…. Pledges To Stand By The Family
Amgbare Ekaunkumo, Yenagoa
The Bayelsa State Government has sympathised with the family of Chief Matthew Karimu over the death of his wife in Port Harcourt a week ago.
The government has also pledged to support and stand by the family in their difficult and trying moment, occasioned by the passing of Mrs. Obioma Addo Matthew Karimu.
The Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the pledge when he led a 22-man delegation to pay a condolence visit to Chief Karimu in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Wednesday.
Senator Ewhrudjakpo, in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mr Doubara Atasi, explained that the government’s delegation was with the Karimu family to share in their grief and encourage them.
He assured that the State Government would stand shoulder to shoulder with the bereaved family to assuage the painful experiences the demise of Mrs Obioma Karimu has inflicted on them
Senator Ewhrudjakpo underscored the inevitability of death describing it as a route that every mortal must pass through to eternity.
The Deputy Governor, therefore, enjoined Chief Karimu whom he described as a great leader and shining light from Bayelsa West Senatorial District to take solace in the good legacy left behind by his departed dear wife.
His words: “First of all, we are here as a state. We are also here as representatives of the Bayelsa West Senatorial District — the senatorial district in which you are a major leader and one of the lights we have there.
“All our senatorial leaders are aware that we here today. We have this consciousness that if it were by man’s strength or effort alone, you could have been the first governor to emerge from Bayelsa West.
“We are here on a solemn visit. More often than not, we expect God to do things our own way, but God’s ways are not our ways as the book of Isaiah tells us in the Bible.
” There is no how somebody lived long that if he or she died, that people would not be sorrowful over the person’s death, even if the person lived for 120 years on earth.
“That is why the state is here to condole with you on this very unfortunate, yet inevitable event. We are here to encourage you and to let you know that the whole Bayelsa is standing by you, and the whole Bayelsa West is with you.”
Responding, Chief Matthew Karimu, an indigene of Adagbabiri in Sagbama Local Government Area, thanked Senator Ewhrudjakpo and other members of the delegation for the condolence visit.
According to Chief Karimu, the Deputy Governor had made the state and particularly Bayelsa West proud by exhibiting a high level of maturity, leadership and integrity.
He added that God had placed a divine responsibility on the shoulders of the Deputy Governor and therefore charged him to galvanize and reposition the senatorial district for greatness.
The late Mrs Obioma Addo Matthew Karimu died on the 4th of August after a protracted illness.
The delegation had some top politicians and House of Assembly members from Bayelsa West including, Hon. Salo Adikumo, Hon. Godbless Oyinke, Hon. Braboke Stanley, and Hon. Fyneman Wilson.
Other stakeholders of the Senatorial District on the condolence visit included Chief Torpedo Amananagha, Chief Kemi Prefa, Chief O.O. Osusu, and Hon. Michael Magbisa.
