By Dele Ogbodo
The Chairman, National Planning Committee of the 2019 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration (AFRDC), Major General Edward Chijioke Obi,
has revealed that its visit to the Ministers of Power, Works and Housing is to seek assistance so as to raise funds for the families of fallen heroes involved in the prosecution of the insurgency war.
Chijioke Obi, who was represented by Major Issa Abdulhamid, said the assistance will help alleviate the plights of the families left behind.
In a statement made available by the ministry said the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN, stated that Nigerians will remain ever grateful by remembering the supreme sacrifice paid by our brothers and sister who laid down their lives for the service of our father’s land, Nigeria, in the course of prosecuting the war on insurgency.
He made the disclosure while receiving in audience the National Planning Committee of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration (AFRDC) 2019 who decorated him and also commended him for his immense contributions during the 2018 Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration.
While been decorated alongside the Minister of State 1 for Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Mustapha Baba Shehuri, Fashola noted that the seeming peace which is being enjoyed in Nigeria is as a result of commitment and sacrifices of our fallen heroes who fought gallantly and fearlessly to defend the integrity of our father land.
He however commended the Nigeria Armed Forces for being combatant ready and for exhibiting professionalism at all times.
The Minister maintained that the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration is an important event which should be made more elaborate by calling on all well-meaning Nigerians, friends and well-wishers to contribute generously to an endowment fund that will cater for the families who lost their beloved ones. He also suggested for an improved production and redesigning of the Emblem so as to be more appealing to the eyes while the basics and the fundamental messages remains.