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“Politics must not be left in the hands of notorious people or the mediocre. We must bring our best into it and no one has a right to complain if one refuses to get into politics, and some other people ventured into it and make laws that will affect your generation yet unborn.”

— Onyeka Onwenu

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“I was targeted and abused for being an Igbo woman who came to give jobs to and elevate my people while sidelining them.”

“The example of her life was a teaching tool because she showed that she could stand as a woman on her own…be a contributing member of the community.”

“I probably would have been somewhere buying and selling like every other woman who is trying to survive. If I didn’t have education, it would still have been the same thing. I can buy and sell at all levels, considerably.”

“Small minds, narrow minds can’t comprehend a great spirit when they see it. When they insist in stereotyping you, even when the evidence is there, look at them carefully, they are lacking some sort of professionalism.”

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