All roads led to Ontario, Canada, when Chief (Dr) Leemon Ikpea, the Executive Chairman of Lee Engineering & Company Ltd, was honoured with the “award for excellence and recognition of service to humanity.”
With an avowed devotion to hard work, honesty, and integrity, the billionaire Ikpea is a testament to dedication and selflessness. For those whose paths have crossed his, the conclusion is the same: few rich individuals are as benevolent as he is.
The billionaire oil and gas mogul was rewarded for his magnanimous philanthropic acts over the years by JEN Canada on April 12. The group specifically singled out his Agbonjagwe Leemon Ikpea Foundation (ALIF), felicitating with him for his “excellent leadership and veritable milestone achievements in the areas of employment of youth, widows, and indigent rural women.”
The humble and quiet billionaire has helped over 100 children, most of them without parents, to become graduates.
“The effects of your contributions and support to infrastructural development in rural communities in Nigeria’s South-South region have reverberated across the nation and indeed the international community and deserves the recognition that this award provides,” said JEN Canada.
The award is an endorsement of Ikpea’s strategic implementation of ALIF’s youth employment initiative through the coordinated skills acquisition programmes offered to disadvantaged youths in rural communities in South-South Nigeria.
Over the years, Ikpea has demonstrated exceptional leadership, integrity, and honesty as a shrewd entrepreneur and investor.
JEN Canada is a Canada-based relief, advocacy, and social development organisation that provides a platform for the youth of African descent and newcomers to Canada to actualise their Canadian dreams.
