TC chairman visits Holding Centres in Onitsha for displaced persons from flooded communities

Fri, Sep 28, 2018 | By publisher


Politics

Patrick Agha Mba, Transition Committee chairman, Onitsha North, has visited one of the Holding Centres newly activated in Onitsha.

The centre is located at the Crowder Primary School, Onitsha North, where hundreds of displaced persons from Anambra West were being sheltered.

Addressing the displaced persons at the centre, Agha Mba said his visit there, was to see how they were faring since arriving at the centre and to assure them that Government of Anambra would care for them.

He re-assured them that Government was committed to their welfare and applauded Gov. Willie Obiano for his efforts in catering for victims since the flooding started.

Agha Mba pledged to provide them adequate security and ensuring that they would not lack anything.

According to C.Y. Agupugo, the director Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Peter Emeka Katchy, Vice-Chairman, Red Cross Anambra society, relief materials are being released to the victims.

Agupugo added that relief materials such as mattresses, mosquito Nets, Food items and Drugs for the sick persons were also being distributed too.

He noted that oral drips were being administered to children suffering from diarrhoea as part of measures to check its spread in the holding centres.

The SEMA director, maintain that 90 per cent of people had been trained to manage the holding centres, including standing teams to take charge of them.

Katchy stressed that he had discussed with the school principal to come and commence running classes for the displaced children, starting from Friday, September 28.

He added that he would provide exercise books to them.

Nwabu Martins, a Holding Centre manager, said challenges facing them include medication for children, portable water and leaking roof of the holding centre.

Some of the displaced person’s including Justina Enede, 45, with five children and Gabriel Okeja, all from Ala and Olugwa communities, Anambra West LGA, said that they were happy with the state Government for efforts in rescuing them from their flooded communities.

He confirmed that they were feeding well and were getting everything they needed.

Enede said it was regrettable that they lost all their means of livelihood as a result of the flooding, and appealed to Government and good-spirited individuals to come to their aid.

– Sept. 28, 2018 @ 16:49 GMT |

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