Nigerians charged to help underprivileged

Nigerians have been charged to render financial and material assistance to their compatriots, especially the widows, orphans, fatherless and other underprivileged in the society.

Honourable Justice (Dr.) Adesuyi Olateru-Olagbegi, JP, gave the charge during the inauguration of the Prestigious Oodua Daughters’ Association (PODA), a non-governmental, non-political, non-religious and non-profit organisation, at the Ife Grant Resorts and Industrial Park, in Ile-Ife, Osun State.

Justice Olateru-Olagbegi, who was the guest speaker at the occasion, lauded the founder/president and the members of PODA for thinking of using their resources to cater for the poor and the underprivileged in the society.

He also enjoined the wealthy, the high and mighty in the society to support the worthy causes(s) of PODA so that crimes and other social vices, occasioned by hunger, would be reduced to the barest minimum, if not totally eradicated, in the society.

“Members of PODA are here today to proclaim to the world that they have elected to invest their time, talent and resources in the services of humanity through the instrumentality of PODA.

“They will be feeding the hungry and clothing the naked,” he said.

He charged Nigerians to curb wastage and extravagant lifestyle and use the excesses to take care of the poor.

“What comfort does it give you to be suffering from indigestion owing to too much food in the stomach whilst you see hungry people reduced to bare bones from hunger?” Justice Olateru-Olagbegi asked.

Speaking further, the renowned jurist noted that one does not need to be a millionaire before assisting the poor and hungry.

“If you have ten thousand naira and another person is gravely in need of one thousand naira, give it out,” he said, adding that “if you do not have that kind of disposition when you are a ‘thousand-naire’, you will not have it when you become a millionaire.”

In his own remarks, the chairman of the occasion, a renowned academic and former vice-chancellor of Atiba University, Oyo, Professor Sola Ehindero, lauded the foresight of members of PODA and charged them to continue doing good to people.

He added that their actions in clothing the naked and feeding the hungry are more than physical evangelism, emphasising that God always rewards, in multiple folds, any act of kindness done to enhance the quality of life and the living standards of His creatures.

While welcoming people to the inauguration, the founder and president of PODA, Princess Dr. Omolara Olarewaju, stated that the ‘birth’ of the Prestigious Oodua Daughters Association (PODA) was a divine instruction with the main aim of helping the disadvantaged, indigent girl children, widows and orphans within the societies and across the South-West geopolitical zone of the country.

Dr Olarewaju, who solicited assistance from people of means to enrich the purse of PODA in order to cater for the needy and vulnerable, said that if the government fails in its obligation to the people, particularly in the area of welfare, believers in God ought not to fail.

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