No fewer than one hundred residents of Iwaya community have benefited from a medical outreach by the Nigerian Army organised to commemorate the 2024 edition of its Combat Service Support Training Week.


According to the Nigerian Army, the outreach is part of the army’s Corporate Social Responsibility to strengthen the relationship between the army and the host community.


Chief Of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja said the Nigerian Army carried out several activities as part of its civic military operations to foster a healthy relationship in the civil populace.
Lagbaja said one of such events is the medical outreach which is carried out periodically to give back to the populace while improving their medical well being.
According to him, the medical outreach was important to the Nigerian Army in its drive to develop human capacity in communities.
He encouraged the beneficiaries to take advantage of the opportunity to check their blood pressure, treat malaria and other prevalent medical challenges that the outreach is intended to address.
Lagbaja who spoke through Commander, Corps of Engineers, Major-General Philip Eromosele said the medical outreach heralds the beginning of the Combat Service Support Training Week.
He thanked the Yaba Local Government Development Area, traditional rulers and members of Iwaya community for the trust and confidence they had in the Nigerian Army.
According to him, events like this are routine in the army as efforts to promote civic military cooperation to give to the populace and foster cordial relationship in the community.
In his words, this enables the army to get the needed support from the people in order to do our jobs much more better, and continue to identify communities in need and render as much assistance that the army can in support of the communities.
In the same vein, the traditional ruler or Iwaya Yaba Kingdom, Oba Sulaiman Ogun-Oloko, appreciated the Nigerian Army for the wonderful gesture to the community.
Ogun-Oloko said the primary duty of the Nigerian Army was to protect the sovereignty of Nigerian space but that they also brought succour to the sufferings of Nigerians through their CSR.
He appreciated the Nigerian Army for the programme and thank the army for remembering their kingdom for the medical outreach.
The two physically challenged people, Ganui Qadir and Shedrack Hunsa got a wheel chair each during the outreach.
Several other people got eye glasses and tablets for the treatment of malaria fever and typhoid fever, among other illnesses.