Group Donates Materials To Ogba Flood Victims

A socio-cultural organization based in the United States of America with the acronym-Umu-Ogba in United States (UUSA), has distributed relief materials worth millions of Naria to the flood victims in Ogbaland.

Items distributed include, four hundred basins of garri, one hundred bags of rice, twenty bags of black eye peas beans, fifty cartons of soya beans powder, fifty cartons of cerelac baby food (Nigerian brand) among others.

Speaking at various centres in the affected communities, the national president of Umu Ogba USA , Mr. Benneth Ossiah, explained that, the association was a non profit, no-political group of Ogba sons and daughters living in the United State, adding that, the objective of the body is to provide a forum where its members can actively participate in the development of Ogba land and promote the culture and tradition of the Ogba ethnic group.

He thanked the advisory committee for the good work they had been doing on their behalf in Ali-Ogba, and urged them to maintain the tempo.

The president of Umuogba USA, who was in the company of the chairman Advisory Committee in Ali Ogba and Head of Department, Computer Science Department at the Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku, Rivers State, Mr. Conqueror Wokocha, and other members of the committee, noted that the flood was a natural phenomenon that had brought chaos, hunger and frustration to people the world over.

Mr. Ossiah said that the provision of relief materials by Umuogba in USA  was a mark of concern for the their brothers and sisters, adding that they would execute the second phase of the project to enhance the reduction of the predicament that overwhelmed the victims of the flood.

Also speaking, the chairman of Umuogba USA Advisory Committee in Ali-Ogba, Mr. Conqueror Wokocha stated that they were supplementing government efforts to check the suffering of the flood victims, and advised them to rise above psychological depression and do things that would make them square up with the trials of life.

In their speeches, the traditional rulers and community development committees CDCs of the twenty five towns and villages who benefited from the first phase, thanked the Umu Ogba in USA for their magnanimity and philanthropic disposition.

They noted the role of social organization in the development of the society and commended them for their ingenuity and prayed God to sustain them as forces of social change, to enable them continue to serve humanity.

It will be recalled that Umu-Ogba USA had carried out an initial project, called Elieta School Project, before embarking on the donation of relief materials to flood victims in Ogba.