Parents Forum to confer Ambassador of Welfare on Gov Nwifuru
Chinedu Nwafor, Abakaliki
Nigeria Parents Forum has nominated Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru of Ebonyi State as the Welfare Ambassador of Nigerian Parents for his creative welfare programmes.
The Forum said Governor Nwifuru’s welfare programmes which had improved the quality of lives and increased life expectancy in Ebonyi State.
The Forum disclosed this to Journalists in Abuja at the end of the group’s summit on the states of the nation in the aftermath of fuel subsidy withdrawal.
The National Coordinator of Nigeria Parents Forum, Mr. Monday Eze, announced that after a critical review of the welfare programmes of the 36 state governors, Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State came tops.
“Nigeria Parents Forum commends the governor of Ebonyi State, Chief Francis Nwifuru, for his transparent and impactful welfare programmes in Ebonyi State. Nwifuru’s administration paid arrears of gratuities and pensions which piled up since 1996, salaries and special allowances to workers; scholarship grants to students and business start-ups to Ebonyi youths without regard to political or religious affiliations. His tax waivers to small-scale businesses, concrete road projects and overhaul of the health and education sectors are heartwarming. These have increased life expectancy and doused economic tension to the extent that nobody is talking about protest or calling out President Tinubu in Ebonyi State.
“Governor Nwifuru has been elected the Welfare Ambassador of Nigeria Parents Forum. The forum charges other governors to emulate Governor Francis Nwifuru by investing the fuel subsidy windfall into the welfare of their citizens to give them hope. Leadership is a collective venture and President Tinubu alone cannot solve all the problems of the country. Every governor, minister, council chairman and commissioner owes his constituents a duty to improve the quality of the lives of his or her people,”Mr Eze said.
The Forum further disclosed that the Welfare Ambassador honour would be confered on Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru at a later date.
