Kunle Adelabu
-Provides free medical tests for 300 residents
The Chairman of Central Development Committee (CDC), Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Pastor Abayomi Adelakun, has launched his foundation – Abayomi Adelakun Footprints, with a comprehensive medical outreach.
The outreach, which provided free tests, eye-glasses and drugs for 300 residents of Ibeshe, took place at the Ibeshe Community Hall, Ibeshe, Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA, on Saturday, April 20, 2024, with the CDC and CDA chieftains in attendance to give their support.
His Royal Majesty, Oba Richard Ogunsanya, the Olubeshe of Ibeshe, who was represented by High Chief Babatunde Ogunyemi, the Aro of Ibeshe, commended the initiative.
Adelakun, who said that community service is a call from God, is a community developer, chartered accountant, and a former General Secretary, Ayegbami CDA in 2008, after which he became CDC Financial Secretary before emerging as the CDC Chairman, a position is his serving for a second term.
Speaking with THE IMPACT about the initiative, he said that the intention of the outreach is to provide medical services for residents in the rural areas.
“We are here today to improve the health of our community people. I decided to have this medical outreach to enable the residents access medical facilities and help them know about their health status”, he said.
“It covers eyes test and distribution of glasses, malaria test, diabetes test, weight and others. The purpose is to make sure that my people are well attended to medically and also to formally launch Adelakun Foundation”, he added.
While stating that the initiative would be sustained, Adelakun also revealed that he intends taking the outreach to other communities.
“After Ibeshe, we are going to another community, Oke Ota, next week where I actually reside. We are targeting over 500 residents and necessary provisions have already been made”, he said.
“By the special grace of God, I intend to sustain the project. Though, as a CDC Chairman, I do not have any salary or budget, but with God on my side, I will sustain it. When I look back on my life, I have every cause to thank God. He actually brought me here for a purpose which is to establish me as a nation”.
While charging the council authority on the need to provide more PHCs facilities and upgrade the existing ones, the CDC Chairman also called for the establishment of a General Hospital in Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA.
“My charge to the council authorities is that they should go and develop the PHCs. There are some of them that lack drugs and other facilities. For example, the PHC here in Ibeshe doesn’t have the facility for blood test. We had to go and buy when we wanted to organize this outreach”, Adelakun said.
“They needed to upgrade some of these health facilities. By now, Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA should be proud to have its own General Hospital, and I know that it is do-able”.
Mr Olabode Bankole, Vice Chairman, Central CDA, Isasi, and an educationist, described the initiative as laudable and a welcome development which must be supported and sustained.
“I came here to check my health status since Adelakun Abayomi is giving free health status opportunities, so, I came here to benefit from it”, he said.
“It is a welcome development and I appreciate the initiative and the initiator’s tenacity. I know that it is not easy to gather all these professionals from different fields and extend this kind and free gesture.
“I can understand what he had gone through to reach this stage; meeting personalities; writing letters and gathering resources. I give it to him and appreciate this gesture”, he said.
Bankole also said that he looks forward to the expansion of the foundation in providing health support for many more residents who cannot afford it.
An elderly man who also benefitted from the Adelakun’s gesture, Pa Ganiu Saka, also commended the initiative.
“I came here to do some tests and l also collected drugs. I thank and appreciate the initiator of this programme. It is a laudable one”, he said.
“I pray that God will give him the capacity to do more”.
