Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu has actually harped on the need for enhancement of well-beings of families of the nation’s fallen heroes, as well as continued prayers for their households.

He specified that the nation’s leadership at different levels should put much efforts towards the well-being of service males, in regards to arrangement of equipment and other basic centers.

Governor Ikpeazu, who spoke during the interdenominational church service marking the celebration of 2022 Armed Forces Rememberable Day held at the Wesley Methodist Cathedral in Umuahia, the State capital, kept that the very best method to celebrate the militaries was for the Nigeria leadership to cater for the training and maintenance of their families.

He was represented at the occasion by his Deputy, Rt. Hon Ude Oko Chukwu. He further mentioned that it behoved on parents and stakeholders to do their best to decrease the level of criminality in the society by helping federal government to attend to the menace of controlled substance intake presently on the increase among youths in the nation.

Ikpeazu explained the Armed Forces Remembranance Day as an unique event to remember guys of the Nigerian Armed forces who laid their lives to keep and protect the territorial stability of the country at various battle fields, in addition to thank God for seeing their guys still in service through vital and perilous times across the country.

He called for sustained prayers for God’s sustainence on them, and even more promised that today adminsitration would continue to sustain its well-being packages to members of the Nigerian legion in Abia State. The Most Reverend Raphael Opoko, the Archbishop of Methodist church Nigeria, Umuahia Diocese, while delivering a preaching with the term “Lord provide us Men of nerve like David”, kept that God blessed the nation in its diversity so that the nation can be a powerful and excellent nation.

The Methodist priest appealed that the nation’s leaders need to do more to assuage the pains enjoyed ones were experiencing following the death of their breadwinners, that sacrificed their lives in defence of the nation’s unity, along with ensuring security of lives and residential or commercial property.

In their goodwill messages, the Chief of Staff, representing the Commander, 14 Brigade, Ohafia, Col. R. Agbir and the Chairman, Abia State Chapter of the Nigerian Legion, Commander Ambrose Nnabugwu (Rtd), valued the Abia State Government and the church for their prayers and support to the Armed Forces in lowering the myraid of security challenges across the country.

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