GOVERNMENT OF IMO STATE
PRESS RELEASE
SUBJECT: GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA CALLS ON THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
TO MAKE LAWS THAT WOULD BENEFIT THE LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY
The governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has
called on the National Assembly to make laws that would ensure the protection
and benefit of the less privileged children in the society.
The governor made the call when about
one hundred members of the House of Representatives led by Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila,
who is the majority leader of the House and also an Aspirant to the Office of
the Speaker, met with the students of Rochas Foundation College of Africa on Wednesday,
May 22, 2019 at the premises of the Institution, stating that such law would
ensure that the circumstances of birth do not prevent any child from achieving
the goal for which God created him or her.
He stated “I call on the National
Assembly to promulgate a law to support less privileged children all over
Nigeria. If that is done and they get education, nobody knows who amongst such
children will solve the Nation’s problem. They need your encouragement. A law
should also be made in Nigeria to support those who are doing charity work. I
have done all these things for 20years yet no recognition from the Federal
Republic of Nigeria or State Government except from people that came from other
African Countries, who visited the Foundation.”
His words “It is unfortunate that
whatever you do in this Country is interpreted in the political line, but this
is not politics because if it is politics, it wouldn’t have been for 20years
and still counting. This is life but I always say that if politics means
helping the poor then let everybody be a politician. Our nation will be a
better place.
He further stated “We are also
requesting for 5 persons from each of the States in Nigeria to come to our
University to study medicine free of charge. We are partnering with JAMB to see
that those who score very high grades are given this opportunity. This
opportunity is not for the poor but for the best brains in our society. Our
free education in the Secondary Schools is for the poor and less privileged
only but our University scholarship for medicine is for the brilliant students
both poor and rich”.
According to the governor “If Nigeria
can be together under one roof and speak the same language, the issue of where
you come from will eventually die in this Country. We are one in this nation”.
In his speech, the leader of the team
and the majority leader House of Representatives and equally an aspirant to the
Speakership, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila stated “Your Excellency, you are a kind
man. You have been described in many superlative words but hardly has anyone
mentioned your kindness. What you are offering to these children is not
education only, it has gone beyond education. It is service to humanity. Windston
Churchill said, you make a living from what you earn but you make a life from
what you give. You have proved to the world that you are a giver”.
He continued “We came to Imo State with
a smaller vision and mission but we have met here a bigger vision. We in the
Federal House of Representatives will go into partnership with your foundation.
I, as a person as part of my duty to my constituents, goes into schools within
my Constituency to teach. I will come here to teach once in a while if given
the opportunity. What you are doing Your Excellency is God’s calling in your
life. God does not just call anyone, he chooses those He calls”.
Sam
Onwuemeodo
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor
PICTURE CAPTION
Governor Rochas Okorocha (middle in the
2nd row), Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila (Majority Leader, House of
Representatives & Speakership aspirant, 1st left), members of
the House of Representatives in his entourage, with some students of Rochas Foundation
College of Africa, after an interaction with the Students at the College
Premises in Owerri on Wednesday, May 22, 2019.
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