A social association, Unique Fellows All Nations Club, has donated food and household items to inmates at the Nigerian Correctional Service, Awka Custodial Centre to give them a sense of belonging.
The donation is part of its social responsibility of improving the living standards of the people especially the down trodden.
Correspondent Daniel Ezeigwe reports that presenting the gifts to the management of the centre, the Mayor, Unique Fellows All Nations Club, Professor Francis Enemuoh said that such visits have become regular on the club’s activities, as those held in correctional facilities are also humans who should be shown love despite their challenges.
Professor Enemuoh also said that the club has a guiding objective to share with people, especially the downtrodden, in both their joy and sorrows, adding that the group was embarking on the visit in fulfilment of Jesus Christ’s biblical injunction of reaching out to those in captivity.
The Deputy Comptroller of Correctional centre, Mr Harry Okonkwo, who received the gifts, thanked the club for the charitable gesture, and for identifying with the inmates at the centre.
A onetime Mayor of the club, Mr Sam Mmadike called on the government to make correctional centres across the country more reformatory where the inmates will learn various skills that they could fall back on when they rejoin the society.
In a remark a legal practitioner and member of the club Mr Gabriel Moneke who said that the visit was part of activities lined up to mark the installation of the sixth Mayor of the club slated for this Saturday called for the provision of adequate facilities in the correctional centres, in addition to giving the inmates skills acquisition that will make them to become self-reliant on re-gaining freedom.
Mr Moneke assured the officers of the correctional centre of the support of the unique fellows all Nations in improving some of the facilities in the centre.
Other members of the club including Mr Kingsley Ezeibe, who is the Deputy Mayor, and a university teacher Professor Ikenna Alumona also joined in the visit.
The President of the Rotary club of Awka Nnamdi Azikiwe University Mr Abuchi Nwozor was also part of the visit.
One of the inmates from Delta State prayed God to replenish the pocket of their visitors
Clothing materials and gallons of paint produced by the in mates were later displayed during the visit
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