The wife of the Deputy Senate President Mrs. Nwaneka Ekweremadu has called on Ministries, Departments, Agencies, corporate bodies and individuals to help the nation by providing for the needy and the poor while urging the latter not to see such gestures as national cake.
Speaking at the presentation of working tools to 50 widows at the Tourism Village, Abuja, Mrs. Ekwerenmadu said the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation has shown courage by extending hands of compassion to the needy.
The occasion which was part of activities to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of NTDC and this year’s World Tourism Day which has as its theme, “Tourism & Sustainable Energy: Powering Sustainable Development”.
Mrs. Ekwerenmadu also urged the recipients to see the working tools as a great gift for them to work and earn a living and not as the distribution of national cake.
Speaking further, she appreciated the NTDC Director-General Otunba Olusegun Runsewe for the courageous move saying it was not easy to give. In her words, “by doing little things, we arrive at doing great things.”
She also used the medium to appeal to other MDAs, corporate bodies, private organizations and philanthropists to emulate the NTDC gesture while advising the beneficiaries to use the items judiciously.
The items distributed to the widows who cut across the 36 states of the federation include sewing machines, grinding machines and a token which the Director-General of NTDC, Otunba Runsewe described as seed money for them to start small scale businesses.
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