Club Donates Drugs To Port Harcourt Prison

The Rotary Club of Port Harcourt Down Town District 9140 has donated hundreds of bottles of Benzyl Benzyl Benzodte drugs to the Port Harcourt maximum prison to assist the prison authorities in the fight against skin rashes among inmates of the  prison.

The president of the club, Dr Tamuno Opubo Abiye who presented the drugs, during a visit to the prison, said that the gesture was part of the community service programme of the Rotary Club of Port Harcourt Down Town.

Dr Abiye also said that the club would soon embark on a medical outreach to the  prison.  While efforts will be made to reach out to the authorities to see to the decongestion of the prison.

Meanwhile, hundreds of inmates of the prison have been conferred with Ambassadors of Peace Awards by the Rotary club of Port Harcourt Down Town.

The club president said that the awards was inline with the rotary international theme for 2013 which is peace and conflict resolution.

He urged the prisoners to see peace as the only option for survival, contending that, as they regain their freedoms, they must spread the message of peace, wherever they find themselves .

Dr Abiye also counseled them not to see their present predicament as the end of life, as God Almighty can course people to remember them, but warned against further indulgement in acts that are not in conformity with peace and the love of Christ.

In his exhortation, Rotarian Chuku A. Blossom, urged the prison inmates to pray fervently for God’s mercy as they present predicament that may be as a result of spiritual manipulation.

Rotarian Blossom also urged them to avoid the guide rich syndrome that is pervading the society, stressing that a number of young people are today languishing in jail because of kidnapping for ransome and cultism.

In his speech, the Head of Protestant Group of Churches, Port Harcourt prison, who is also an inmate of the prison, Pastor Isaiah Gogo Kings, described the visit of the club to the prison as a manifestation of the fulfillment of God’s prophecy.

Pastor Kings  who was a former police officer however said that most of the inmate are victim of a decaying society.

He stressed the need for the Rivers State Governor and the state Chief Judge to tamper  Justice with mercy, by embarking on Jail delivery exercises to the prison.

Pastor Kings further decried the harsh bail conditions of some of the prison inmates and urged for public support.