
The President, IkoroduOga Lions Club, Chief Adams Oridupa, has called for change of orientation among Nigerians going into public service.
Oridupa said that under normal circumstance, public service should not be an avenue to enrich themselves at the expense of the people that elected them into office.
He made the remarks during his investiture and fund raising ceremony as the second president of the club in Ikorodu.
At the event, club officers for 2023/24 Lions year were also installed while five new members were inducted.
Oridupa charged Nigerians to be their brothers’ keeper, and called on political office holders to stop seeing themselves above fellow Nigerians.
He assured of carrying out five major projects during his service year, listing the projects to include digging of boreholes for two or three communities that do not have water; sight project by inviting members of the public and a doctor to examine residents on need for reading or correctional glasses to about 200 people as well as three or five surgeries for victims of cataract depending on the cost
Oridupadisclosed that the club in the previous months within its service year had given notebooks to pupils in some primary schools, aside providing guiding sticks to some visually impaired persons among other projects.
He said other projects after his investiture would be feeding the needy and the hungry; empower widows or young people with five grinding machines; equip some youth with skills and procure for them equipment to work after completing their training.
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