ABUJA \u2013 {Nigerians deployed to Rwanda for volunteers services under the Federal Government\u2019s Technical Aid Corps (TAC) programme have pledged to use their experience to help rebuild the war-torn country. {}} <\/p>\n
The volunteers, 19 of them, spoke in separate interview with newsmen in Abuja, shortly before their departure to Rwanda. They said that Nigeria, as the \u201cgiant of Africa\u201d, had a lot to offer Rwanda. The volunteers also pledged to project the Nigeria\u2019s image positively as the country\u2019s ambassadors while in Rwanda. <\/p>\n
Dr Izeubokun Uwaibi, a medical doctor, said she would bring her wealth of experience to bear in Rwanda\u2019s health sector. \u201cI am very glad to have been given this great opportunity to be able to serve my country, even though I\u2019m going to help my country to help enrich another country in Africa, because we know Africa, we are all one, one brother, one family. \u201cI have a lot of knowledge from Nigeria that I can impact on the people of Rwanda. I am very happy about the experience and the opportunity. \u201cAs a medical doctor, I will also bring the knowledge they gave me here in Nigeria that will help enrich their Ministry of Health and their public health at large, because I\u2019m really concerned about the public health.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike the way Nigeria handled Ebola, we handled it very well and with that kind of knowledge and the zeal with which we handled it, it has also given me an insight to the fact that the way you go about taking things or handling things matters a lot. \u201cAnd we should always be prepared at any point in time to handle any emergency no matter how grave it is. \u201cWith all that knowledge, we will be able to move the health system in Rwanda forward. We will also be able to bring up their youth to have interest in medicine.\u201d Another volunteer, Rotimi Akerele, an engineer, who is going to Rwanda as a lecturer, expressed his readiness to impact Rwandans with knowledge. \u201cI am going to Rwanda to go and impact knowledge, I\u2019m going there as an engineer. \u201cI will do my best to bring my country up and to prove that I am from Nigeria and to satisfy my conscience.\u201d Also speaking, Mrs Isoken Elijah, an Accident and Emergency Nurse, said that she would do her best to make Nigeria proud while in Rwanda. \u201cWhether convenient or not, I will do my best to be the best and to make Nigeria proud,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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