Kunle Adelabu
-Embarks on sanitation in major markets, areas in Ikorodu
-Takes over a child’s secondary education
The Auckland Youth group continued their annual programmes during the week by organizing a medical outreach for elderly people in Ikorodu, on Wednesday, with about 100 people benefiting from the free tests and drugs at the outreach held at Itun – Nla area of Ikorodu.
This is coming after the group distributed school bags to school pupils last Monday.
The initiative, which was organized in conjunction with Auckland Flotilla Limited, was tagged, ‘G.A Free Medical Checkup for Elders in Ikorodu’, and named after a member of the group who was murdered last year, Mr Lateef Idris Adewale.
Auckland Chairman, Mr. Abayomi Akeem, said that the group is giving back to the society, especially to the elderly, through the medical outreach.
“This is one of our initiatives through which we give back to our community. It is a free medical outreach for the elderly people in our society. We are organizing this to support them medically”, he said.
“Embarking on community based activities is our ways of assisting the government and our own community to be better.
“My advice to the community is that our people must take their health seriously. It is important for them to check their health status from time to time”, he charged.
While stating that the initiative will be a continuous one, Mr. Akeem also said that the initiative was meant to immortalize one of their members killed last year.
He thanked members of the group for their support and commitment.
Comrade Pelumi Olalekan, popularly called ‘Rado’, speaking at the medical outreach, commended the Auckland Youth, for giving back to the society through numerous ways.
He urged them to continue the kind gesture and laudable initiative for the community, and also implored all the beneficiaries to pray for the club and their deceased member.
In her remarks, Mrs Lateef Atinuke Simbiat, the widow of the murdered member of the Auckland Youth, thanked the club for not forgetting her late husband, and also commended them for the initiatives and their impacts on the community.
Meanwhile, the group, also during the week, staged the third edition of its community sanitation exercise around the Ikorodu metropolis.
The cleaning exercise started from the Ikorodu Club through Ikorodu Club road, California, Odugate, Orita Famous, Obun Ale, Otunba Nla, Ajina, Ladamos, Ita Elewa, Oriwu road, Aga, Gbasemo, Borokinni and headed back to Ikorodu Club where curtain was drawn on the sanitation exercise.
During the exercise, a young boy, who identified himself as Ayomide, approached the group and solicited their assistant for him to further their education. While the group accepted to registered the boy at Grammar School, Ikorodu, also be responsible for his tuition and other expenses, Mr Lekan Pelumi, a guest of the group, pledged to fund his registration into the school.
For the sanitation exercise, the Auckland Youths were supported by the Lagos State Waste Management Agency (LAWMA) which provided them with sanitation tools and truck to pack the refuse after the cleaning exercise. The occasion also presented residents along the cleaning routes the opportunity to bring out their wastes which were carted away by the truck.
Also, during the exercise, the group paid homage to Iyalode of Ikorodu, Mrs Folake Shokunbi who commended their efforts in making Ikorodu clean, and for contributing meaningfully to the development of the Kingdom.
In the same vein, the Iyaloja of Obun Ale and Ajina also thanked the Auckland Youth for cleaning their markets and offered them prayers.
