AAUA Donates 600 Hand Sanitisers to Ondo Govt, Akungba Community against Covid-19

Adekunle Ajasin University,Akungba Akoko(AAUA) has produced and presented 600 bottles of Hand Sanitiser, dozens of bottles of liquid soaps, and scores of hand-washing basins and buckets to the Ondo state government.

The gesture was aimed at supporting the state government in its efforts to combat COVID19.

Receiving the items on behalf of the state government, the commissioner for health ,Dr Wahab Adegbenro charged scientists and researchers in the nation’s tertiary institutions to come up with vaccines against the Corona Virus Disease.

The Commissioner, who commended AAUA for being the first tertiary institution in the state to donate to the government’s Committee on Corvid-19, said the time has come for Nigerian scientists and researchers to prove their mettle by coming up with a vaccine against the disease.

In a remark, the Acting Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Olugbenga Ige, said that the Institution donated the items produced by scientists and researchers in AAUA as part of the Institution’s contributions to the fight against the pandemic.

Prof. Ige added that the sanitizers were produced in tandem with the standard and specifications of the World Health Organisation and had been proven to kill over 98 percent of viruses.

He stated that the University had equally donated some quantities of the sanitisers to its host community, Akungba Akoko.

Prof. Ige, who was accompanied by other Principal Officer of the University, also said that AAUA had equally mounted a sensitization campaign on its campus Radio with the aim of educating its listeners on the Corona Virus pandemic and on how to avoid getting infected.

Speaking at the official launch of the sanitisers and liquid soaps in Akungba on Monday, Prof. Ige had said that any university worth its name should be able to contribute meaningfully to happenings and developments in its immediate communities.

In his words, “Today, AAUA has demonstrated that we are actually a university to be reckoned with. And the implication of this is that Nigerian universities and scientists can deliver if given the right attitude, support and enabling environment.”

He also gave assurances that the sanitisers would be given to members of the University Community as a way of guarding against the spread of the virus.

In his earlier remark, the Dean of Faculty of Science, Prof Felix Akinwumi, who spearheaded the production team, had said the initiative was an upshot of the commitment of the Professor Ige-led management to research development in the University.

He thanked the University for giving the necessary support to the initiative, and appreciated members of the production team for their services to the society.