Sheriff Oborevwori visit IDP Camps, assist displaced persons

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As most communities in Delta State are being displaced by ravaging flooding across the State, affected people are calling for government intervention.

The speaker of the Delta State House Of Assembly and Governorship Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, RT. Hon. Sheriff Francis Orowvedoh Oborevwori took relief materials to IDP camps in Isoko North and South to help affected flood victims.

Oborevwori in the company of his supporters and aids first visited the IDP camp in Oleh, the headquarters of Isoko South LGA where about 1,016 victims are taking shelter.

The Speaker sympathised with the victims, assuring them of government support in cushioning their effects, stating that though it is a natural disaster, the government will not fold its hands and allow the citizens to suffer hardship.

He however encouraged those who are yet to come out from their homes to the IDPs camps, to do so and be taken care of.

Oborevwori noted that his visit is to sympathise with them, give them his little support and ascertain the level of disaster caused by the flood.

That the state government is doing everything within its reach to ensure Deltans are safe and donated bags of rice, beans, garri, tubers of yams, salts, toiletries, drinkable waters and other relief materials to the 1,016 and 1,180 in the two local governments IDP camps.

Recounting their losses, some of the internally displaced persons said, the flood has brought them devasting effects as they have lost all they have laboured for over the years.

But expressed gratitude to the speaker for his kind gesture and called on other well-meaning individuals to also come to their aid.