The deputy minority leader and member representing Aninri, Awgu, and Oji-River federal constituency on the 24^th of December paid the hospital fee for a physically challenged girl.

This happened during the event where the Honorable and his wife, Mrs Uche Okechukwu distributed bags of rice, cash gift and Ankara materials to widows and physically challenged.

The young girl who came out to thank the Honorable and his wife for their good work piqued the interest of Mrs Uche Okechukwu due to her age and pitiable condition.

When asked about her condition, the girl’s mother, Iloh Amaka revealed that the girl was born like that and needed the sum of 500 thousand naira for a surgery to be done on her to correct her legs.

Being touched by her story and due to his humanity, the lawmaker who is known for his philanthropic nature and have before now paid WAEC fees for over 600 hundred students, sponsored trainings on hospitality management and aqua culture, sponsored learning tours for students and organized free medical outreach for over 6000 patients each year, decided to gift the woman the sum of 500,000 naira for the young girl’s surgery.

Speaking with UGAMATV, Iloh Amaka revealed that they were invited to the event as they were told that  Okechukwu was celebrating Christmas for widows and disabled, saying “at the end of the program I told her to go and greet Toby and when he saw her he told her that he was going to pay the bill for her surgery.

When asked about the problem with her daughter’s leg, she narrated their plight saying “She have had problem with her legs which is making her not to be able to walk as she can only crawl since she was born”.

Mentioning where they have been in search of solution, she added that “We went to Orthopedic hospital and they did a little surgery for her but it’s still not ok so we went to Calabar and they said they can do it but they required 500,000 and since then I’ve been struggling to raise the money”.

When asked about her husband and how he has been assisting in the girl’s sickness she revealed that “Since I gave birth to her, because he have not paid my bride price he chased me out of the house saying that it’s the problem that came from my family, so my brother asked me to come back and I went back to my father’s house, and the year i came back was the same year my brother died”, she narrated.

Thanking Okechukwu for his kind heartedness, she said, “I thank him for all he has been doing for others and what he did for me. I never expected it but he did it for me. My prayer for Toby is that he will be alive and God will keep blessing him”, she concluded.