Bashir Opaluwa Idris
Kogi State House of Assembly has commended the Nigerian Army for her timely support to the health care delivery system in Oziokutu, Adavi Local Government Area.
In a motion of urgent public importance moved by the lawmaker representing Adavi State Constituency, Mr. Asema Baba Haruna on the floor of the House, said the Nigerian Army through the Special Intervention Civil Military Cooperation Projects authorized its Deputy Chief of Policy and Plans, Major General Usman Otaru to execute a massive project in Kogi State.
According to him, the Ozi-Okutu Hospital which was established in 1982 by the former Governor of Kwara State, Late Alhaji Adamu Attah for the purpose of providing and promoting quality health care delivery services to the people of Oziokutu and it environs got inevitably exposed to dilapidation after decades of operation.
The lawmaker noted that the Deputy Chief of Policy and Plans of the Nigerian Army who is a patriotic son of the soil, concerned by the negative impact of the dilapidation of the facility considered it necessary to revamp the glory of the Hospital by renovating the structures, building new ones and replacing the obsolete equipment with modern ones.
“The Rt Hon Speaker sir, my respected colleagues, the thought to revamp the glory of the Hospital by this Ebira Gen, Major Gen Usman Otaru was not only an idea conceived, but the one matched with action seen in a well planned and fully executed project through Chief of Army Staff Special Intervention Program in Primary Health Care to the glory of God and service to humanity”.
Asema appreciated Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo for his leadership roles at the commissioning of the New Edifice and Renovated structures at Oziokutu Hospital in Adavi Local Government Area.
“My esteemed colleagues, on the 8th day of October, 2024, Oziokutu community in Adavi Local Government of Kogi State played host to the Army Headquarters, Abuja for the commissioning ceremony of the Health facility under the chairmanship of His Excellency, Alh Usman Ahmed Ododo, the Executive Governor of Kogi State who in his usual pragmatism, provided a fertile ground for a successful commissioning ceremony of the structures made up of a newly built Complex, Renovated/furnished Wards, New Borehole with Overhead Tank for the supply of water, and Renovated Laboratory with modern equipment”.
The lawmaker also commended the Deputy Chief of Policy and Plans of the Nigerian Army, Major General Usman Otaru for facilitating a new Oziokutu Hospital among other selfless service to Oziokutu community in Adavi Local Government.
Seconding the motion, the member representing Dekina Biraidu State Constituency, Usman Ochidi appreciated Major General Usman Otaru for facilitating the Hospital project for health care delivery system.
While aligning herself with the motion, the Deputy Speaker and member Representing Ibaji State Constituency, Comfort Unwuchola Egwuaba commended the Nigerian Army for the timely support to the Health Care delivery system and appealed for extension of the project to Ibaji Local Government.
In his submission, the Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Aliyu Umar Yusuf thanked Major General Usman Otaru for giving back to the society.
