WATCH: On Canada Day, the Ogbomo family will officially become Canadian citizens. Ending an odyssey that has seen them travel the world, and fulfilling an 11 year dream to find a new home. Doug Vaessen has their story.
CALGARY – It will be a Canada Day celebration unlike any other for one Calgary family on Wednesday morning.
“It’s a very big day, a huge day,” said Henry Ogbomo, as his family prepares to become Canadian citizens in a special ceremony at our Global News studios.
Ogbomo’s wife, Sabine, is from Cameroon, but always wanted to move to Canada. Ogbomo is from Nigeria and fell in love with Canada after attending a friend’s wedding in 2004.
“That day was the day I fell in love with Canada – and it was in Calgary I spent just one week. That week was enough to make up my mind: this was the place we should be.”
Ogbomo, Sabine, and daughters Athalia, 10, and Eliya, 7, will all become Canadians on Wednesday. Ogbomo’s four-year-old son Neriah and 16-month-old Shekinah are already citizens, because they were born here.
“Where they will not feel inferior or where they will not feel less compared to other people, where they can just be themselves and be properly developed….and a better way of life.”
Thirty new Canadians will be sworn in during a special ceremony beginning at 8 a.m. on the Morning News.
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