By Blessing Otobong-Gabriel
Management and board members of Chris Igbokwe Foundation at the weekend stormed Internally Displaced, IDPs, camps in Abuja to extend hand of assistant to the most vulnerable in the society, mostly from Adamawa, Yobe and Borno States.
The team led by president of the foundation, Chief Chris Igbokwe, who expressed shock over the general conditions of the camps, promised to equip the only hospital in the camp with medical items to reduce the incessant loss of lives to communicable diseases.
Chief Igbokwe, who offered scholarships to 20 IDPs to obtain National Certificate in Education, NCE, at Grand Plus College of Education, Ilorin, also gave 40 IDPs free skill acquisition training, as well as donated food items, financial support and a generator to power their boreholes.
He appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to help those living in IDP camps, noting that “you don’t need to be a politician to help people. Those IDPs need to be given better training for them not to be used as objects of national destabilisation,” he said.
Also, patron of the foundation, Sir Mike Obienyi reassured Nigerians on the readiness of the foundation to complement the effort of government in training more youth and women with relevant skills and empower them enough to add positive value to the nation.
Obienyi said the Chris Igbokwe Foundation, which is in partnership with God, was committed to making a better life out of millions of vulnerable youths and women.
In his remarks, the chairman of WAASA IDP Camp, Abuja, which has over 5000 IDPs, Mr. Joefry Bitrus thanked the foundation for the kind gesture, especially the free NCE scholarship and skill acquisition programmes, begged the federal government to do more in bringing peace to their local communities so that they could go home.
The occasion was graced by the national leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, WAANSA Nigeria, Arewa Women Assembly and the management of Grand Plus College of Education.
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