Coscharis confirms death of founder’s wife, Charity, at 63

Coscharis Group has confirmed the death of Charity Maduka, its vice president and wife of the president of the group, Cosmas Maduka.

A statement obtained via email on Monday from Abiona Babarinde,

General Manager, Marketing and Corporate Communications of the group titled ‘Coscharis Group founder, Cosmas Maduka, loses wife’ said she died in her family home in Nnewi, Anambra State, Saturday evening at the age of 63.

The statement read in part, “With gratitude to the Almighty God and total submission to His will, the board and the entire Executive team of Coscharis Group hereby announce the sudden death of our Vice – President, Mrs Charity Maduka.

“Further details will be announced by the family at a later time.”

A family source also said the Coscharis VP had died after suffering a stroke.

Cosmas and Charity got married in 1977 and have three sons; Cosmas Jr., Jonathan, Peter and a daughter, Charity Ngozi.

Maduka had said at different forums that his spouse played a major role in his success in life and business, stressing that his wife married him when he had nothing.

He was quoted one occasion as saying, “When I approached her, my pocket was empty but my faith was full, so, many times, it’s not the size of your pocket but she could see ahead.

“Actually, her parents thought she was insane and that made her uncle shot me three times. He said he would kill me because her parents were in the upper class in our village. It’s just like an area boy going to Adenuga’s house.”

 

He said because of his wife’s belief in him, he made her the vice president of his company.

“She can sign a cheque of N10 billion. It is only her who can sign the cheque alone in the whole of the company and myself. Her credit card has no limit but it didn’t happen overnight,” he said.