Image caption: One of the trucks bringing the consignment to Ogbomoso
FEMI ONIRETI AGAIN! Set to gift wheelchairs, crutches to over 120 PLWDs in Ogbomoso
Yinka ADETUNJI
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Mobility to the immotile! Persons Living With Disabilities (PLWDs) will smile on Saturday, April 5, in Ogbomoso, Oyo state, as a philanthropist, Hon Olufemi Onireti, is set to distribute 100 wheelchairs as well as 20 crutches to them, to aid their mobility.
According to a press release he personally signed, he decided on the programme in order to give mobility (to those affected by disabilities in the leg (s)).
The chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said he was always moved by the plight of the PLWDs as it concerns moving from one place to another informing he came up with the idea in order to provide a little succour to them.
“We came up with this initiative, mobility to the immotile, in order to assist our brothers and sisters who are living with disabilities. There are many of our compatriots who are struck with disabilities in their legs. I am always moved by their plight when I see them struggling to move from one place to another.
“We therefore felt let us start with aiding them walk from place to place with greater ease so that they can more easily eke a living for themselves and families. So, this is our own little way of providing succour for them.”
ogbomosoinsightonline.com gathered that in response to an earlier public awareness on the programme close to 100 persons had indicated interest in the movement aids “and so we have names already for the wheelchairs and crutches but we can accommodate more as the number of the items we have on ground are not yet exhausted.”
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In a Facebook post via Olufemi Onireti account on February 6, he stated, “If you are from Ogbomoso or nearby cities and need any of the walking aids or wheelchairs, please, find the attached video below. To make a request, send a text to this number: 08100743555. Be sure to include your name, age, and height. No calls, please! Thank you! Please note that this is absolutely free.”
Onireti, a US-based businessman, is noted for such public-spirited interventions which he does from time to time in different sectors such as education, borehole provision, public infrastructure like road culverts, road patching etc, sports empowerment programmes, health interventions and so on.
