Buguma: The Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Onengiyeofori
George has convened a 9-MAN Southern Religious and Traditional Leaders’ Committee (SORTLE). The committee aims to educate rural dwellers and communities in Asari-Toru LGA about immunization.
The Chairman of the Asari-Toru Local Government Area wants to provide the people under his charge with better healthcare. Accordingly, he has started the campaign for the awareness of immunization exercise amongst rural dwellers.
Members of the 9-MAN committee are as follows:
1. Iboroma Talbot Pokubo will serve as the Chairman
2. Dr Kina Christian has been appointed the Secretary
3. Stephen Emmanuel – Member
4. Barr Tubotamuno Dick – Member
5. Reverend Capt Emmanuel Asawo – Member
6. Alhaji David Pennuel – Member
7. Oprite Braide – Member
8. Bite-ekwea Cotterell – Member
9. Obeleye Tom George – Member
The members of the 9-Man committee will be responsible for organizing and coordinating a robust awareness campaign for the immunization exercise. The Chairman of the Council tasked members to be diligent in their duties while he was inaugurating the council. He added that “health is wealth and that the primary goal of man is to create wealth.”
Secretary to Local Government, Bro. Sele Francis attended the ceremony on behalf of the Chairman of the Local Government Area. He thanked the initiators of this project, the Sydani Group, for bringing this awareness campaign to Asari-Toru LGA.
Meanwhile, Dr Gloria Anyawu, the State lead of the Southern Religious and Traditional Leaders’ Engagement Project, spoke to the media after the inauguration. She said, “The project is for health, which will spur up immunization, particularly polio immunization, to strengthen primary healthcare services in the LGA.”
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Committee who is also the Chairman of Asari-Toru Area Traditional Rulers Council, King Iboroma Talbot Pokubo, said the committee will expedite action to spread the needed awareness campaign for the exercise.
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