By: Felix Ikpotor
As part of efforts aimed at reaching out to vulnerable persons in her district especially in this yuletide season, the Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr Adaeze Oreh, has given out cash gifts, wrappers, rice and school bags to 75 widows and 300 children in Ndoni district of Ogba/Egbema/ Ndoni local government area of the state.
The women were drawn from the three wards in Ndoni district.
The commissioner said the gesture is to appreciate the people for sending her to represent them in the Executive Council of Rivers State and to tell them how she has fared.
“We gathered all our people here for me to have the opportunity to say thank you to them for sending me to serve and for us to jubilate together and thank God for life as we pray for a good new year for all of us in Ndoni and Rivers State, and for us to also mark and show our support for His Excellency, Sir Siminalayi Fubara,” Oreh said.
She expressed fulfilment at the opportunity to our smiles on people of her district saying: “I’m leaving here invigorated knowing that we have in our own small way touched the lives of our people as we vow to do more in service of our people, in service of Rivers State and in service of Nigeria.”
She used the medium to call elites from the area to remember their home so as to collectively alleviate the plight of their people.
In his speech at the occasion, chairman of Ogba/Egbema/ Ndoni local government area, Prince Isaac Umejuru, thanked the commissioner for remembering her people in this yuletide season.
He prayed people of the district to reciprocate the kind gesture by supporting her and her principal, Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
Umejuru used the opportunity to assure people of Ndoni that the area would soon witness some developments courtesy the council.
Some beneficiaries, Mrs Elizabeth Ijeoma Samuel and Victoria Okenna, in their separate speeches showered praises on the health commissioner, adding that they have never seen such in their district for a long while.
They said the gesture by the health commissioner has put smiles on the faces of both the women and children in the area.
