Dennis Udoma, Uyo
Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Comrade Ini Ememobong has become the 15th President of the Rotary Club International, Uyo Metropolis following his installation on Thursday.
The event which took place at Emerald Event Center, Uyo was also attended by the creme de la creme of the society and the media respectively.
Ememobong, who took over from Rtn Ubong Jeremiah in his acceptance speech titled, “behold, a great door of service opens” said, his stewardship would be centered on humanitarian services by working for the common good of the people as his greatest creed.
He pledged to invest his time, energy and resources to the service of Rotary Club of Uyo metropolis and Rotary Club International in general.
“Rotary is an excellent vehicle that drives on the expressway of service to humanity and for about a decade, I have witnessed Rotary through Rotarians, put smiles on million of faces, save lives, protect the environment, advance the course of global peace, he said.
The Commissioner earlier in the day, made a pre – installation visits to the QIC Leprosy Hospital, Ekpene Obom in Etinan LGA, Government Primary School, Afaha Ubeh Itam and Christ the King Catholic School, Wellington Bassey Way, Uyo to donate palliatives and work tools such as; vulcanising machine, sewing machine and hair clippers to some of the inmates who were earlier trained on vocational skills.
Ememobong assured the hospital management that Rotary Club of Uyo Metropolis would continue to partner the hospital to fast-track humanitarian services to the leprosy patients, as well as similar health service providers in the state
The team also went to Government Primary School, Afaha Ubeh Itam to donate washing facility, and fifty dual decks, to boost teaching and learning conditions of the pupils.
He planted fifteen stands of coconut trees at Government Primary School, Afaha Ubeh Itam and another fifteen stands at CKC, Willington Bassey Way in Uyo Metropolis, and a donation of additional fifty dual decks as part of Rotary Club’s support to the free and compulsory education policy of the state government.
Receiving the Rotary President of Uyo Metropolis and his entourage, the Medical Supritendent of the hospital, Dr. Charles Ekandem thanked Comrade Ememobong for the visit, and his numerous humanitarian services to the less privileged in the society.
Ekandem said, the exemplary lifestyle of Ememobong was synonymous with the ideals and goals of the Rotary Club which he was now a pointman in the state.
Dr. Ekanem decried the practice of stigmatisation against leprosy victims and ostracisation by family members noting that, such practices were debasing to human essence, thus sometimes making it very difficult for the victims to experience full recovery.
