Final Burial Ceremony of Chief Henry.O. Aiyewumi. The Obamuse of Owe-Land

BIOGRAPHY

High Cheif, Prince Henry. O. AiyewumiThe Obamuse of Owe-Land1961 – 2022, Aged 61 years

Henry Oluwole Aiyewumi, Comptroller  of Immigration (RTD) was born in Kabba, 14th February, 1961. After his primary school Education, he proceeded to the prestigious St. Barnabas Secondary School Kabba where he graduated in 1979. He had a stint with the Nigerian Television Authority as a staff. Thereafter, his knack for education took him to Federal College of Eduacation where he obtained his National Certificate for Education after his mandatory National Youth Service programme. He wanted a job as expected and about the time the Nigerian Immigration Service was recruiting but by God’s intervention  and instrumentality of one Mr. Chembams sn assistant commissioner of police and his uncle Mr Stephen Aiyewumi who was the the commissioner of police in charge of ADM at Kam Salem House Obalende. He was able to gain employment into the Nigerian Immigration Service in 1985

He was first posted to Seme Border. After his baptismal experience at Seme, he served in different capacities at different cammands but one of the most significant of them was serving in Sokoto Command where he met his lovely wife Amina. Also, he went ahead to obtain a bachelors degree in Business Administration and where he met his boss;Mr Joseph Chukwurah Ude who was then Comptroller Sokoto Command.

When his boss was posted as Comptroller Muritala Mohammed Airport, he flowed him as a loyal officer after which they were both posted back to Abuja. As providence will have it, Mr Ude was appointed the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service and naturally appointed his very loyal officer Henry as his special assitant, a position he used to touch many lives. After the tenure of his boss, Henry whike serving in Niger Staye Command, was appointed the Passport Control Officer (PCO) of Cross Rivers State. He was eventually posted to zone F Ibadan which was his last serving command before his retirement after a glorious 35 years service to the nation as a Comptroller of Immigration and being the first Comptroller of Immigration to have emerged from Kabba