The Chief of Staff to the Governor of Cross River State and Chairman of GFO Orim Foundation, Chief (Dr) Martin Orim took out time yesterday to visit the two villages of Ubang Ward: Okiro and Ofambe as a continuation of his Christmas and new year tour around his catchment area.
The tour which was purely a visit to his people to say “thank you for standing by me, merry Christmas and a happy new year” Ubang Ward is made up of three big villages which is Okweriseng. Ofambe and Okiro are villages blessed with a unique gift of language where men speak differently from women.
The two villages came out in their numbers to welcome him with chant of songs and displaying all sorts of print billboards with different inscriptions to show love, acceptibility and support.
In responding to the request made by the people of Okiro on areas of needs in the community, Chief (Dr) Martin Orim who will stop at nothing by providing succour to his people gave out: bags of rice, 500k each to the three churches in the community, 1m to acquire laboratory equipments for the community school and 500k for the Christmas and new year celebration.
The people of Okiro in their prayers bless their own and promise to stand strong behind him in the forth coming elections by ensuring that APC wins from top to bottom.
In Ofambe, Chief (Dr) Martin Orim was welcome with a large crowd of both men, women and youth cheating songs in their different tongues to say welcome.
After words of appreciation from the community chairman, the women rep and youth rep too, the senior Chief and clan head of Ofambe village took turn to bless their son by calling on the ancestral father’s of the Ubang communities to provide him with the Ubang shield.
Chief (Dr) Martin Orim also promise to pay attention to areas of needs within the community. He celebrated the Christmas cum new year with bags of rice and cash.
The climax of the event was the received of defectors from from a limb party call PDP which shows it total collapse in Ofambe Village.
Credit: Abua Romanus
