By Sun News Publishing
Monday, July 31, 2006

Under the aegis of “Marwa International Movement”, the five medical doctors from the United States, comprising Dr. Tomi Kadiri, Prof. Aminu Gusau, Dr. Emilia Orubele, Dr. A. Afeez and a Nigerian medical practitioner, Dr. B.A. Akinola, with 12 nurses, attended to over 4,000 patients throughout Friday and Saturday at the palaces of Olowu of Owu, Abeokuta, Alake of Egbaland, Abeokuta, Awujale of Ijebuland at Ijebu-Ode, and the Akarigbo of Remo palace at Sagamu

The medical team, which had performed similar medical services in Adamawa, Edo and Kogi States, with the plan of covering the six geo-political zones in the country, gave anti-hypertensive and antidiabetic medications freely to people, to last them for three months.
They also examined and treated arthritis patients.

In a chat with newsmen, the leader of the delegation, Dr. Tomi Kadiri, said over 6,000 admirers of Brig. Gen. Marwa in the United States of America and United Kingdom, contributed money for the drugs and free treatment of the patients to support the Buba Marwa Foundation that has given scholarship to indigent tertiary education students in the 36 states of Nigeria and has also built classroom blocks and provided water boreholes in equal proportion.

Their decision to support Marwa, he said, was informed by his excellent track record of being an achiever in Borno and Lagos states, coupled with his humanitarian gesture, milk of human kindness and his detribalised mind.

Dr. Kadiri said while treating the people, most of whom were having the experience of their blood pressure being examined for the first time in their life, the team discovered an abnormal case of a 27-year old woman whose blood pressure was 220/180, an aftermath of lack of job after six years of leaving school and failure in akara frying business which she commenced with N3,000.

The woman after being treated, given medication and advised to rest completely for three days was later offered some money by the “Marwa International Movement”, while Olori Abimbola Dosunmu, wife of Oba Adegboyega Dosunmu, the Olowu of Owu, Abeokuta, also provided her with foodstuffs and some new clothings.

Dr. Kadiri enjoined the Nigerian public to pay more attention to being their brothers keeper, as a little amount of just N5,000 can be a source of incentive to embark on a business venture by an unemployed who is willing to work.

A random sample of the beneficiaries of the free medical treatment were full of prayer for Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa and his medical team volunteers, stressing that what the nation requires at the helm of affairs is a young energetic and humanitarian mind with commitment to the welfare of the people like Marwa.