WE PAY OVER N23M MONTHLY TO WIDOWS IN DELTA - COMMISSIONER

Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa

ASABA – Afure Sakpra, the Commissioner for Special Duties, Governor’s Office, Delta State, has disclosed that the state spends over N23 million monthly to care for widows.

He revealed this on Thursday during a ministerial press briefing, maintaining that the state government was looking to extend the number of widows’ slot under Widow Welfare Scheme.

According to him, the scheme has been effective, as over 5,000 despondent widows from each ward in the state benefitted from the monthly stipends.

“These widows are engaged into the state insurance scheme, where you would be entitled to free health services. No matter the degree or severity of the illness that may confront them, they are to get free health care,” he revealed.

“There are some special wards that have more people and again this particular problem has given us so much accolades as a result of the free healthcare benefit attached to it,” he said.

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10 Burnt To Death In Ughelli Express Road Military Check Point

No fewer than ten people were reported to have been burnt to death in a military check point mounted by Nigeria soldiers at Ekerawhen Junction of the East-West Road, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State on Saturday night, Delta Decides learnt that the multiple road accident involving cars and a fuel tanker was alleged to have been caused by the soldiers who were trying to stop a fuel tanker who refused to give them the usual check point tip.

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I Never Believed In Okowa's Administration Until I Met One Of His Aides....... Chukwuka Ejime, A Beneficiary Of Hon. Sunny Ogwu Kind Gesture Opens Up

"As a young boy, my parents desired to give me the best in life. They worked hard. In fact, in order that they might give me the best, they created a vacuum by exposing me to the care of strangers.

Not too long into the journey of my life, I had started smoking and was exposed to so many bad things at the early stage of my innocent life.

Though, my parents never knew anything. All these vices affected my life adversely. I stopped been a promising child. I became a source of sorrow to my parents. My father gave up on me while my mother would look at me and burst into tears. Neighbours made sure that their children kept a distance. I also lost all hope of ever making any success in life.

Thank God, my story changed when I stumbled on Hon. Sunny Ogwu, when he newly assumed office as SUBEB Chairman, Delta State, Nigeria. A man who knows how its hurts. He was skilled in mending the hopeless pieces of my yielded life. He gave me what no one had given me and I had a great peace.

He helped me, encouraged me and gave me the love that I had lacked. He advised me and asked me to go and acquire skill that can help me to be a man and also combat the challenges of life.

He encouraged me to  apply for YAGEP Program and expedited on it just to make sure that my name is shortlisted. Through YAGEP, I learnt a skill that is not only feeding me and my immediate family but my relatives that abandoned me.

When my family members saw that I was  cool headed and enhanced financially, they started coming close to me again not just for love but with their financial demands. They are holding me in high esteem in the family.

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THE BLOOPER OF GOVERNOR OKOWA'S SPEECH

As the administration of an Anioma son begins to wallow in recession and even depression, facts are now emerging as Deltans are now seeing the opposite of the prosperity slogan used by our governor during his last campaign as the state is not only in paradox but as it is said that in the midst of material abundance many can barely eke out a living. This negative socio-economic phenomenon has being perpetuated by the Governor’s sycophantic appointees who are presumed to be educationally literate but ethically illiterate and has lacked the moral qualification to be appointees. These appointees and their fans have impulse for obsession with material compulsion for short cut to affluence glorification by some members of the society whose major but unfortunate parameter index for measuring good life is flamboyant, affluence and conspicuous consumption despite the dwindling economy. To this end, the Governor should have known that formal educational qualification is not enough for any state that are preparing for growth rather, he made a mistake and was propagated by his sycophantic appointees who didn’t know the implication of his statement” OUR EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM SHOULD REFLECT THE 213 CENTURY”. To some, he meant well since it’s a matter of perception while to others, and people like us who are ethically literate in the moral compass he committed a big blunder. Over the time, it has being discovered that moral education is imminent and should not be left out when considering education­ as an indices for development. It is therefore clear that moral problem in the society which are: corruption, greed, dishonesty, violent, crime, political killing, electoral malpractice and other destructive behaviors call for moral value education. Presently, corruption drives and shapes social value in the state, and for some individual, the quest for “EASY MONEY” is a justification for breaking the laws of the State and distorting public policies directed towards Development. More-over, morality would not be important to the young ones if it does not matter to the adult. The young ones need inspiring role models of people who make positive contributions to their communities, but because many of them are ethically illiterates they do not know that corruption has socially injured us. To this end, it is evident that there is moral decadence among youth since many of them do not seem to realize that bribery, electoral violence, nepotism, looting and many more vicesare anti social behavior and are responsible for social unbalance in the state. Governor Okowa made a mistake not to have known that “moral education” can promote moral development. Permit me to say that the young ones are growing up believing that elective and appointed positions are for self interest and not for public interest just as many both young and old would say when they hear that some one won an election or an appointment. ”HE DON HAMMER“. These has not only resulted in several cutback and backdrop in the system but has equally affected our entrepreneurial habit­ even the civil service jobs has become humdrum, boring and unrewarding in spite of our material abundance just because our Governor and his cabinet have become Chiselers and are perilously governing us. They created pitfalls and scattered them along life highways and have therefore reaped a place for Deltans in the HALL OF POVERTY. They still continue to DIG even when they have discovered that we have been DOGG in a HOLE. This has not only made development an elusive concept but that there is a cry of SHAME since all monies voted for developments have now been diverted into private purse. Today, we celebrate these ROBBERS who have ROBBED us in broad day light due to the negative effects of their baseline of poverty. They are equally threatened as there is little they can loot compared to before and are now falling back to the poor masses by introducing various taxes like, property tax, okada riders tax, artisan tax, Haulage tax and even going as far as reducing Delta State staff strength by sacking more civil servants. Instead of addressing this negative trend, his sycophantic boys are Peddling AWARD for the Governors Father as the best teacher who retired since 1985. 

By Agboje God's Time Chukwuma

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