Distribution of the N50 million cash donated by All
Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and
N150 million worth of relief materials facilitated by Deputy Senate President
and Delta APC governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, for flood victims
in the state has commenced.
The cash and gift items, which include bags of rice, beans,
salt, blankets, seasoning, mosquito nets, clothes, roofing sheets and nails,
according to the Director, Communications and Media Strategy, Delta APC
Campaign Organisation, Ima Niboro, were forwarded to leaders of the affected
areas at the local level for onward distribution to victims in Internally
Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps across the three senatorial districts.
The items were collected at the Agbarha-Otor home of
coordinator of the state APC campaign organisation in Delta Central, Chief
Ominimini Obiuwevwi, who, while speaking during the exercise, said the
development was in line with the promise made by Tinubu and Omo-Agege a week
ago to bring succour to the victims.
He disclosed that the three camps visited by the party last
week – Patani (Delta South), Utagba-Ogbe Technical College (Delta North) and
Okwagbe Secondary School (Delta Central) – were given N5 million each and other
15 camps would get N2.3million apiece, while the relief materials would be
shared equally across the three senatorial districts.
Centres in Delta South that received N2.3 million
respectively include those located in Bomadi Town and Tuono in Burutu Local
Council; Isaba in Warri South West Local Council; Inorin, Warri South Local
Council; the late Francis Senator Okpozo’s compound in Ozoro, Isoko North Local
Council and Joel Onovwakpo Thomas campaign headquarters in Emede, Isoko South
Local Council.
Those in Delta North that got the N2.3 million each are:
NDDC IDP Camp, Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Council; DESOPADEC IDP Camp, Ndokwa
East Local Council; Ewulu Mixed Secondary School IDP Camp, Ewulu, Aniocha South
Local Council; Basic Secondary School, Illah, Oshimili North Local Council and
Onne Primary School Cable Point, Asaba, Oshimili South Local Council.
Similarly, Town Hall, Evwreni in Ughelli North Local
Council; Uwheru Grammar School in Ughelli North Local Council; Emadadja
Community IDP, Udu Local Council; Eghereka Secondary School, Ewu-Urhobo,
Ughelli South Local Council and Aladja Community IDP, Udu Local Council, all in
Delta Central, received N2.3 million cash.
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