Flood: RSG Assures Victims Of Medical Attention …As Committee Visits More Camps

The Rivers State Government has assured thousands of flood victims in Orashiregion of adequate medical attention.
Chairman, Rivers State Flood Management Committee, Dr George Nwaeke, said this at AbuaCentral during the committee’s visit to some Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps for delivery of more relief materials to victims of the incident.
Nwaeke said the state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, was concerned about their plight, stressing that the governor was doing everything necessary to identify with them.
He also urged them to keep the camps neat to avoid sicknesses.
Items donated include bags of rice, yams, garri, and cartons of indomie, noodles, mattresses, large amount of cash and others.
The committee also made similar deliveries to camps in Ogba/Egbem/Ndoni and Ahoada West local government areas, respectively.
So far, the committee has covered the four local government areas in the delivery of food items, and the next phase is the provision of medical supplies, mattresses and others.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Red Cross Society has called for the provision of more boats to evacuate those trapped in their communities.
The Red Cross Camp Commander, Abua/Odual Local Government Area, Mr Sokari Ikpokirikpa, told newsmen that some people were trapped in their communities, especially in the Odual axis.
He also said the three camps in Abua/Odual need medical attention, stressing that more than 20 communities in the area had been submerged.
The camp commandant also commended the chairman of Abua/Odual for his intervention but said the council alone could not carry the burden.
He commended Wike for responding to the needs of the victims.
Also speaking, some of the victims from Adada and Ogboloma communities in Odualaxis, said their communities have been submerged by the flood.
Some of the victims, especially the women, complained of poor health conditions as they were made to sleep on the floor with children.
The victims said they need support in terms of mattresses,medical attention and money.
They decried the negligence and insensitivity by the Federal Government to render support and assistance to families of flood victims in the area.
The victims, who decried the devastating effect of the flood on the socio-economic wellbeing and properties of the people, commended the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, for demonstrating leadership in curtailing the hunger faced by the people, and prayed God to sustain him to take the state to an enviable height.
On his part, the member representing Abua/Odual and Ahoada East Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Solomon Bob, urged the Federal Government to build new dams and dredge major rivers to forestall further perennial flooding in the country.
He said the flood has affected thousands of people in his constituency.
According to him, mattresses and other items were also donated to victims in the various IDP camps in the area.
Earlier, the Chairman of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, Hon Vincent Job, and his Ahoada West counterpart, Hon. Hope Ikiriko, commended wike for his kind gesture, promising that they would ensure equitable distribution of the materials to the flood victims in the area.