The statute was unveiled yesterday in Imo state village of Abajah. The Statute is 8.53 metre (28 foot) tall.The statute is termed “Jesu...
The Statute is 8.53 metre (28 foot) tall.The statute is termed “Jesus de Greatest” and was commissioned in 2013. It was built by a Chinese company and carved in white marble.
The statute Standing barefoot with outstretched arms weighing 40 ton towers over St. Aloysius Catholic Church
in the village.
More than 100 priests and hundreds of Catholic worshippers attended the statue’s official unveiling.
It was commissioned by Obinna Onuoha a local businessman who hired a Chinese company to carve it and placed it in the grounds of a 2000-capacity church that he built in 2012.
