Bishop Michael Eneja is somebody I knew since 1971 when I was in Bigard Memorial Seminary, he was a lecturer there in Spirituality and he was my Spiritual “Director for five years. When I finished in Bigard, he was the one who ordained me a deacon in April 1978, ordained me a Priest on 22nd July 1978 and two weeks after my ordination, I became his personal secretary and later Diocesan secretary.

I worked with him for five good years. My experience about Bishop Eneja is that he is somebody who is deeply religious. Working with him, I noted that he likes respecting peoples freedom, when he gives you a responsibility to execute, he does not interfere, he guides you but will t interfere. He will give you every freedom to develop yourself, so it was something very pleasant for me working with Bishop Eneja.

Furthermore, in the entire life of Bishop Eneja, one can say that he is a full human being, he is emotionally balanced and in the area of religion, he is a good spiritual man, in fact he is a living saint so to say. He is very charitable with his time and money, he respects people, the aged, young people, men and women, he works with everybody and can cooperate with everybody. He has a very strong sense of justice but his charity is extraordinary.

My wish for him in his old age is that God will continue giving him strength of body and the spirit that he continues to be healthy in order to appreciate the good works he has done and to see the fruit of what he has done, grow and fructify, in this way I mean, that the people he has trained when he sees the grow and develop, and become useful both in the church and society, that the good Lord may give him time to appreciate that not that that becomes his reward forever but let him still have the strength of body and soul to continue to appreciate the works he has done as a good pastor and as a good shepherd of the people.

This is a very good work and quite fundamental. It is like putting down records of the life of His Lordship M.U. Eneja, his history, his biography and putting down in writing and in a very concrete sense some of his works for future generation to know about this particular good person who lived so that if it pleased the Lord anytime, the church can bring him to the altar as a Venerable, as a Blessed and as a Saint, and people can fall back to the work of this sort so that they will have a glimpse of the type of person he was and also to know something about his own motives and spirituality that will eventually help them to appreciate whom he was and from there like St. Paul says “be imitators of me as I am, imitator of Christ” some people will be able to imitate the spirituality of His Lordship Bishop Michael Ugwuja Eneja the emeritus Bishop of Enugu, imitate him and by imitating him they will move unto God not that he becomes the sole mode, for Jesus Christ is the sole model but we are human beings and somebody can play a very good model for you and that is what I think that when a work like this is recorded, it will be very informative.

Some of us who know him, lived with him and worked with him may have his ideas but when this ideas are not written, until a hundred years it will evaporate completely but this work will surely immortalize is presence on earth as it were and it becomes a memorial, a memento, something to help people remember him when we all must have passed on to the Lord.