ENGR. OLAKUNLE ONAJIN MAKES UNCOMMON IMPACTS ON OBA-ILE COMMUNITY
…REFURBISHED OBA-ILE HEALTH CENTRE,
…SANITIZED MOTHERLESS HOME
…SANITIZED PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL
…EMPOWERED ARTISANS, OTHERS
Engr. Olakunle Onajin an indigene of Ondo City who is living in Akure, Ondo State capital has been described as a rare philanthropist who derives pleasure in putting smiles on the faces of people and contributing to the society.
Onajin who is a retired structural Engineer has earned himself good names in Ondo State and Nigeria at large because of his selfless contributions to humanity.
Some of his numerous contributions to the society captured the attention of the Democrat News Magazine, a leading news medium in Nigeria.
Our reporter gathered that Engr. Olakunle Onajin has penchant for community development and service to humanity from his childhood which translated to many praise worthy impacts he made on individuals and the society at large with no string attached to it.
He has been maintaining the Public Bus Stop in Oba-Ile for about two years now, refurbished Oba-Ile Health Centre and supplied them with disposable hand gloves, Nose Masks, two street lamps and iron poles with strings for easy spread of patients clothes.
Engr. Onajin whose life has taught many people lessons on giving back to the society, on his birthday mobilized workers to work at Ondo State Motherless Home for two weeks and fumigated the compound against snakes and other dangerous reptiles.
Apart from touching the lives of public institutions, like health Centre, Bus Stop, Motherless Home, and so on, he also extended his love gestures to some individuals within and outside his environment.
Some of such people are, Alh. Abdul Edun, a welder who benefited refurbishment of Generator of about N150,000 and a man who received complete car wash modern tools from Engr. Onajin and many others.
While speaking with journalists in Akure recently, Engr. Olakunle Onajin made known the rationale behind his unquenchable love toward humanity and the society.
According to him: “My father died when I was 6 going to 7 years old, I was the last born in the family of 9 children and my brothers and sisters showered love on me. As I was growing up I sat down, how do I reciprocate this love? And decided to transfer the love to the society-the handicapped and less privileged and I derived pleasure in making impacts in the community, state and country where I live.
“My first observation was the Bus stop, built by Ondo State Government here in Oba-Ile and I have been taking care of the clearing of the surroundings of the bus stop since January 2020, about 2 years now. I cut the bush around it and fumigate the place regularly. To make St. John Primary School COVID-19 compliant after the closure of schools for about 7 months. I observed that the school was covered in bush and I decided to clean up the school.
“I employed four gardeners that worked consistently in the school for the period of two months from Monday to Saturday. I made sure that I provided food and drinks for them.
“In the same way, I went to Health Centre in Oba-Ile to look at how they are fairing and I observed that the Generator of the Health Centre was faulty and I offered to repair it and I provide 10 litres of fuel to the Health Centre every week.
“I also observed that the Health Centre need refurbishment and I moved workers here to paint and do some renovations and I also asked Matron of the Health Centre, what they have in short supply, and she said hand gloves and I supplied a carton of disposable hand gloves and a carton of Nose Mask.
He also provided strings and iron poles for the Health Centre to enable them to have a decent place to spread the cloth of the patients.
In his words: “Moreover, I observed that the environment of the Health Centre was dark at Night, I provided street lamps, one in the front and another one at the back. These are the little, little things I enjoy doing to the community.
“November 24th was my birthday, and I thought of it that instead of having flamboyant birthday party where people will come and drink and dance on disco floor, I decided to go to Motherless Home to see what I could do to better the lives of the children in the place and to donate some food items and to clean up the environment. Having worked here for 2 week I must say that I am satisfied with the work. We have fumigated and keep the environment healthy. We observed that snakes and other dangerous reptiles in the compound were killed with chemical as we did in St. John’s Anglican Primary School, Oba-Ile, during our work there.
“Being a Rotarian and a member of Élan Club, I love doing service to humanity and even at the Housing where I live, as a past chairman of the Landlord Association I provided speed breakers to the community and I had personal impacts on the security men there especially during the festive period.
Engr. Onajin used the medium to call on all Nigerians to be patriotic and be ready to always make sacrifice for the development of the country saying that they should be of help instead of complaining.
“I want to encourage our brothers and sisters in Nigeria to emulate positive approach to life and I know that God will reward their gestures and the country will know it for good.
COMMENTS OF PEOPLE ON PHILANTHROPIC GESTURES OF ENGR. OLAKUNLE ONAJIN
PRESIDENT OF CUSTOMARY COURT, AND A PUBLIC AFFAIRS ANALYST, MR. YOMI AKINDE
“The price that is most important in life, is loving thought toward mankind particularly that of giving freely. The Gentleman, I meant Engr. Onajin is a rare gem in the present day society, who naturally has a kind and loving spirit of giving freely without looking back, he derives maximum joy in giving back to the society unconditionally.
Lots of people and Organizations both public and private in time past and till now has immensely benefited from his kind gestures, what was quite pleasing about him is that his act of giving is not attached to any motives covertly or overtly unlike many politicians and or individuals who gives when they are eyeing and or having intentions of contesting for a political offices, chieftaincy titles or one positions or the other in an organization or to retain such titles/positions to get support.
The man- Engr. Kunle Onajin is a great apposite inspiration to the society, he was down to earth generous giver I had ever known, very lively and easy to approach. I pray that God Almighty will not only continue to enlarge his coast but also be his refuge, till thy kingdom come O’ Lord.
ALHAJI ABDULLAHI EDUN, BENEFICIARY OF HIS GESTURE
“I thank God for the life of Engr. Onajin. I did not know him from anywhere before now, he usually visits a nearby restaurant to buy food and drinks for his workers where my workshop is located and he saw me about two times when I had issues with the costumers because I was unable to deliver their jobs to time because of power outage in our environment in Oba-Ile.
“While mediating on the matter, he asked me what the problem was? and I told him that the power generator I have had packed-up for a very long time. When he heard that he was moved with compassion and immediately he called Mechanical Engineer to come and inspect the generator.
“Mechanical Engineer looked at it and made recommendation of what to buy and he (Onajin) gave him N70,000 to commence work on the generator, along the line the machine developed another complex fault yet he did not back out until the generator was filled. He spent over N150, 000 to put the generator in proper position.
“Since this intervention of Engr. Onajin, my life has not remain the same. The business has been moving on well since there is no more complain from the customers. I prayed that God will not forsake him and his family members.
“The life of this man (Onajin) should be a lesson for all the well to do people in Nigeria and Africa at large. He is not living for himself alone rather for all and sundry especially the down trodden. I am not the only one that benefited from his philanthropic gestures. There are other men and women. One popular public school in this community he personally took care of it (clear the bush after corona virus holiday).
“All I can say is just to pray for him to live long and to eat the fruit of his labour in good health and peace of mind.”
PTA CHAIRMAN OF ST. JOHN’S PRIMARY SCHOOL, OBA-ILE EVANGELIST AYO OLOLUFE
“I was surprised to seeing an individual like this man, making efforts to helping the society. What he did is not just for one person but for the benefit of all the people in Ondo State. He has been personally maintaining the Bus Stop built by the State Government. He was doing this not because he there is a string attached to it. Not only this school had he extended the grace to, Oba-Ile Maternity and other people were not left out.
“If we have people like him in this country, there wouldn’t be lopsided development people would not suffer the way it is in the society today, whereby the rich people are getting richer and the poor people are getting poorer.
“My prayer for him is that, God will reward him in this world and the world to come. I personally learnt my lesson from his selfless life. I will be very happy if other people can take a cue from him.