Church Donates Materials To Flood Victims

The Salvation
Army Church of Nigeria has again donated relief materials worth  millions of naira to assist flood victims of
some communities in Ahoada West and Ahoada East local government areas of
Rivers State.

The
Rivers and Bayelsa States Divisional Commander of the Church, Major Joseph C.
Mbagwu, who presented the materials to Oburama and Abwunubokor communities
through the chairman of the Area Corps, Chief Kingdom Jegbu said the donation
was to alleviate the sufferings of the victims, whose damaged houses and crops
denied over 80-percent of them access to means of livelihood as they return to
their respective communities after the flood.

He
said that, the church hoped that the relief materials would assist the victims’
stressing that, it is a goodwill donation to expresse the church’s concern for
the suffering of the affected people.

Major
Mbagwu said that the people needed governments, special assistance in the
provision of building materials and farm products to enable them settle down
and resume their means of livelihood.

According
to him, Oburama and Abwunuboko were among the first communities to embrace
Salvation Army Church, one of the earliest orthodox churches in the Niger Delta
region.

The
church Divisional Commander, who regretted that, the flood  had impacted negatively on the people of the
affected communities, assured that the church would assist them to renovate
some of the houses and also provide more relief materials untill they finally
settled.

Responding,
Chief Kingdom Jegbu thanked the church for the solidarity stressing, that the
church has good demonstrate the fact that, “we are our brethrens keepers in the
true God Spirit and faiths as Christians.

“The
flood disaster had caused a lot of damages to our houses, on-farm-lands, our
properties, particularly our houses built with mud, were entirely washed away
remaining the skeletons.

“This
relief materials brought of us after given us so much we were in the flood
camp, will further sustain us pending when we have to settle finally.” Chief
Jegbu said.

He
called on the governments, non-governmental organization, (NGOS) individuals
and companies to take measures to ameliorate the suffering of the affected
victims of the post-flood.

It
would be recalled that, flood mundated some parts of the country sweeping away
thousands of communities and farmlands, in many parts of the country.

According
to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Nigeria, the recent flood
disaster had affected over 32 states, with about 2,157,419 persons were
displaced them, while, many lives were loss, properties destroyed and
infrastructures breakdown.