Jesus de Greatest, a statue whose height is 28
feet, will be unveiled at St. Aloysius Catholic Church in the Abajah local
government area of Imo state, on January 1, 2016.
Obinna
Onuoha, graduate of York St. Johns University in the United Kingdom and the
Harvard Business School, and also the
founder of Premier Petroleum Limited funded and offered the statue to
the church. Onuoha is an indigene of Abajah
According
to a statement signed by Smatt Ozomena, Onuoha announced his intention to
execute the project on January 1, 2014, meaning that it would be unveiled
exactly two years after.
Jesus de
Greatest, which would be the fifth tallest statue in Africa, has a total weight
of 40 tons and is made of marble.
With 161
feet, African Renaissance Monument in Dakar, Senegal, is the tallest statue in
Africa after Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt with 66 feet, and Ramesses II, still
in Egypt, which has 30 feet, is the third.
Nelson
Mandela Union Building in South Africa has 28 feet and is the fourth tallest in
the continent. The world’s tallest statue of Jesus is Christ the King in
Świebodzin, western Poland, with a height of 172 feet.
See more
amazing photos of Jesus De Greatest after the cut
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