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| Mr Ugbaja. PG Inoma Atakor |
Recently, ostareze.com related an incriminating report about the Commissioner for Health by Maazi Oderaa to a Moral crusader, Aisha Edward, and following is her reaction to it:
"My attention was drawn to a publication questioning the integrity of the Anambra state commissioner for health which I perceive is one sided and not balanced. Let it be known that a week before the general election, I interviewed Mr Patrick Ugbaja, PG of INOMA Atakor community. He confirmed that the cholera outbreak was disastrous and claimed lives, he confirmed that the Commisioner for Health replied promptly to the S.O.S call. The United Nations, he added, was also present. He said the commissioner came personally to the community with some medical personnel and that Rev. Fr Mbaka sent trailers of satchet water to them. This debunks the assertion made by the libelous publication that the commissioner sent satchet waters without label to the INOMA Atakor community. Is the writer suggesting that Fr. Mbaka's water is unlabelled. If the writer has an issue with the wife of the commissioner for health, he should have dealt with it directly right there in OKO Polytechnic. I have been displeased with the publication that is bound to open up fresh wounds in the hearts of the INOMA Atakor families who lost their loved ones in the unfortunate incident. People should stop politicising such things and the unnamed individual who went reportedly complained to Maazi Oderaa should have laid their complaints to the appropriate quarter or published a press release the proper way.
I am concerned about the scandal because I have an association that has a working relationship with the office of the state health commissioner. And so far we have not been disappointed. Such report would taint the trust people have placed on the state commissioner for health. Consequent upon receiving this nasty report titled ANAMBRA COMMISSIONER FOR HEALTH, HIS DUTIES AND NEGLIGENCE, I called the President General of the Inoma Atakor community to ascertain the authenticity of the report and he replied that all the allegations were false and should be ignored. He rationalized that were the allegations anything to go by, the said stakeholders would have been bold about their identity. He regretted that such publication makes a mess of the effort made by the commission to help his community. He added that he personally wrote a letter of appreciation to the commissioner for health thanking him for doing more than he expected in response to their cry for help. Mr Ugbaja said there were seven hilux vans loaded with drugs and other relief materials the commissioner came with and that the Inoma Atakor community is very grateful to the commissioner for health.
However, I would describe Dr Akabuike, from personal experience, as a soft spoken, calm and collected gentleman. He takes his time to attend to issues and the picture painted by the report that he was reluctant in his response to the event of the cholera outbreak, is not in consonance with the Akabuike I know. On the other hand, I enjoin the wives of commissioners to be wary of the kind of comments they make in public given the sensitive position of their husbands.
To my dear reporter, Mazi Oderaa, I appreciate the effort you are making to expose inconsistencies in governance, but I consider the one sided nature of this report of yours as malicious and evil. I therefore ask that you desist from continuing with intended subsequent unsubstantiated reports as it is having a negative psychological impact on those of us who have a relationship with the office of the commissioner for health. From experience I know that the honourable commissioner keeps an open door policy and would not hesitate to furnish you with all the information you need. Anambra state is a peaceful state, let us help to keep it that way and desist from praise singing, playing to the gallery and negative criticisms." End quote.
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