The wife of Kwara Governor, Mrs. Omolewa Ahmed, has pledged to offer necessary spiritual and physical assistance to 173 children of Borstal Juvenile Institution in Kwara.
Ahmed made the pledge on Wednesday in Ilorin, while receiving the Controller and Principal of the Borstal institution, Mrs. Folashade Akinwale, who led other management members on a courtesy visit to her office.
Mrs. Ahmed said although the institution is Federal Government owned, it behooves on every well-meaning individual to reach out to the children.
She said that if assistance is not rendered to the 173 children under the care of the institution, people would be creating an unfriendly environment for their own children that they feel they are spending money, time and resources on.
The governor’s wife and a deaconess promised to assist the institution with spiritual guidance from her church, where she ministers.
Earlier in her remark, Principal of the Institution, Mrs. Folashade Akinwale had commended the governor’s wife for her humanitarian and motherly support for the institution.
She described most of the students in the institution as victims of parental neglect, while some were brought for offenses they committed.
Akinwale explained that the aims and objectives of the institution are to rehabilitate these children and set them in the right path, which also involves equipping them so as not to go back to the society as miscreants.
