Mrs Titi Abubakar, wife of former Vice President and 2023
presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has
lamented neglect by Nigerians, saying they have refused to support her pet
project, Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation, WOTCLEF,
just because she’s married to the politician and business tycoon.
She, however, vowed never to be deterred by the
development,saying she was determined in her efforts to see complete
eradication of twin evils of women trafficking and child labour across the
globe.
Mrs Abubakar revealed that she had been running the affairs
of the foundation she created some 24 years ago with the stipends provided for
her food by her husband.
Titi, in her remarks after being conferred with the Champion
2023 Leadership (Heart of Gold) Award, by Champion Newspapers Limited weekend,
thanked the newspapers for recognising her relentless efforts in the fight
against women trafficking and child labour and according her the award.
She said: “I have been doing this job for 24 years and nobody
has ever recognised me. They have not called me for recognition and I said to
myself that I’m just doing God’s work, that my reward is in heaven.
“There was a day I put an advert in the newspaper that these
children I’m taking care of are not my children but Nigerian children, that
even if it is one Penny, they should all contribute and still nobody
contributed anything.
”They said after all, I’m Atiku’s wife. It is one thing to
be married to Atiku and it is another thing to have the passion to do what I’m
doing. And because I have passion for what I am doing, I will continue to
strive.
“When I was in the Villa, I was feeding these children with
government’s food and out of government, I’m still taking care of these
children.”
She thanked those working in the foundation, saying they had
stood by her, even as she didn’t have so much money for them.
“I have been carrying
this crusade for so many years. These people you see working with me, I don’t
have so much money to give them but they are working.”
Continuing, she said:” I thank you all for coming,
especially those that donated, because I have been doing all these for years
with my food, money, the stipend my husband is giving me and I’m happy to do it
because I’m serving humanity.”
She hailed the organisers for not only recognising her good
work but also choosing to give her the coveted award
“It is my utmost pleasure and delight to be here today as a
recipient of Champion Newspapers’ Leadership Award. I am the champion of
champions today. Champion Newspaper, you are the only one that brought me out
to come into a gathering like this and for people to donate to my cause and to
the Nigerian cause because these children are not my children and they are all
over the country.
“It is my utmost pleasure and delight to be here today as a
recipient of Champion Newspapers’ Leadership Award 2023, being conferred on me
today in recognition of my relentless fight against the twin evils of human
trafficking and child labour,” she added.
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