The death has occurred of Mrs Eleyi Lilian Aboje-Alleh. Until her death, she was the Director-General, Services and Administration, (DGSA) of Ohinmini Local Government of Benue State in central Nigeria since 2019. She is leaving behind her husband, Barrister Okpeh Alleh, a Principal Assistant Registrar with the University of Abuja, her daughter, Obiye Alleh and son, Otela Alleh.
Mother and children in a previous picture
Her two children are coming to grips with the loss, saying ‘Mommy, while we try to adjust here, we know that when the trumpet sounds, you must have prepared for a family dinner where we will party for ever. Daddy told us that where you are now, there is no insulin again, no drips, no pain and above all, no fake men of god who will sell healings’.
The late Mrs Alleh has had a very turbulent career in the Local Government system in Benue State, her marriage to someone outside her local government used against her promotion and appointment several times, especially appointment as DGSA. In the end, a comment that she was confronting diabetes and could not be appointed a DGSA gave her the appointment because such a comment on a fellow human being infuriated even the authority which ordered that her letter of appointment be written and delivered to her. That still came after she was interviewed, a practice completely against the norms in appointing DGSAs. But even then, she was posted to Oju Local Government Area as Clerk of the Local Government Parliament.
Intervention understands that she was the only DGSA of the 23 local Government Areas of Benue State for the first one year of her appointment, earning her the sobriquet, “the mother of DGSAs”. For the two years that she served as the DGSA, she found herself in Ogbadibo, Ohinmini, Oju and Obi Local Government Areas, answering the final call from the last one.
Mrs Alleh who hails from Agadagba in Ohinmini LGA attended the Upu Community Secondary School, Otukpo; Benue Polytechnic, Ugbokolo and the University of Jos where she obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration. Interestingly answering her maiden name – Eleyi – throughout her career, she married her husband in December 1994.
