BY GODWIN SAM
As part of his 46th birthday anniversary celebration, the member representing Onna State Constituency, Hon. (Otuekong) Nse Essien, on Wednesday, 23rd march, 2016, visited the motherless children’s Home, Mkpot, to celebrate with the children.
As part of his 46th birthday anniversary celebration, the member representing Onna State Constituency, Hon. (Otuekong) Nse Essien, on Wednesday, 23rd march, 2016, visited the motherless children’s Home, Mkpot, to celebrate with the children.
Otuekong Essien said that he was motivated by the goodness of God upon his life to decide to celebrate his birthday with the children. “I thank God for the privilege of life. Living to see my 46th birthday is a very big privilege because some people were born the day I was born had died, but God preserved me to this day. I come here because I consider myself more privileged than this children, so I felt it wise to come and celebrate with them to give them hope and encouragement that hope is not lost,” he stated.
If God could take me from a low background to become a House Member today, He can do same for these ones. If where I am today were to be bought with money or attained through high family connections, I wouldn’t be here today. But let me use this opportunity to plead with parents not to throw away their children. Instead, they should be proud of the children God gave them, no matter the circumstances when the children arrive.
The child you throw away today may be the one that would have raised you up tomorrow” he admonished.
Speaking also at the occasion, the Transition Chairman of Onna Local Governemnt Council, Bishop Ufot Sunday, thanked the House Member for choosing to come and celebrate with the children at the Home. “I am happy to witness and participate in what my House Member has done. Quite unlike other rich people who would prefer to go and celebrate with other rich people, this one has chosen to come and identify with the down-trodden and less privileged members of the society. The blessings of God will never depart from his home in Jesus name,” to which everyone present echoed a big “Amen”.
The Transition Chairman revealed that the Onna Local Government Council used to subvent the Motherless Babies Home with seventy thousand naira (N70,000) monthly before the economic situation of the council was affected by the cash crunch affecting the whole country currently. He however thanked the Onna Representative for helping to bear the burden of the council.
Also speaking earlier while receiving the House Member with his entourage to the Home, Mrs. Esther Ufot Imah, who spoke on behalf of the Matron of the Home who was out on official duty, that the House Member and his wife and children for coming to identify with the children. “I am very happy and excited that a noble man in the society would identify with these children. I pray that God would never forget this labour of love in Jesus name, amen”. She however added that some people are still in the habit of throwing away their children, stating that the latest arrival at the home happened three days prior to the day of the visits. According to her, the child was discovered inside a pit toilet and brought to the home.
High point of the event was the House Member assisted by his wife, Mrs. Ndifreke Essien, and children cutting the birthday cake with the motherless babies.
Items worth hundreds of thousands of naira were presented for the upkeep of the childrend by the House Member and his family. Items donated to the home included bags of rice, and garri; cartons of beverages; noodles, biscuits, toilet soaps, detergents and rolls of toilet tissue.
Meanwhile the Onna House Member, Hon. (Otuekong) Nse Essien, has promised to used his office as the Deputy Chief Whip of the 6th Assembly to look at the laws of the land in order to make laws that will protect the lives of infants in the society.
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