NDDC Presents Relief Materials To Gbaramatu Communities

In response to  victims of mili
tary invasion in Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South-West Local  Government Area of Delta State, the intervention agency, the Niger Delta Development Commission  (NDDC), has donated  relief  materials  and medical supplies to the people of the area.
It would be recalled that the military Joint Force searching for militants involved in series of bombing  of oil installation  had stormed  Gbaramatu communities.
The NDDC Acting Managing Director, Mrs Ibim Semenitari said, the commission responded  to a distress call from the communities affected by the military operations targeted at pipeline vandals and militants.
She said, in course of the military operations, the people  suffered damages  which made it necessary  for the commission to write a team of doctors to give medical support to the people.
According to her, the commission sent a team of doctors and medications to all the health centres in the affected communities, adding that about 30 communities were affected.
“We stretched our resources to cover at least 15 of those communities. This is not the first time NDDC is coming to Oporoza. Two years  ago, we had a full medical  mission here. It is an ongoing relationship,” he stated.
The NDDC boss who was represented by the commission’s Deputy Director in Health, Education  and Social  Services Directorate, Dr George Uzonwanne, said  it is only when there is peace  that the commission can function optimally  in the communities and urged members of the communities  that ran into the creeks  to return back home.
NDDC, she said carried out the programme in conjunction with RAHI Medical Outreach.
The Managing Director of RAHI, Dr Chris Ekiyor noted that military activities in Gbaramatu Kingdom displaced a lot of people leaving the women, children and the aged vulnerable.
“The intervention was necessary because when the displaced people were in the bush,  they endured mosquito bites and drank polluted water. They will come down with  gastro-enteritis, get infections and malaria. So we are responding to that”, he said.

Chris Oluoh