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Chief Sandra Duru is an exemplary good leader having gone through several maltreatments from EFCC, SSS, POLICE and most especially S.O.N. And she was able to overcome the crises is enough facts that she has the strength even for a political leadership. Truly, people like Chief Sandra Duru, come once in a lifetime. She is selfless, loving, compassionate, kind, generous, and amiable. With a woman like Sandra, the Agunwanyin of Igbo land, the world has been a better place, and history would not be complete without mentioning of her name at least in our generation.    - Funsho Akinwale (Society writer, First Weekly Magazine)

I think you have a heart of gold and giving. I also know that givers never lack. Your project of training the less privileged is definitely not for the sake of money but for humanity. Keep it up. I know it will not be easy but you have been equipped by God.  -  Engr. Donald, National Board of Technical Education (NBTE)

An NGO with less privileged in mind is a good project. It is a legacy that one could give the society. I therefore commend your initiative in this direction.
Besides, to make it sustainable, there could be other auxiliary services that you may wish take along.
Good luck and God bless.    - Joe Onaniyi (08023001226), National Board of Technical Education (NBTE)

A laudable project that is demanding and a worthwhile investment in the right direction. This is a world class project!

Please keep the flag flying, especially for the generation that which you belong to and sustain. More grease to your elbow!   -  David S. Gbenga, Honorary Secretary, Nigerian Hotel and Catering Institute

This is a laudable dream. Bear in mind that nothing good comes easy. But the Lord who allowed you to see life in this light will never leave you mid-way.  -  Ndu U. M., Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja

A laudable project that will eventually stand the test of time for the oncoming generations.
A project that came at a time when Nigerians are desperate.
An opportunity for fellow Nigerians to emulate and propagate. - M. K. Jumene (National Board of Technical Education, NBTE)

Sandra C. Duru is a great woman, an achiever! We worked together on Pre-Adult Affairs Organisation, which she has conceptualized as a project that is truly preparing young people for adulthood. - Amb. Chief Segun Olusola, mni, OFR

She is vast in experience as if she has lived in this life (planet) for ages. She is very articulate, very intelligent, very compassionate, a very passionate person about any issue she decides to take on.

She is also very compassionate like I tried to say, very generous, she is also a very experienced business woman and she is also a no-nonsense woman. I see in her a potential leader for this nation and not just for her business empire, which she has been able to build through days of hard work.

By my own experience and discussion I had with her, she actually deserves what she has achieved so far. Sandra Duru has touched many lives positively.  - Debo Adeniran

Chief Sandra Duru is my boss. She is a go-getter. She is tough, and at the same time very, very nice. She is a mother; she takes time to prepare meals for us as staff, a great motivator and a role model to the young people of Nigerian and all over the world.

She has really impacted my life a lot; she has really motivated me to the best I could be. It is just clear proof that no matter how young you are, age is not an obstacle or barrier. You can achieve whatever you want to achieve in a short while.

Sandra Duru is an epitome of truth and a true leader who will first serve before she’s served; a lion, a mother, a defender of the meek and less privileged. You truly deserve to be called the Great Servant of Our Time (GOST)! Sandra Duru!!!

She is a wonderful person; she is very generous and nice. She always carries everyone along. She is humble. She is someone that believes in young people; she is someone that has passion for young people (including teenagers), and she is ready to do anything to see young people grow beyond where they are. - Staff

She is my daughter, I know her very well. By the special grace of God, she is a good daughter to me and the ministry. I am an evangelist. I preach the gospel.

The bus we are using today was given to the ministry by her. I remember what was written on that bus was “Pre-Adult Affairs Organisation”. It’s not easy to give, I know her as a giver. -Pastor Sunday Udeh (President & Founder, World Evangelical Time Ministries, Inc.)

Chief Sandra Duru is simply an achiever, a role model, an icon of truth. I see her as Nigeria’s Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Johnson, Margaret Tacher, Hillary Clinton, Barroness Lynda Chalker and the rest of the world’s female great achievers.

