Ex-Lawmaker Donates Bus To Physically Challenged Persons

The former member
representing Obio/Akpor Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Hon. Kingsley Ogundu Chinda, has donated a brand new 18-seater Toyota Hiace bus and three tricycles, popularly known as ‘keke NAPEP’ to Hope Dey Foundation, an NGO of physically challenged persons in the area.
Presenting the items to the foundation recently, the lawmaker said the donation was part of his campaign promises to the physically challenged in the foundation.
Chinda disclosed that the occasion was also to flag-off Phase II of the free transport scheme as earlier promised.
He further stated that the donation would in no small measure help ease their transportation and enjoined them to utilize the gesture.
The former lawmaker hinted that he was consulting with experts to build a standard skills acquisition centre for the physically challenged persons in Obio/Akpor in order to enhance and build their capacity in various skills.
Chinda encouraged them to keep hope alive by assuring that, “in them there is plenty of hope that could be used to turn-around any society”.
The lawmaker called on the people not to be deceived by mediocre politicians who specialize in rhetorical promises just to have their way into positions and later abandon them, adding that politicians should be of good character and role models by keeping to their electoral promises after they have been elected into office.
“Politicians ought to be very responsible and serious minded persons in the society. As politicians, we are seen as role model in our society, and so we should mean everything we say and say only things that we mean’, he opined.
In his response, the president and founder of the foundation, Onye Amadi expressed delight over the donation to the physically challenged persons in the state, adding that the gesture would encourage them to be more active in the society, assuring of their unalloyed support.

Collins Barasimeye