Dabiri-Erewa Hail’s Gov’s Wife For helping Nigerian stranded abroad
Oru Leonard
The Chairman, Nigerian in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has described the kind gesture of Osun Governor’s wife, Mrs Kafayat Oyetola in rescuing a Nigerian man stranded in Trinidad and Tobago as exceptional patriotism.
Dabiri-Erewa in a statement made available to News Dot Africa, said the humanitarian gesture of Mrs Oyetola to the stranded Nigerian, Mr. Benjamin Sesan Ojo, is patriotic, outstanding and commendable.
“This is an uncommon kind gesture from you. It is a commendable effort and a wonderful humanitarian gesture which must be emulated by other Nigerians’’, Abike said.
Mr Ojo who hails from Ilesa in Osun state has been living in Trinidad and Tobago for 12 years, had no job in the last three years. He had to cater for his six year’s old daughter since the wife died and could not do anything for himself, was brought back through Mrs Oyetola’s NGO, Ileri Oluwa Development Initiative.
Dabiri-Erewa prayed for the development of Mrs Oyetola’s NGO and called on other well-to do Nigerians to come to the plight of other Nigerians in such a distress situation.
It would be recalled that Benjamin Sesan Ojo, a homeless Nigerian man in Trinidad and Tobago and his six-year-old daughter, required help to come back home having lost his wife a year ago and had been sick for three years without a job and means of coming back home.
Mrs Oyetola heard about the man through a viral video and being a humanitarian that had been helping the homeless and psychotic people on the street for over 15 years, she was moved by his plight and decided to help.
“I need help to get home, I don’t have work, I need help to survive till I go back to Nigeria. I am a burden to everybody ,” he stated in the video.
She again applauded Mr Allen Onyema, the Chairman/CEO of Air Peace for evacuating Nigerians back home from xenophobic attacks in South Africa free of charge.