She’s tough, ambitious, and knows exactly what she wants, even if you call her any name. She has confidence in her ability, and also tough enough to follow through. She is a success.
No matter how rough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, she keeps her sight on the final goal, to win, win, win – and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance. She has a bleeding heart for helping the masses. Yes, she has a tough heart but a tender mind.

She’s a leader, once convinced in a particular course of action is the right one. She has the determination to stick to it and even undaunted when the going gets rough.
Above all, she stands up for what is right, even if she stands alone. Honestly, I respect her.

Chief Sandra Duru, as I know, has the ball rolling in her favour, as I see her to be a focused and determined fellow in achieving her set goals. I’ve also come to know her to being a disciplined, straight-forward, humble and humorous lady with respect and the fear of the Lord, these qualities make her a unique woman.       -  Awoyinka Oluwatoyin Comfort

Chief Sandra Duru makes the frequent use of the word “grooming”. This shows that youth development and potential optimizing is a parcel of her. In every conversation I have had with the chief I always have some truth of life to reminisce on. I reckon that God allows his children at a stage in their life, meet a person like Chief Sandra Duru for the “groom” in life.       - Adebayo Kehinde

The Pre-Adult Affairs Organisation (P.A.A.O.) is a Non-Governmental Organisation devoted to giving and changing the terms of giving out aids and scholarship, thus giving hope to the hopeless.

The body representatives of NANS say that most youths are interactive in politics, are actively participating in State Affairs and matters concerning our National Development. They spoke on corruption, intimidation that youth’s encounter, similar to what the Executive Director of P.A.A.O., Chief Sandra Duru has encountered.

Our fraudulent leaders and their evil cartel set such unconstitutional act and unfair treatment against Chief Sandra Duru, just to kill her dream. These illegal punishments are improper and unjust. We call on the youth to speak out and say, “NO TO OPPRESSION, NO TO VICTIMIZATION, NO TO THOSE WHO WANTS TO DEPRIVE US OF OUT FUTURE.”

The corrupt leaders, though afraid of Sandra Duru, placed the beginning of the unconstitutional and unfair treatments on her at the time she was made a consultant to Standards Organisation of Nigeria (S.O.N.) while she was making sure that all qualities of goods and products imported into the country are not sub-standardized, economically beneficial and of good quality and ensuring that S.O.N. does not focus as a regulatory agency, which has been turned to profit-making agency through extortion of billions of naira from importers in the name of “SONCAP penalty.”

Chief Sandra Duru was called a Prisoner of Conscience because she never gave up even though she was remanded unlawfully in Kirikiri female prison. She was also termed as a true Socialist because she had the interest of the social well-being of individuals at heart.
We, NANS representatives, pledged our support to Chief Sandra Duru because she never relents until justice is done.

We are convinced to liken her character to the kinds of Late Mrs. M. K. O. Kudirat Abiola and Late Chief Gani Fawehinmi in their effort to promote justice and have been jailed by Agencies and Bodies which are meant to promote and protect them. Though, through all their travails and challenges, they were exonerated.

NANS also classified her as a practical person who is relentless in her pursuit of justice while also commending her role through P.A.A.O., which stands for the course of its establishment, to counsel, educate and promote pre-adult education, despite all her travails. This includes paying of school fees of various widows, children, providing scholarship to students in schools.
In conclusion, the Executive Director’s attitude is worthy of emulation.

