It was all joy for the residents of Ajasa Community in Agbado/Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State recently. The health centre built by Hon. Femi Adebanjo, a member, Federal House of Representatives, from Alimosho Constituency, was inaugurated.
The storey building has seven rooms/wards, a consulting room, an out-patient parlour, five toilets and a store as well as the doctor’s office. It has two access culverts with drainage.
Inaugurating the cetre, Hon. Adebanjo said he was moved to build the centre because there was none in community, and most of the people who came to him for assistance had health challenges.
He said Ajasa community readily showed interest at first approach. The Oba of Ajasa immediately allocated a piece of land for the centre and encouraged him throughout the building period.
“My poor background from a rural area devoid of this facility for a long time fired my philanthropic tendencies. It has been my innate resolve to help the less privileged with my God given opportunities and resources,” the lawmaker said. On why he named the centre after the Governor of Osun State, Adebanjo said Governor Rauf Aregbesola was fond of doing good things. “he is a symbol of philanthropy and good will. Oranmiyan loves people, is very hard working and a socialite that fears God. He is worthy to be emulated because he has people constantly on his mind. He has demonstrated that he is actually the symbol of the young, the old, the rich and the less-privileged in Alimosho. That is why I dedicated this project to him and named it after him – Rauf Aregbesola Health Centre, Ajasa.
Adebanjo appreciated a youth Corps member, Miss Esther Adeyanju, from Edo State, who he said initiated the idea, and brought it to him.
Adeyanju said she served at the Command Secondary School as assistant librarian.
“I served in this community in 2011/12. I used to move round the community and got to know that their desire was to get a health centre because of the stress they go through to obtain medicare in far away places, such as the General Hospital, Ile-Epo. I brought the idea to the Oba and Hon Adebanjo. They keyed into it. The Oba gave the land while the Honourable built the centre. The achievement of today is commendable. I give God the glory,” she said.
Yeye Otunba Bamidele Ologun, owner of Raban Event Centre, expressed satisfaction with the centre, saying mothers in the community would be relieved because they could easily access health care 24/7 for themselves, their children including family planning. “I and my husband are happy to identify with Hon Adebanjo because he is ever helping people in the community. He is into great development of this community. We appreciate him and wish him well in all his future aspirations,’’she said.
The event was graced by representatives of Hausa and Ibo communities. Representative of Governor Aregbesola Hon. Ade Ipaye chaired the event. Lagos Commissioner for Women Affairs Hon Uzamat Akingbile-Yusuf represented Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.
Other dignitaries included the Olojota of Ojota, Oba Adewale Cole, Alajasa of Ajasa, Oba Sule Odualabu, Olu of Meiran Land, Oba Awoniyi Oroja, Leader, All Progressives Congress (APC), Alimoso, Solomon Ogundola, former member, Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Yemi Adedeji, and Organising Secretary, APC, Lagos, Alhaji Abdullahi Enilolobo, among others.
By: Oyeyemi Gbenga-Mustapha
The Nation News
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