Floods: Wike praised, Delta first lady donates relief materials

Wife of Delta State Governor, Edith Okowa, donated relief materials to at least 5,500 victims taking refuge at Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps across the state.

She  made the donation through her pet project, 05 Initiative, during visits to the camps at Utagba-Ogbe Technical College, Kwale, with 3,074 IDPs; Alaka Grammar School, Ozoro, with 1,180 IDPs and Isoko Central School, Oleh, with 1,300 IDPs.

Oba of Ogbaland, Nwachukwu Nnam Obi, has lauded Governor Nyesom Wike’s inauguration of an interventionist committee to tackle the effects of flood in Ogba/Egbema/ Ndoni Local Government Area (ONELGA) and by extension the Orashi region of Rivers State.

Obi also commended members of the interventionist committee for visiting the affected communities to get first-hand report about the extent of damage by the flood.

The monarch spoke late Saturday when members of the Rivers State Taskforce on Flood Management led by the chairman, George Nwaeke, visited him at his palace in Omoku, after they had visited communities submerged by flood in the area.

He said the Federal Government agencies ought to visit the affected areas to ascertain the extent of the damage, even as he expressed willingness to partner with Rivers government to achieve its mandate in cushioning the effect of the flood.

Members of the committee had visited some flashpoints in the Ahoada East LGA in order to ascertain the extent of damaged and to empathise with flood victims.

Chairman of the Taskforce committee, Nwaeke, who is the Permanent Secretary  Special Services Bureau (SSB) in the Office of the Secretary to the Rivers State Government, expressed shock at the impact of the flood saying the entire Ahoada West council had become submerged and inaccessible.

Nwaeke thanked Governor Wike for his timely intervention and appropriating N1 billion to cushion the effect of the flood, and for identifying with the people during the hard time.