Rich Man Who Cries for the Poor

Henry Akubuiro

The most important thing a man without shelter needs isn’t moral support. It cannot put a roof above the head of a bedraggled vagabond. He needs shelter and comfort more than anything else.

The business mogul, Arthur Eze, has taken it upon himself to be the comforter to the needy, giving hope to the hopeless, and never making a show of it.

But the bounden duty of Tony Adibe, the Southeast Bureau Chief of Daily Trust Newspaper, tells him otherwise: he has to blow another man’s trumpet. The echoes of a typical vuvuzela never last long, but those of panegyrics reverberate here and there, even outliving a Methuselah. Adibe’s Rich Man Who Cries for the Poor is a poetic thanksgiving to a man whose generosity has become proverbial
over the years.

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The foreword, written by Senator Victor Umeh, representing Anambra Central Senatorial Zone, offers a whiff of what Eze…