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Residents Of 18 LGAs In Anambra State Benefit Relief Materials From Chief Agbasimelo
Joel Ajayi
The quest of Chief Eloka Godwin Agbasimelo, the founder of the Oga ndi Oga Foundation to reduce the burden of people of Anambra state has continue to wax stronger day by day, as Residents of 18 Local Government Areas out of 21 recieved the food items to cushion effect of COVID-19 in the state.
While many Nigerians in other states were seen scrampling to adjust in an attempt to reduce unprecedented impact of Pandemic Covid-19, Anambra indegenes, home and abroad, were seen smiling courtesy of the kind hearted Chief Agbasimelo.
The gesture which was put in place by him in the 18 LGAs, owing to the relief materials distributed, were packages of 70,000 Ten kilogram bags of rice, among other food items.
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The representatives of the different local government came to receive their own in the Chairman’s home town Ezinifite in Nnewi South LGA, Anambra state.
Distributing the food items, the Coordinator of Oga ndi Oga foundation, Chief Engr Echezona Uzoka was on ground to distribute the items in line with what the Chairman of Oga ndi Oga Foundation and Goddosky International FC Chief Eloka Godwin Agbasimelo has been doing to touch the lives of the people living in Anambra state and outside the state.
According to the coordinator, the Chairman will continue to help people as it is a commitment he has decided to see to the end.
It’s on record that Chief Agbasimelo, a philanthropist, has been using his resources to help the needy.
Just few days ago, Anambrans in their numbers in Lagos recieved the support of the benevolent Chief, with different food items to help people who cannot go out to source for their daily meals, as the lockdown is taking a toll on millions of people in the country.
It doesn’t end there, recently, Chief Agbasimelo gave out hundreds of ladies motorcycles to individual women of different local government to enable the traders who find it difficult getting to the place of their trade in neighbouring towns in Anambra state.
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North East Commission; Group Heads For Court Over Reappointment of Former MD. Mohamed Alkali
…. Exposed How Billion was looted
Crises situations in the North East, might assume another dimension, as the North East Commission statutory established to address humanitarian crisis and infrastructural deficit, as a result of insurgency , is embedded in management crises over the appointment of the management Director.
Just as the Reappointment of Mohammed Alkali Goni, after serving his five years as tenure in office as the managing Director has become a matter of litigations, allegations of mismanagement of resources in the Commission has emerged over the weekend in Abuja .
Addressing newsmen, in Abuja on Saturday, North East pressure Group, said that the appointment of management Staff of the Commission has been politicise to a level where every appointment zone to the North East has been taken over by Borno state
The Coordinator of the group , Dr. Haruna Garus Gololo, a political activist, who led the group in a terse press Statement said that the group will be left with no option than to approach the Court to seek redress , if the concerned authorities failed to address the rot in the Commission.
” We are constraint, to draw the attention of the President and Commander of the Armed Forces, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, to the abuse of the Act. establishing the North East Commission ( NEC), by his Vice president, Senator Kashim Shettima over the statutory appointment of the managing Director of the Commission “
” The Act . clearly defined the procedures and laid down rules on the appointment of the Managing Director upon the approval by the National Assembly, which stipulates five years tenure, it is this act that has been subjected to gross Constitutional abuse with the Reappointment of Alkali, after years in Office ” he said.
Dr. Gololo, also an All progressive Congress ( APC), Chieftain said that
” Since the inceptions of this administration, every Federal appointments meant for North East is being taken to Borno state with impunity .”
Continue, the one coordinator of the All progressive Congress (APC), pointed at the appointment of the Minister of Agriculture and the recent Reappointment of Mohammed Alkali Goni, for another five years as against the Constitutional provisions “
” There are about six states in the North East, Gombe , Bauchi, Yobe and Borno, but all the appointment have been to Borno”
He warned that” we have concluded our investigations using some auditors and discovered the billions of stolen in the Commission, rather than addressing the challenges in North East, the management has become part of the crises because of their desperation to cover up the monumental Corruption”
Gololo, accused the Vice president, Senator Kashim Shettima of the implications of supporting the Reappointment of Alkali, as this may further create another crises in the Commission.
” We are given the presidency only Seven days to reverse the Reappointment of Alkali, because it is the turn of Gombe state, we have competent people in Gombe and Bauchi “
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