{"id":80857,"date":"2025-12-26T06:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80857"},"modified":"2025-12-26T06:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:52:47","slug":"ngo-founder-reaffirms-commitment-to-inmates-welfare-seeks-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/26\/ngo-founder-reaffirms-commitment-to-inmates-welfare-seeks-support\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Founder Reaffirms Commitment to Inmates\u2019 Welfare, Seeks Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Founder of City Builders Development and Empowerment Initiative, Mr Daniel Okoro, has reaffirmed his organisation\u2019s commitment to improving the welfare of inmates in correctional centres across Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Okoro made the pledge at his 60th birthday reception, which also marked the NGO\u2019s 12th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>He said the organisation had consistently donated relief materials to custodial facilities in Lagos, Ogun and Ekiti states, among others.<\/p>\n<p>He called on government to put stronger measures in place to cater for inmates, lamenting that many had been abandoned by relatives and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Okoro also appealed to private companies and individuals to support initiatives aimed at addressing inmates\u2019 welfare challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The NGO founder said his passion was inspired by a personal experience of illegal detention 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He identified logistics as a major challenge facing the organisation but expressed optimism that increased stakeholder support would enable it to expand its outreach nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Founder of City Builders Development and Empowerment Initiative, Mr Daniel Okoro, has reaffirmed his organisation\u2019s commitment to improving the welfare of inmates in correctional centres across Nigeria. Okoro made the pledge at his 60th birthday reception, which also marked the NGO\u2019s 12th anniversary. He said the organisation had consistently donated relief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80859,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80857\/revisions\/80859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}