29/11/2023
Cross River First Lady Provides Artificial Limbs To Amputees.....
By providing artificial limbs to amputees in the state, Her Excellency, Wife of the Cross River State Governor, Mrs Eyoanwan Bassey Otu, has created a trajectory where humanitarian act assumes remarkable dimensions. Many of those amputees were already enveloped in deep privation before such unfortunate incidents. And with the various mishaps that led to their amputations, there have been further escalations of miseries, casting shadows of relentless despair, as many victims could barely feed themselves, talk less of affording artificial limbs.
The First Lady’s intervention of providing artificial Limbs to the amputees in the state is under the aegis of her pet programme known as Humanity Without Borders, an initiative with wide ranging and extensive outreaches, provoking transformations in human lives that resonate across borders. The development brought by this intervention is very consequential because it restores hope to the hopeless, makes the people's confidence and trust in government to replace cynicism and apathy.
Imagine a situation where a victim of amputation had a vocational skill that brings food to the table and is the bread winner of the family. What his amputation will mean is that he is incapacitated and many within his care will remain hungry while some may be deprived from going to school. Imagine the anguish that comes with the reality that one, who used to move around can no longer move around freely.
This impressive feat is a sign of swift success in the programme's implementation which heralds a new chapter and rattles the deep foundation of social investment with evidence-based milestones.The first Lady’s program, that seeks to advance tremendous transformation in humanities, remains a remarkable endeavour with seamless possibilities.
The First Lady is, indeed, stretching humanities beyond borders.We shall be analysing her programme initiatives, thematically, on this corner by evaluating the extent to which the programme implementation is closing the gap of social investment and how cognate obligations on the side of government is being fulfilled through her office. The promise of fulfilling the government's part of the extant Social Contract has never been this vivid.
By Eval Asikong
