken to social media to call out her younger brother and Instagram celebrity, Eberechukwu Jowizaza, heaping the blame on what the patriarch is currently going through and the family business’s precarious financial condition to his online activities and the exaggeration he portrays to the public.
In a series of rants on her personal Facebook page, Blessing Ezeokafor, who is a Madonna-trained lawyer, made so many damaging allegations about her younger brother, she wrote
“My family is not as wealthy and rich as Jowizaza portrays online, as what he is living is a fake life, as the money he claims he has does not exist, and rather, audio money, in her words.
“With my brother’s fake life and the audio money that he projects online, the general public erroneously believes that her family is wealthy, which is not true, as Jowi’s lifestyle is exaggerated and not the true reality of things.
“It is because of my brother’s fake lifestyle, that a target was put on the back of their dad, as she primarily blames Jowizaza’s lifestyle for being responsible for the scrutiny and the unnecessary exposure that led to the dad kidnapping.
In her words, her dad is a quiet humble man whose only devotion and mission is to serve God, as he does not want or need the unnecessary social media exposure brought on him by the son’s lavish online lifestyle.
Blessing also alleged that her brother ran the dad’s business down financially through his reckless lifestyle, and because of that, Jezco is facing bankruptcy and owing banks.
She alleged that the Jezco group owes First City MonumentalBank (FCMB) a N40 billion loan which is yet to be paid back as of today, and another bank account of the Jezco business is currently frozen because of the unpaid loan, and it is primarily because of the way Jowizaza ran the business before he was removed as a director of the company by their dad, who is currently in the den of kidnappers.
She further alleged that to save the Jezco group from financial ruin and liquidation, Jowiza, her brother, was removed as a director of the company and then placed on a monthly salary of one million naira by their dad.
She did not stop there; she made further allegations that her brother can’t boast of N100 million in liquidity as of today while wondering the wisdom in accepting to pay N700 million ransom before the kidnappers increased the ransom to N1.5 billion in order to release their father.
Where will her brother get the money from?
Is it from his monthly one million naira monthly allowance that he received from the company? She asked
She however begged the kidnappers to release her dad because he did nothing wrong to be kidnapped while putting the blame of their patriarchal ordeal on her brother for living a fake life on Instagram and projecting an exaggerated wealth that does not exist.
