ASABA-The Wife of the
Delta State Governor, Mrs Edith Okowa, has stressed on the need for parents
especially mothers to ensure right nutrition is given to their children/wards.
Speaking shortly after
her investiture as the state’s nutrition champion by the United Nations
Children Fund, UNICEF at the launching of the Scaling Up Nutrition, SUN
Initiative in collaboration with the state government held in Asaba, said, “the
importance of proper nutrition cannot be overemphasized.
She told the state
primary health to educate women on the importance of breast feeding, adding
that “breast feeding is so important especially in the first 100 days of the
child”.
Okowa who is the
founder, O5 Initiative, said the investiture was an additional call on her to
do in the society, saying “I am very careful of what I accept because what you
cannot do, do not accept because I do want anything that is going to hinder me
from meeting with my creator when I am gone”.
Explaining that it
does not cost much money to get the right nutrition, she said; “it will amaze
you that if you do not have enough money to buy meat, cray fish is enough. How
much will it cost you to add vegetables to your meal”?
By Festus Ahon
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