Daily Champion (Lagos)
Tom Moses
2 November 2009
Calabar — At least, 50 abandoned children have been rehabilitated and given a safe home by the wife of the Cross River State governor, Obioma Liyel Imoke.
The children's home known as Destiny Child Center located in Calabar -South Local Government Area(LGA) was constructed in line with Mrs. Liyel Imoke's promise to rehabilitate children who were abandoned by their family members for certain inexplicable reasons.
The children comprising of 40 boys and ten girls and between the ages of six and sixteen, were identified to come from the Akwa Ibom, Abia State, Cross River and The Republic of Cameroonian.
Inspecting the new home after admitting the children, the state governor, Senator Liyel Imoke advised them to be of good behavior.
He frowned at some parents' callous and careless attitude towards their children even as he expressed optimism that most of them would become enviable personalities in the near future.
It would be recalled that prior to the provision of the home, the children had been under the direct care of Mrs. Obioma Liyel Imoke Obioma Liyel after they were picked from the streets where they were abandoned by their parents.
Upon picking the abandoned children, Obioma promised to give them a sense of belonging and give them parental care and educational training to levels required of them.
Speaking, the commissioner for Social welfare, Mrs. Edak Iwuchukwu lauded the project and assured that government would continue to sustain it.
Also speaking, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Edet Ikpi, stressed the need for constant counseling of the children by psychologists so as to ensure their balanced psychology and to check complex problems.
The rehabilitation exercise featured consecration of the new home, registration, distribution of clothing materials, toiletries, interactive session with the governor and his wife among others.
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