December 17, (THEWILL) – The Care People Foundation has used the occasion of its annual carnival for the orphans, widows, motherless and people with disability to call on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to put smiles on the faces of Nigerians and ease their pains.
The foundation’s President, Rev. Paul Tunde Tioluwani said the president and his cabinet should introduce policies that will ease the pains of Nigerians.
He said many Nigerians are going through hardship and the government must come to their aid, adding that the people on the streets of Nigerians are not smiling at all.
Tioluwani also urged the Federal Government to put in place welfare programmes for the less privileged in the society, especially the widows, orphans, motherless and people with physical disability, saying .
“The role of leadership is to come and fix problems and not to compound them. Before the Advent of this administration, Nigerians were already passing through hell. When President Tinubu assumed power, he brought the issue of removal of subsidy on petroleum products and this brought additional pain on the populace.
“Government must introduce policies that will ease the pains of Nigerians. Government must encourage farming. We need to go back to policies like ‘ Operations Feed the Nation’ and the ‘Green Revolution’ to encourage individuals to go into subsistence farming.
“The President and his cabinet members must put their thinking caps on, think outside the box and assist the ordinary Nigerians who are finding it difficult to survive”, Tioluwani said.
He said due to the harsh economic situation currently plaguing the Nigerian society, it has become increasingly difficult to help the poor and the needy but said that “out of sacrifice and Biblical injunction, “we made it a compulsion against all odds to make this year’s event a reality, knowing full well that he that showeth mercy will obtain mercy”.
Speaking on the activities of the foundation, Tioluwani said “Since the inception of the Foundation in 1990, to the glory of God, we have imparted thousands of helpless people in Nigeria, given out over 2000 scholarship awards to indigent students in Nigeria tertiary institutions, established a multi – million naira orphanages with about 100 children and have trained about 10 graduates from this facility with two fresh graduates.
Also speaking, the Chairman of the occasion and former Vice Chancellor of the Bell University, Otta, Ogun State, Professor Isaac Adeyemi said Tinubu’s government should as part of its programme of Renewed Hope, renew hope for the physically challenged people in the country.
He said the Renewed Hope should be all encompassing, adding that the programme should be able to take care of the orphans, widows and the physically challenged people.
Adeyemi said concrete steps should be taken to ensure that these groups of people have rekindled hope in this austere time.
The Foundation as part of putting smiles on the faces of people during this festive period gave support to 100 widows in forms of clothing and foodstuffs.
It also made free donation of wheelchairs to people with disability as well as Sewing machines, foodstuffs, Grinding machines for other less privileged people in the society.
Pupils from different Orphanages and Physically Challenged Homes in and around Ibadan were feted in the spirit of Yuletide.
Care People Foundation in conjunction with Solape Animasahun Foundation also gave N4 million scholarship to 35 indigent students from various tertiary institutions in the country.
AYO ESAN, has been actively reporting and analyzing political events for different newspapers for over 18 years. He has also successfully covered national and state elections in Nigeria since the inception of this democracy in 1999.
