A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO),
the Nigerian Technology Impact Group (NITIG), has called on the Federal
Government (FG) to immortalise late Founder and Group Managing Director of
Omatek Venture Plc, Mrs. Florence Omatule Seriki, reports ITRealms.
NITIG in a press statement made available
to ITRealms by its chairman and director of communications, Messrs Abimbola
Tooki and Olubayo Abiodun, said they received with a rude shock the death of
Engineer (Mrs) Florence Seriki, who is the chief executive officer (CEO) Omatek
Venture Plc, who passed on at age 53 on Friday, March 3 at the Lagos University
Teaching Hospital (LUTH) after a protracted battle with cancer.
Also, NITIG though saddened by the
untimely demise of this amazing amazon who bestrode the technology plane in
Nigeria, said they are however, celebrating the indelible legacies of this
unique technoprenuer who brighten the hope of women in the male dominated industry
with her brazen forays into the terrain laced with risky bumps for investors.
Based on her exploits in the Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) industry, NITIG called on relevant federal
and state government authorities to present posthumous award to Engineer (Mrs)
Florence Omatule Seriki in the nation’s hall of fame to immortalise her ground
breaking contributions in the fields of innovations, entrepreneurship, research
and development, commerce, knowledge development and brand management.
NITIG further said, it will continue to
celebrate this woman of distinction and would be unrelenting in ensuring a
befitting honour for this ICTs local content legend, who was passionate about
‘Buy made in Nigeria.’
The group further said it is consoled
that with her sterling qualities exemplified in the combination of brawn, brain
and beauty, Florence devoted her energies to laying the building blocks for
what is today reckoned as the foundation for the made in Nigeria Personal
Computers (PCs) and hand held ICT devices that her company pioneered in Nigeria.
“The pedigree of her unparalleled and high
octane successes in the technology terrain was hinged on her brilliant
performances in academic sojourn from the cradle till she graduated as a Chemical
Engineer in 1993 at the old University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University),”
the group said. NITIG also said it’s comforted
that Florence’s beautiful heart which influenced her nuances endeared her to the
ICT community and other stakeholders in the Nigerian project.
“This acknowledgment will not be too
much for a woman, mother, innovator, entrepreneur and thinker who harvested
over 150 awards in the 30 years journey of building Omatek as a viable brand in
the ICT ecosphere,” NITIG asserted.
Chuks Egbune/GEE
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