COVID-19 Lockdown: Nya-etok Storms Ikot Ekpene Community With Relief Materials
By UbongAbasi Ise
The protagonist of social governance, Arc. Ezekiel Nya-Etok, has maintained his philanthropic brand as he sends palliatives to the people of Nsiak community in Ikot Ekpene local government area to help them stay safe at home during this 14 day lockdown ordered by the Akwa Ibom State Government in an attempt to contain the spread of the Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Nyaetok, over the weekend, doled out N10, 000 each to the indigent members of his community through 10 heads of the families.
He also donated food items, hand sanitizers and 40 litres water-tap containers during the COVID-19 awareness session with the people, encouraging them to adhere strictly to social distancing practice.
Addressing the family heads, Arc. Ezekiel Nya-Etok, represented by his Media Consultant, Mr Emmanuel Effiong, urged the heads of each of the families to be fair in choosing who should benefit from the items, with special preference being the widows.
"This is pretty straight forward. We have ten families in the village and I would like to start by giving N10,000 cash, food stuff, or a combination of both to the poorest individuals in each of the ten families.
"I will count on the head of each of the families to be fair to his people in choosing who should benefit. My preference would be the widows," he said.
The candidate of the Young Democratic Party, YDP, in the 2019 gubernatorial election in Akwa Ibom State, told his kinsmen that he is passionate about the well-being of the people, as he believes in practicing what he preaches to the world with an example being his refusal to construct a skycrapper for himself in the village but would chose to build a primary school block for their children to have a conducive learning environment.
On the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic, he called on his people to maintain social distance rule of 1.5m at any location of meeting, while advising everybody to see others as suspects because the virus is not visibly written on the face.
Arc. Ezekiel Nya-etok also urged his kinsmen to maintain personal hygiene by washing their hands regularly with running water and soap, avoid hand shake as well as dirty hands contact with the face.
The awareness campaign session which was interactive, witnessed little Miss Perpatual Daniel reciting the preventive rules against Corona Virus disease.
Goodwill messages were acknowledged from the community leaders who called on the state government, including other prominent individuals in the state to emulate Arc. Ezekiel Nya-Etok.
On his part, the Village Chairman of Nsiak Community, Mr. Aniefon Edet, called on his people to adhere to all the precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the virus.
Similarly, the Village Youth President, Comrade Ifiok Akpan thanked Arc. Nya-Etok for what he has done to Nsiak community and appealed to the Government through Nya-Etok to deliver more food items and preventive materials within the period to assist the community.
According to him,"Our Youth were mainly surviving on daily paid menial job. Now that the situation is like this, the crime rate may escalate if support is not given to the youth", he said.
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