Kyari, other inmates to benefit from SEOF donation

… SEOF seek support for NCoS

Suspended Deputy Commissioner of police (DCP), Abba Kyari, and other inmates at the Kuje Correctional Centre benefit from a Non-profit Organization, Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF) donation, as the group donated Christmas items as part of its humanitarian support to the vulnerable.

The foundation on Friday donated 50 bags of 50kg rice; 5 Bags of 100kg Beans; 5 bags of 100kg Garri; 50 Cartons of Indomie Noddles; 10 Jerrycans Vegetable Oil; 20 Bundles of Tissue Paper; 100 Tubers of Yams; 10 Cartons of Tomatoes; 5 Bags of Salt.

While presenting the items to the Centre, in Abuja, the Vice President, of Sir Emeka Offor Foundation, Mrs Adaora Offor, called on the federal government to give a high premium to the management of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCOs).

She noted that the aim of the foundation is to address the challenges of poverty and create improving opportunities for marginalized and vulnerable groups in society.

Offor said: “We are here to share love and remember our brothers and sisters who are incarcerated for various reasons in accordance with the laws of the land.

“It challenges our collective sense of humanity to show empathy to all people of God whose circumstances may appear helpless.

“There is always hope in God and we encourage all inmates to see their present circumstance as a call for attitudinal change, behaviour modification, skill acquisition period and incubation period to become better citizens to our nation and humanity.”

She also urged other NGOs and well-meaning Nigerians to remember the helpless by loving and sharing with each other during the season.

While receiving items, the Controller General of Corrections, Haliru Nababa, who was represented by the Deputy Controller-General, Melchizedek Marylaurine, commended the SEOF foundation for sharing relationships and values of love with the Centre.

Also speaking, the Chief of Staff to the President, Sir Emeka Offor Foundation, Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Chris Ezike (retd), noted that the foundation has impacted much life globally through education, health and empowerment.

He said that the foundation was established with the mission to reduce poverty and create economic opportunity for those who are vulnerable in Nigeria.