Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of of Mikkey’s Bite Bakery & Confectionaries
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t was literally tears of joy at Oba town of Anambra State as the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of of Mikkey’s Bite Bakery & Confectionaries Chief Mike Molokwu distributed food items to the quarters in Oba as pallatiives to the needy and vulnerable. Grassroots Publishers online reports that the food items comprising bags of rice ,tubers of yam, Indomie noodles and Breads were to cushion the effects of lockdown caused by COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world.
Molokwu said the food items were his widow’s mite to ease the sufferings of his Oba people and others as a result of the lockdown.
Addressing the beneficiaries from the quarters of Oba community, Chief Molokwu said the foundation spent money to make the palliatives available for the vulnerables in the Oba Community.
Molokwu noted that the foundation’s intervention was to assist government in alleviating the sufferings of the people in the lockdown era as government could not do it alone.
He said: “Government is limited in terms of what it can do. Organizations and individuals have roles to play. Communities have people who are blessed and it is time to come to the rescue of our people. It will be very painful for people to die of hunger virus. And you know Doctors can treat patients but they cannot feed them.
“The foundation has made provision for Oba community, others outside this community and has extended it to people in Delta State and other parts of the country,” he said. He maintained that the tension in the land with it’s attendant confusion was enough to put people in distress hence , the Mike Molokwu foundation decided to use food apostolate to cushion the effects on the people.
Molokwu informed that the foundation had distributed same quantity to Ibusa in Oshimili North Local Government of Delta State. He asked people to buy face masks to protect themselves which is not costly since they can buy recharge cards to make calls.
In his comments, the community women leader described it as a thing of joy that God had used an Oba son to come to the rescue of the people. He noted that what the foundation had done was Community Social Responsibility (CSR) and prayed that God would continue to bless the benefactor and Oba community who had produced a son like Mike Molokwu.
“We also pray that God will pursue Coronavirus and its trouble away from us. It will not come close to us or attack our children, ” he said.
He recalled that the Mike Molokwu Foundation had been doing a lot to empower Oba people through scholarships, skill acquisition and other various means of empowerment.
In his goodwill message, the Publisher of Newsbreeze Magazine, Comrade Ike Philip Abiagom described Mike Molokwu’s as God sent to not only Oba community and Anambra State but the entire Nigeria.
Abiagom said the most striking thing in the distribution to Oba and others was that it was not political as there was no name on the rice, asking God to bless the giver and receivers. Molokwu commended Governor Willie Obiano for his swift response to unfolding events on Covid 19, stressing that the proactiveness of the State Central Committee on Managing and Containing the Coronavirus pandemic led by the Governor had helped to check the spread of the virus in the state.
He appreciated the love of God for his state, particularly the people of Oba Town and prayed that the Covid 19 pandemic currently ravaging the world be brought to an end.