THE member representing the Oshimili South State Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Bridget Anyafulu has promised to enroll market women, small holder farmers and stakeholders in the Constituency into the Delta State Contributory Health Scheme (DSCHS).
Hon Anyafulu, made this known in Asaba when she hanged out with Journalists at the Press Centre of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council, recently.
The lawmaker, who heads the House Committee on Housing, Women Affairs, Humanitarian Services and Girl-Child Empowerment, said she picked interest in the healthcare of the women and farmers because of their key roles in the well-being of the populace.
She noted that these categories of her constituents hardly had time to take care of their health needs hence the decision to enroll them in the Contributory Health Scheme to encourage them to access healthcare services at no cost.
Hon. Anyafulu told her hosts that as part of efforts to promote the reading culture, a quiz competition and debate had been organized for primary and secondary schools in Oshimili South, which also aimed at building the intellectual capacity of the younger generation.
The legislator said the programmes were successfully floated with the collaboration of critical stakeholders in the education sector at the state and local government levels.
She specially thanked the teachers for the onerous task of imparting knowledge from the cradle, saying that without them there would have been no civilization and development after creation.
Hon. Anyafulu frowned at the influx of beggars to Asaba from across the Niger, especially those using children to perfect their begging business, revealing that she had taken steps to check the trend, but needed the intervention of the State Ministry of Women Affairs to evacuate the beggars from the Ogbeogonogo market axis, Ibusa junction and other locations in Asaba.
