Date Published: 09/15/09
Prince Tonye Princewill and the Premiere Movie “NNENDA” By Nwaorgu Faustinus Chilee
In our daily life of hustle and bustle we tend to live behind one of the crucial and unprivileged persons that through no fault of their own come into existence. Sometimes these segments of our society find it hard to eat, wear nice cloths and are financially handicapped. The environments where they live most times are besieged by the unwanted visitors, mosquitoes that punctuate their sleep at every interval.
These unfortunate parts of our society also find it difficult either to finance their education or pay hospital bills. These special gift from God but unfortunate aspect of our existence that has not attracted our benevolence and magnanimity is the orphans who have find themselves in our midst but are in most cases abandoned.
Little wonder the Action Congress leaderin Rivers State, Prince Tonye Princewill worked out of his way to identify with the yearnings and aspiration of the orphans by singling himself out for the onerous task to be the prominent sponsor and facilitator of “NNENDA” a Special Movie Premiere and Orphanages Awareness Campaign at the Silverbird Cinemas in Port Harcourt recently.
The event which commenced with a red carpet reception of Prince Tonye Princewill and his entourage witness photo shoots with orphanages.
The movie “NNENDA” watched by over forty audience whom special invitations were given to, which demonstrate Prince Tonye’s generosity, x-rays the touching story of the situation of neglected babies and the uncommon effort made by a sensitive doctor to bring hope, smile and succour to orphans in the face of opposition from the hospital management.
Commenting on the movie, the chief facilitator, Prince Tonye Princewill said: “Even though I am not shy to say that I was deeply touched by the movie even to the point of tears, it might not surprise you to know that many of us have become so hard from looking at our own problems that the problems of others becomes an irrelevance. Many are called and have seen but only few will act.”
Prince Tonye commended the producer of the movie, Adonijah Owiriwa, for his show of concern for the less-privilege by producing the movie touched on the plight of orphans.
In his contribution, Hon. Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Hon. Marcus Ejii who represented Governor Amaechi pledge his support for orphanages.
Speaking on how they proceed from the movie will impact on the orphanages, the Executive Producer; Adonijah Owiriwa said 20% of everything they will make out of the movie will go into orphanage homes. He thanked the chief sponsor and other official sponsors for their support.
High point of the occasion was the presentation of song by the Lifetime Caring Orphanage Home, and fund raising for the orphanages.
Dignitaries at the event include Hon. Marcus Ejii, Hon. Davies Ibiamu former commissioner of Special Duties, Ramsey Noah etc.
Nwaorgu Faustinus Chilee is a Scio-Political commentator writes in from Igboeche, Port Harcourt, Rivers State
