Adebayo Adenrele
The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Ekiti State Coordinator, Mrs Mary Nnenna Chikezie has lauded a serving Corps Member in the State, Hannah Gmadapuya Bawa for erecting a Manual Borehole in Ese Community, Ise Orun Local Government Area, Ekiti State.
The State Coordinator, represented by the Zonal Inspector, Ikole Zone, Mrs Fumilayo Grace described Hannah as a diligent advocate of the scheme, who has used her Personal Community Development Project, which is the third arm of NYSC to help her host Community.
She thereby enjoined the Community to sustain and take care of the Project so that she could be recommended for an Award.
In her words, “I want to appreciate God for this project, I will join the Chairman, to tell the Community to please sustain the project.
“So, if you sustain it, Abuja would come around to look at it.
“No matter how you package Hannah, they would still want to come around to see the Project. So, I want to plead with my people in Ese Community to sustain the project, to elevate her in order to get an Award.
“The only thing I am going to say is to the Corps Members who are here apart from Hannah, please, look for other things that you can do and leave behind in the Community, they would always remember you for this when you are not in their midst again.”
The Convener of the Project, Hannah stated she has been ambitious to help the needy since her deployment to the state as a Corps Member.
She discovered that her Host Community is less developed and needs a helping hand especially, a project associated with Health Management.
She said “I had the great ambition to be the voice of the Voiceless, the hope of the Hopeless and as well, help the helpless. This was actually portrayed during my service year as a Corps Member.
“At first, during my orientation Camp days, I glanced through the regimented area of the camping activities and fell in love with the greenish fertile parts of the land.
“Moreover, after a few weeks of my staying on Ese Community discovered that the Street is less developed and needs a helping hand in different ways which would be difficult for me to handle as a Corps Member. I had to choose among others which resulted in drilling a manual borehole in the street.
“In this area, drinking of untreated well water is so paramount and people who partake in this mostly have some health implications in which I am a practical living witness.”
On his part, the Chairman of Ise-Orun Local Government Area, Honourable Akinluyi Ayo vowed to grade a road from the junction to the location of the borehole to enable residents to have free access to the project.
To this end, Hannah expressed her appreciation to Venerable Ebenezer Tope Babalola, the Clergyman of St Mark’s Anglican Church, Ise Ekiti, for his extraordinary support to the project.
She equally extended gratitude to Professor Lawrence Kolawole, The Local Government Inspector, Omoniyi Oladimeji, the entire body of St Mark’s Anglican Church, Host Community, Place of primary assignment, the national Association of Private Schools, Private Hospitals, other Churches and Oba Dr. David Adetunji Ajayi Aweloye II, The Arinjale of Ise Kingdom, who provided a piece of land for the project.
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