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NCSU Seeks Revamp Of RSNC, Condemns Disruption Of Health Programmes
The Nigeria Civil Service Union(NCSU) has appealed to Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State to give the Rivers State Newspaper Corporation (RSNC), publishers of The Tide Newspaper a facelift and also revamp the corporation to make it compete favourably with other media organisations in the State and the country.
This is even as the union has condemned the recent disruption of health programmes organised by the Rivers State Ministry of Health in Eliozu Community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area and Omerelu Community in Ikwerre Local Government Area.
The Rivers State Chairman of NCSU, Comrade Chukwuka Richman Osumah, who made the appeal in an interview in Port Harcourt, said it is necessary for the Governor Fubara administration to give a facelift to the media house which is located along Ikwerre Road in the Port Harcourt metropolis.
According to him, the media house today needs a serious facelift because of its strategic location in the heart of the Garden City, and its present condition.
He noted that the RSNC is one of the oldest state-owned media organisations in the country, which has survived debilitating economic rigours and challenges, recalling that it was one of the strongest government-owned media outlets in the country that was carrying out printing jobs in the 1970s and the early 1980s, saying revamping and equipping it with state-of-the art facilities would make it bounce back to prominence.
Osumah, however, expressed optimism that the Fubara administration, despite the distractions it is grappling with would keep its promise of revamping the media house, to bolster its operations and production capacity.
While condemning the recent disruption of health programmes organised by the state government in some parts of the State by some faceless individuals and security agents, the labour leader said such action was politically motivated, and appealed to President Bola Tinubu to call to order the Inspector General of Police and some political actors in the State.
According to him, the health programmes were designed to enhance the health and wellbeing of Rivers people, particularly children, and wondered why some persons would disrupt them.
Osumah also stressed the need for President Tinubu to order the police to vacate the 23 local government councils in Rivers State, describing a situation where workers of the various councils are no longer going to work as worrisome and appalling.
He opined that for the sheer fact that this scenario has persisted and has continued to play out in the State without the Federal Government taking appropriate action has portrayed the Tinubu administration in bad light, adding that it simply means that the President is not in charge.
Rivers state Deputy Governor Professor Ngozi Nma Odu has commended “The Port Harcourt City One Love,”a Port Harcourt based humanitarian orgnisation For it’s commitment towards alleviating the sufferings of the poor and vulnerable in the society.
Professor Ngozi Nma Odu said this while speaking at this year’s edition of “operation feed the needy” a yearly outreach program of “The Port Harcourt City One Love ” in Port Harcourt.
The Deputy Governor said by feeding more than sixty thousands hungry people within the past six years, the Port Harcourt City One Love Movement has distinguished itself as a club that cares for the less privilege in the society.
She commended the , organization for listing eleven thousand persons to be fed in the current exercise.
Meanwhile The Port Harcourt City One Love has planned a permanent solution to the problem of feeding the poor in the state.
The leader of the group Mr Idaere Gogo Ogan who said this in an interview with newsmen during the distribution of food items to the poor and vulnerables in Port Harcourt said the organization is planning a permanent food kitchen where poor and vulnerable persons can work in anytime and get fed.
Idaere Gogo Ogan said more than sixty thousands poor and vulnerable persons across Port Harcourt City and environs have been fed since the inception of “The operation feed the needy” program six years ago,adding that so far sixty thousands poor and vulnerable persons have beneffited.
He described the group as a platform to promote friendship, brotherhood, community development empathy and feeding the less privilege and hungry people
“That’s what we are doing today here,so we started the exercise six years ago”.he said.
Ogan said the effort was a private sector driven initiative but added “it also involves people in Government because the platform does not recognize any division,we bring everybody together in unity , friendship and brotherhood”he said.
He said the effort will go along way in alleviating hunger especially following the prevailing hunger in the country.
According to him “you know the country is very tough, people are hungry people are starving, there is a whole lot of economic hardship,so for us, this is just our own way of reaching out, our own social contribution to what is very difficult”he said.
Over eleven thousand persons were fed in the just concluded exercise.
Areas of coverage include, Isaac Boro park, Port Harcourt prison/Macoba, Borokiri/Enugu waterside Bundu areas Waterlines and others.
Some of the beneficiaries including an 80 years old widow commended the movement for the annual programm and urged other organizations to emulate them
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