FIRST LADY OLUREMI TINUBU: ‘ELDERS NEED OUR ATTENTION’, AS AKWA-IBOM KEYS INTO ELDERLY SUPPORT INITIATIVE
By Oki Samson, Trek Africa Newspaper
L-R: First Lady, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON and First Lady, Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor (Mrs) Patience Enow
The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON has re-emphasized the need for Nigerians to give more attention to the elderly. She made the important note while receiving the Wife of the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor (Mrs) Patience Eno in her office at the State House, Abuja, Trek Africa Newspaper can report.
Senator Oluremi Tinubu noted that the elderly have paid their dues in life and deserve to be taken care of in their old age. ‘It is easy to bypass them, so to speak, because their voice is no more loud. They need our attention.’
‘I commend the Akwa Ibom State Governor His Excellency Pastor Eno for buying into the vision of the Renewed Hope Initiative Elderly Support Scheme, RHIESS’, Tinubu applauded the Governor of oil-rich Akwa-Ibom.
The press statement granted Trek Africa Newspaper by Special Adviser (Media) to the First Lady, Busola Kukoyi noted that the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Shade Tinubu also used the opportunity to congratulate the Governor for his victory at the Supreme Court, ‘it is now time to work fully. Let us put politics behind and face governance’.
Earlier, her guest, the wife of the Akwa Ibom state governor, Pastor (Mrs) Patience Eno explained that she was at the State House to update the First Lady on the RHIESS. ‘My husband the governor has decided to adopt the RHIESS program as initiated by you and says that it would now be a monthly program. He recognizes that it is a highly laudable one and it really brings joy and hope to the elderly.’
The wife of the Governor stated that Akwa Ibom State will now host 500 elderly, aged 65 years and above every month and give them Fifty Thousand Naira each (N50,000.00) in addition to giving them other items and having free medical checks.
It would be recalled that the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON through the Renewed Hope Initiative had on the 21st of December held the maiden edition of the elderly Support Scheme, RHIESS nationwide, where 250 elderly per state, the FCT and the Veterans of the Armed Forces aged 65years and above were given one Hundred Thousand Naira each with other items and medical checks.