She possesses all qualities of a real leader – determined and full of purpose to develop her country. We the Nigerian students are proud of her project, PAAO.                                                - National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS)

TestimonialS by some PAAO staff members:
Chief Sandra Duru is a natural person with a large heart. She is a lovely mother, a great person, a goal setter and achiever, a role model. She is a team worker, a philanthropist and a gift to the world. The P.A.A.O. has been effective in alleviating poverty and providing scholarship for the less privileged.     - Biola

Chief S. C. Duru is a role model, who has passion for young people. She is a fearless woman.    -  Ifeayinwa Okeke

She is a Sticker for Standard, a proof that age is not a constraint on success. She is humble, simple but very organized and firm. Chief Sandra Duru is a person of impact and an epitome of great success. - David Ashinze

It’s interesting to find a young woman in this generation to imbibe the thoughts and actions of our Lord Jesus Christ. A vision to take care of the less privilege citizens of this country. She has found those who are hungry, those who are thirsty, and those who go naked… and to all those she now has a plan to meet their needs. I just pray that God in His infinite mercies will see her through and through (Amen).  -  Staff, National Board of Technical Education, NBTE (June, 2010)

 

Remarks by staff and youth members of the Pre-Adult Affairs Organization

Chief Sandra C. Duru is born to create. She is a genius, highly creative and competitive, imaginative, articulate, focused and highly result and achievement oriented in everything she does. She is obstinate and has no apologies for that. For her, fear and failure never have room for consideration and she constantly demands that of those that work with her.

Remarks by Dr.Nnamdi Oboli

Some are born great
Some achieve greatness and
Some have greatness thrust upon them

In the case of Chief Sandra C Duru, she has achieved greatness. A woman of substance who has achieved, in her short years in life, much more than most people her age and older only hope to achieve if given more time. What she has been able to accomplish is nothing short of genius considering her very humble beginnings.

Driven by her insatiable hunger for positive change and unwillingness to be just a bystander waiting for the situations that appalls her to change itself or for some imaginary figure to come and someday effect that change that she so desires to see, she has systematically charted a course in her life that can effectively appropriate that change in her nation, her generation across the globe, among the youth, mothers and women in general and also the less privileged in the society. Being a stickler for proper analysis, she has over the years taken up courses and attended programmers’ in different countries around the world.

This is a lady who has dared to be different where most are unwilling to let go of the norm of the day and she has an almost childlike approach to achieving great results, never giving up where many others before her have hitherto failed in even seeing hope. She does this with a fearless persona that exudes her finest character, her ability to focus. It is this ability that she has that made her to be accepted as a consultant to the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON).

There she exhibited her strong convictions to get things done right by training the operatives of SON in various aspects of their jobs so that they can more effectively carry out their duties and rid our great nation, Nigeria, of fake and substandard goods, which, in many cases, endangered the life and health of our citizens.

This tenacity of hers has not come without its pitfalls. In carrying out her duties she has rocked the boat of many who would rather they had business as usual in the various operations of the SON and this has led to accusations which led to her arrest by the EFCC and the SSS on trumped up charges. She was in prison for about 3months and all her documents and business dealings were investigated, but all to no avail because all the charges were dropped for lack of evidence and blatantly false accusations.

Her company, SANCHHY (NIG) LIMITED, was given a clean bill. After all the investigations and all the trauma of the prison ordeal has served to give her company and herself the credibility which it deserves. This has given her a renewed vigor to do more to achieve instead of dampening her spirit.

It is by knowledge that we acquire wisdom, not by age and this is especially true in the case of Chief Sandra C Duru, a revelation for our time, who challenges us to be the change we want in our the society

She is a remarkable woman of our time, a woman of substance, who has been through alot and yet conquered all her fear. She has been through all the worse times, only to rise above it and even achieve and show others how they too can also achieve at the same time.

 

Remarks by David Ashinze

Chief Sandra C. Duru can be likened to Joseph, who in the face of trials, tribulations and betrayal (from those closest to him) remained resolute, believing in God's providence and promise for a bright future. She has had her fair share of trials with the security agencies; Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), The Nigeria Police and Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) which reprimanded her in prison six times for charges she knew nothing about.

Even while in prison, like Joseph who made the prison was a lively place, Chief Sandra Duru, made sure the welfare of the Prisons was improved through out her stay in the prisons, though this period was a trying time in her life, she remained excited and high-spirited, assured of victory.

Like Joseph, who in the long run was the saviour of the family because he forgave those who offended him and caused him pain, Chief Sandra C. Duru has forgiven and has come out victorious and now is back resilient, stronger to make positive impact in the lives of youth. Just as the saying goes, "when the going gets tough, the tough get going", she stands as a role model for all youth.

