R-L, Commissioner for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, Mr. Oden Ewa, the Veteran Journalist, Chief Sam Arikpo and the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ededem Ani during the visit.
By Anietie Akpan
The Cross River State Commissioner for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, Mr. Oden Ewa, has warned against ignoring the elders and senior citizens in the society.
Ewa who said this during a courtesy visit on a veterinarian journalist, Chief Sam Arikpo in Ugep, Cross River state, early this week, said the elders and senior citizens have seen it all in life and they are the custodians of history and wisdom.
He said, “the idea of ignoring the elders is just like doing away with knowledge, wisdom, experience and their blessings”.
Ewa who was accompanied by his friend and fellow Commissioner, Mr. Ededem Ani, the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, said he likes to interact with elders and senior citizens “to learn from their experience, get to know about the past inorder to know where one is heading to as a young man”.
He charged the young ones not to ignore or despise but to always respect and take care of their elders and senior citizens as they too will be old one day by the grace of God.
On his part, Chief Arikpo commended the state governor, Prince Bassey Otu, for engaging some of these very enlightened, humble, respectful and hardworking young men in government.
He stated that “a lot of them are showing signs of the determination to succeed in their various areas of engagements thus taking the state to where it should be rather than engaging in deception and looting the state dry”.
He prayed that, “may the good Lord guide, direct and equip them with the right spirit and the wherewithal to serve the people of this great state aright”.
