By Douglas Okoro
The OO Daniels Foundation (OODF), a non-profit organisation, has urged leaders to initiate programmes that would improve the lives and livelihoods of the citizens.
Mr Daniel Okorie, President/Founder, OODF, made the call on Wednesday in Abakaliki while unveiling activities to mark the foundation’s end-of the-year programme.
Okorie said that the hardship in the country was enough to ginger good-spirited individuals to initiate programmes that would cushion the negative effects of the difficult economic conditions.
He commended a former House of Representatives member, Mr Livinus Makwe, for his commitment to grassroots development and support for citizens.
Okorie said that Makwe had continued to inspire hope and had shown leadership beyond public office through various philanthropic gestures.
He was reacting to the recent distribution of over 250 bags of 50 kilogrammes bags of rice by the former lawmaker in collaboration with Federal Cooperative College, Oji-River, to indigent and vulnerable people of Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi.
The foundation noted that Makwe, who represented Ohaozara/Onicha/Ivo Federal Constituency of Ebonyi between 2019 and 2023, had continued to donate empowerment items to the less privileged persons to ameliorate their suffering.
The president added that Makwe who hails from Ishiagu in Ivo LGA had also supported tertiary education in his area through the award of university scholarships to brilliant students in his constituency.
“Makwe’s sustained commitment to the welfare of his people after leaving office shows that true leadership is rooted in service.
”He has continued to touch lives positively especially the downtrodden, the elderly and the needy,” Okorie said.
Okorie, who said that leadership must be anchored on selfless service to the people, called on other past and serving political office holders to emulate Makwe by initiating programmes that directly impact on people.
“We must come together as leaders and as a community to bear the burden of one another especially in this period of economic recession, when many are in dire need of food,” he added.
He also reaffirmed his foundation’s willingness to collaborate with well-meaning individuals and organisations to promote education, youth empowerment and rural development in parts of Ebonyi.
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