She has a clean profile with all charges against her dropped. Chief Sandra C. Duru stands in awe of God's power, grace and mercy which has brought her this far through thick and thin.

Remarks by Ambassador Olusegun Olusola

We worked together on Pre-Adult Affairs which she has conceptualized as a project that was truly truly preparing young people for greatness. She has been through some experiences, the thing is, you will never take a look at her and say "you mean you have been through the concentration and the demands and the rigorous of prison yard and survived".

Remarks by Comrade Debo Adeniran

She is vast in experience as if she has lived in this planet for ages, She is articulate, very intelligent, very Compassionate, a very passionate woman on any issue she decides to take on. she is also very passionate like i tried to say, she is very generous, she is also a very experience business woman and a no-nonsense woman. I see in her a potential Leader for this nation and not just for her business empires which she has been able to build through days of hard works. By my own experience and discussion i have with her, She actually deserves what she has achieved so far.

Remarks by NANS (National Association of Nigeria Students)

I have not seen someone that is so pratical like that of Chief Sandra Duru, I was so overwhelmed, for me to have meet someone with lots of problems and she was able to do that in an instance. At the moment, i dont even know what to say or even start from, i just dont want to be too emotional with what i ahve to say here., i wish every good Nigerian that are rich out there can emulate the life of chief Mrs Sandra Duru.

She is a great Leader, a great woman of our time.

Chief Mrs Sandra Duru is poised and determined to change the life of the younger ones in terms of giving out scholarship, assisting and bringing hope to the hopeless, helping those that are helpless.

Remarks by Marvel .E. Akpoyibo esq (Lagos State Commissioner of Police)

I have known her for a few years, her level of intelligence and industry attracted me to her. She is very articulate, unassuming and ambitious.

One unique thing about her is that, she hates oppression. she fights to sustain justice and equity without counting cost.

Remarks by Pastor Ude

She is my daughter, i know her very well, by the special grace of God, she is a good daughter to me and the ministry. I am an evangelist, I preach the Gospel, the bus we are using today was given to the ministry by her. I remember what was written on that bus was Pre-Adult Affairs Organization. Its not easy to give, i know her as a giver.She has contributed a lot to God's work.

Remarks by A Staff

She is a goal-getter, she is tough and at the same time very very nice. she is a mother,she takes her time to prepare meal for us as staff, a great Motivator, a role model to the young people of Nigeria and all over the world. She is loved by all the staffs.

Remarks by A Staff

She has really impacted my life alot, she has really motivated me to be the best i could be. It is just clear prove that no matter how young you are, age is not an obstacle or barrier, you can achieve whatever you want to achieve in a short while. She is a wonderful person, she is very generous, very nice. she carries everyone along, she is humble.

Remarks by A Staff

She is someone that believes in young people, she is someone that has passion for young people, teenagers and she is ready to do anything to se young people grow beyond where they are.

Remarks by Elushade Kolawole

Chief Sandra .C. Duru loves giving, she has affected my life positively, she is a light to people's darkness, looking through her heart, she has love and compassion for humanity. she is a woman of vitue, a Leader, a great woman of our time. she is an asset to this nation Nigeria, Africa and the whole world at large.

Remarks by Lemeh Henry (PA to chief Sandra Duru)

Chief Sandra Duru is an epitome of truth and true leader, who will first serve before she is served. A lion, a mother, defender of the weak and less priviledged.

She is truly deserves to be called the Great Servant of Our Time (GSOT)!.

Remarks by Engr Donald (NBTE)

I believe you have a heart of Gold and giving.

I also know that givers never lack. Your project of training the less priviledge is definitely not for the sake of money but for humanity. keep it up. I know it will not be easy but you have been equipped by God.

Remarks by D. Joe Agidi

It's interesting to find a young woman in this generation to imbibe the thought action of our Lord Jesus Christ. A vision to take care of the less priviledge of this country.

