Dr Timothy Ayam is the National Support Co-ordinator of the Leprosy Mission in Nigeria, an NGO that was established as far back as 1920, to provide adequate medical treatment to people affected by leprosy.

January 4, 2010, Governor Ikedi Ohakim addressed a stakeholders’ forum in Owerri where he outlined the measures the state government is taking to combat criminal activities in Imo State.

In our 13 years of marriage, I’ll say God has been faithful to my husband and I. My husband has also been very helpful all the way. He has been the Oil in my soup, the honey in my tea and his commitment to God, as a family man, father and husband is worthy of emulating.

It is sheer selfishness. So, for me, I would say that the issue of putting the militants in camps and paying them money without recourse to rapid socio-economic development of the affected areas is a clear case of pampering criminality. If government says it is granting them amnesty and rehabilitating them, rehabilitation is not about paying allowances.

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in Delta State, through its chairman, Barrister Oghenjabor Ikimi also lent its voice to the Omovie appeal, specifically calling on the governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, as a matter of humanitarian gesture to come to the aid of the victim, “ as same is inconsonance with the provisions of Section 14, subsection 2, paragraph b of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which states that the primary responsibility of government shall be to ensure the welfare and security of its citizenry.”