A key stakeholder in the programmes and workshops of the Abia State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Eze Innocent Adiele Nwaigwe has described the recently organized National Traditional and Religious Leaders’ summit as a remarkable step forward towards building a healthier and more prosperous nation.
Eze Nwaigwe who is the traditional ruler of Okaiuga Alike autonomous community and Chairman Umuahia North Traditional Rulers Council made this known in a chat with newsmen on the sideline of the summit which witnessed the presence of President Bola Tinubu, senior government officials, development partners and eminent traditional rulers in Abuja.
The royal father while noting that Abia State was already implementing some of the resolutions reached at the summit, pointed out that this informed why the state was recognized as the number one performing state in leadership, governance and improvement in primary health care delivery among the South East States.
He identified the plans for commencement of National Advocacy and Awareness Campaign for the National Community Food Bank Programme, a new initiative aimed at addressing child malnutrition, especially among infants and vulnerable children across the country as well as the strengthening of emergency services, including the expansion of emergency transport and ambulance systems to ensure timely access to care far reaching reforms.
On the composition of the summit which had Northern and Southern Traditional Rulers, Eze Nwaigwe called for such fora not to replace the age-long regional bodies such as South East Traditional Rulers Counci either for political, administrative convenience or any other reason at all.
He equally commended Eze Lawrence Agubuzu, the Ogbunechendo of Ezema Olo Kingdom in Enugu State for his complimentary speech which affirmed the earlier position of Umuahia North Traditional rulers that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not a terrorist while appealing to President Tinubu to grant pardon to the crown Prince who is serving a life imprisonment in Sokoto.