She has found those who are hungry, those who are naked.....and to all those, she now has a plan to meet their needs.

I just pray that God in his infinte mercies will see her through (Amen).

Remarks by Alh M. K. Jumare (NBTE)

A laudable project that will eventually stand the test of time for the oncoming generations. A project that came at a time when Nigerians are desperate. An opportunity for fellow Nigerians to emulate and propagate.

Remarks by Sunmon David Gbenga (Honorary Secretary Nigerian Hotel & Catering Institute)

A laudable project that is "Needy friendly" this is challenging and a worthwhile investment in the right direction.

Please keep the flag flying especially for the generation that which you belong to.

More grease to your elbow!

Remarks by Joe Onaniyi

She has the less priviledge in mind is a good project. it is a legacy that she wants to give the society. I therefore commend her initiative in this direction. Besides, to make it sustainable, there could be other auxiliary services that you may wish to take along. Good luck and God bless you.

Remarks by Ndu .U. M. ( FME, Abuja)

This ia a laudable dream, bear in mind that nothing good comes easy, but the Lord who allowed you to see life in this light, will never leave you mid-way.

Remarks by CP Marvel Akpoyibo

I have known Sandra Duru for a few years. Her level of intelligence and industry attracted me to her. She’s very articulate, unassuming, ambitious and sometimes respectful. She has very big ambitions and she wants to get to the top in everything she does. One unique thing about her is she hates oppression. She fights to sustain justice and equity without counting the cost. She could be very temperamental sometimes. She is very bold and she has a very high carriage of herself.

Talking about pre adult affairs organisation that she has founded, as a police officer, I think I am interested in it because we are talking about pre adult affairs which are the foundational frame work for any individual development. If you get it right before adulthood, you get it right thereafter. If you get it wrong, you are going to have problems thereafter. If you must deal with crime, emphasis must be laid on the pre adult. The pre adult activities will encompass family background, family training, educational background, up bringing, influence of peers schools and moral doctrines. The personality of the adult is a reflection of the activities before adulthood. The pre adult is the stage where personality is formed. It is a very fundamental stage in formation of individual personality and value system. Such an NGO will go places if well positioned and if the activities are well directed. It will address so many aspects of societal needs, ranging from motherless babies, child care, the rights of women and children, crime and criminality in the society because if we get it right from the beginning, every adult will behave with decorum and abide by the law. It is at the pre adult stage that we have been getting it wrong that is why we have problems in the adults, and that is what Sandra has set programmes to put right.

About Chief Sandra Chidinma Duru, every individual can only get to the height they dictate for themselves. She will go places because of the potentials she has. If she can harness all the skills that are inherent in her, she will certainly hit the roof. She has manifested tremendous potentials of greatness but she needs the guidance of the Holy Spirit. She needs to be very close to God, totally surrendered to the almighty God and allow God to order everything that concerns her, because I do not see her as an ordinary child/lady, Sandra is a very Strong/good spirit that cannot be killed, stopped or destroyed by anybody or forces. Sandra Duru is a genius, you need to be upright, smart and intelligent to move or work with her, and she is strong-willed and fearless. I always say to my dear friend, daughter Sandra Duru that it is not every fight you undertake physically, there are some fights you hand over to the almighty God. You must live a life that is very submissive to the almighty God and then you’ll have your peace. That’s why the bible says; cast all your cares upon him. If you react to everything that’s said about you, you’ll be distracted and you will not go too far. These are the areas she must address very very seriously. Sandra Duru that I know loves God and she is very generous and fearless irrespective of the challenges that come her way, she’s always strong and ready. She is an asset to our country Nigeria.

Remarks by Emeka Umegboh (WebMaster)

As the team worked on the site, Chief Sandra Chidinma Duru personified : "INSPIRATION", A DREAM TAKING FORM", A POSITIVE NEW CHAPTER FOR THIS & FUTURE GENERATION", "AN UNVEILING OF MAGIC".

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