The body of Mrs Alaere Alaibe arrived Nnamdi Azikiwe International on Friday morning aboard a British Airways plane, and was received by a large crowd of mourners. Sympathisers included former Deputy President of the Senate, Ibrahim Mantu, former Speaker of the House, Austin Opara, former Transportation Minister, Abiye Sekibo among others.
Alaere's body was subsequently airlifted from Abuja to Port Harcourt later on Friday and met by large crowd of grief-stricken sympathizers and well-wishers at the Port Harcourt Airforce Base. Most of the sympathisers could not hold back the tears as it dawned on them that Alaere was really gone. Bayelsa women groups and a large number of Alaere's close friends and associates and dignitaries associated with her husband, the Managing Drector of the NDDC, Mr. Timi Alaibe, lined up the tarmac to pay their respects to their beloved friend who succumbed to cancer in a London hospital. The body was quickly transferred to a waiting ambulance which was driven to a private hospital mortuary in Port Harcourt.
In life she changed the lots of many in the Niger Delta and beyond. She was a true proponent of the Niger Delta component of the President YarAdua's 7-point agenda . In fact she acted way ahead of the pack. Alaere particularly touched the lives of youths and rural women through her projects in the FREE Foundation. Grateful Nigerians burdened by the grief of her premature exit came to pay their respects.
Alaere will be buried at Trofani, her home town in Sagbama local council, after traditional wake keeping at Igbainwari, Opokuma in line with Ijaw culture. Thursday/Friday February 12/13, 2009.
Alaere's body was subsequently airlifted from Abuja to Port Harcourt later on Friday and met by large crowd of grief-stricken sympathizers and well-wishers at the Port Harcourt Airforce Base. Most of the sympathisers could not hold back the tears as it dawned on them that Alaere was really gone. Bayelsa women groups and a large number of Alaere's close friends and associates and dignitaries associated with her husband, the Managing Drector of the NDDC, Mr. Timi Alaibe, lined up the tarmac to pay their respects to their beloved friend who succumbed to cancer in a London hospital. The body was quickly transferred to a waiting ambulance which was driven to a private hospital mortuary in Port Harcourt.
In life she changed the lots of many in the Niger Delta and beyond. She was a true proponent of the Niger Delta component of the President YarAdua's 7-point agenda . In fact she acted way ahead of the pack. Alaere particularly touched the lives of youths and rural women through her projects in the FREE Foundation. Grateful Nigerians burdened by the grief of her premature exit came to pay their respects.
Alaere will be buried at Trofani, her home town in Sagbama local council, after traditional wake keeping at Igbainwari, Opokuma in line with Ijaw culture. Thursday/Friday February 12/13, 2009.
It's one of the mysteries of life that good people don't last long on planet earth. One wonders why this is so. Mrs Alaere Alaibe was a good woman. She was a philanthropist who cared and catered for the most vulnerable section of the society. Her vision as represented in the FREE NGO she set up to give succour to the helpless, hope for the hopeless, was unique in itself. But alas! she is no more.
ReplyDeleteAll we can say is that God knows best. To HIM we commend the husband, relations, friends and the Opokuma/Kolokuma/Trofani communities for comfort and sustenance. Amen.