UNDEDSS Mourns Alaere Alaibe

The demise of Mrs. Alaere Alaibe, recently deceased wife of NDDC MD, Chief Timi Alaibe, has been described as “a loss not just to her family and the Niger Delta, but a veritable minus to the Nigerian and global humanitarian community” by the United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS), the amalgamation of Niger Delta ethnic nationalities and civil society.

Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Professor Pat Utomi and Mr. Tony Uranta, President and Secretary-General of UNDEDSS expressed dismay at Mrs. Alaibe’s passage, whilst recollecting that, “in her capacity as Founder of the United Nations Award-winning Free Foundation, Alaere Alaibe not only blessed thousands through her very efficacious free adult literacy and primary health programmes offered women and children of the Niger Delta, but partnered with UNDEDSS and other peace-promoting national and international bodies to launch in mid-2008 the ‘From Gun Militancy to Intellectual/Brain Militancy’ campaign aimed at restoring sanity and values to our much-beleaguered region during the commissioning of the Wole Soyinka Library at Opokuma, Bayelsa State, which launching and commissioning were done by Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka”.

The UNDEDSS Executive went on to declare a seven-day mourning-and-prayers period for Mrs. Alaibe, commencing Thursday January 5 to Wednesday January 11, 2009.

Mrs. Alaibe’s body will be flown England, where she passed away whilst undergoing treatment for a life-threatening ailment, into Nigeria via Abuja on Friday morning, to be interred next week Thursday. Further details will be announced by her family.