A non-governmental organization, the Women, Youth, Children and Crime Organisation (WYCCO) and Canadian-based Maternal and Infant Mortality (MAIM) organisation have donated various food items to the New Kuchingoro Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp and BEMA Homes for the less-privileged.
Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and WYCCo leader Mrs Farida Waziri who leads WYCCO, made a case for the less-privileged at the ceremony
Some of the items donated by WYCCO and MAIM, headed by Nigerian-Canadian Mrs Ladi Jatau, include: yams, oranges, noodles and cake.
Chairman of the camp Mr. Philemon Emmanuel, expressed gratitude to WYCCO and MAIM for the gesture.
He said: ”We really appreciate what they have done and we are praying for them that may God bless them, may God continue to protect them and their families and to bless them.”
At the BEMA Homes for the less-privileged, the Founder, Benedict Dzreke, said:”Our interaction with Mrs Waziri showed that she has passion for the less- privileged and I believe that we will continue to partner with her so that she will reach out on our behalf to see that we help more children, educating them and giving them a good environment and a good living standard.”
Mrs Waziri recalled that she took to humanitarian support since 2000 when she was a commissioner for policein charge of the Special Fraud Unit “when I arrested lots and lots of young people, drug couriers, while their masters, the kingpins will take to their heels and we will get the boys and jail them because ignorance of the law is not an excuse.
“And it hurts me, especially when some died in the process. I have been doing this until my other friend, a Canadian, joined. She is very concerned about the homes and what happens. She floated this NGO, MAIM and we partnered with her.
“I have been doing this on a quiet level. I have never asked for grant, but it gives me such joy to touch another life, to put a smile on the face of others,” Mrs Waziri said.
She noted that some people are living on hope for the rest of their lives, hoping that their situation would one day be better, saying that for the IDPs to have left their homes where they have friends and family to a place where they can’t even eat good food, it was a very, very sad thing.
“That is why I told them to pray and be patient. The government is doing the best, but no government will take back IDPs to endangered place where those bad people will come and wipe them out.
“But it is our duty as Nigerians to remember that we have brothers and sisters there. Occasions come like this, the nouveau riche are there, the rich are there, the middle class, they should remember that we have and reach out to them, to put a smile on their faces. Not that we abandon them and forget all about them,” Waziri added.
The former EFCC chair called on Nigerians to look out for the less privileged in the society and extend a hand of love to them.
“This is what I am saying to them: They should look out for people. When God blesses you, reach out to bless the next person. That is what is called life. It is not that you accumulate wealth and feel big that you have exotic cars and you have money. Look unto the other people who are less privileged. It is not their fault. They too would want to be rich, but all fingers are not equal.
“They should remember like 2020 is coming. Reach out in your vicinity, your area, those poor people, reach out to them, put a smile on their face,” Waziri concluded.
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