The Presidential Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation on Tuesday paid a visit to the displaced persons camp in Edo State and donated relief materials worth millions of naira to the victims.
Co-Chairman of the Committee, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, who led the team to Edo State, said the state was the first in the list of affected states to be visited.
While sympathizing with the governor and the people of the state over the flood disaster, Dangote said: “This committee is made of heavyweights from the various professions.
“They are not here to make money out of this.
“We are trying to see if we can raise N100billion.
“We had a fund raising at the villa at Abuja and we have actually raised twelve billion.
“I want to assure you that the displaced Nigerians would not be left to suffer.
“We will come to their rescue.
“We will help not only in terms of flood but we will make sure that they would be better off than they were before.”
In his response, Governor Adams Oshiomhole thanked President Goodluck Jonathan for providing the leadership to galvanize support for the victims of displaced persons because the challenge of the flooding is enormous.
Oshiomhole said: “I want to appreciate Mr. President for putting up such a high-powered committee who have laboured to get to the level where they are and whose compassion to share part of their resources in a coordinated effort to mitigate the sufferings of those affected, and give them hope.
“Mr. President has done extremely well.
“He has helped to tell us, as Nigerians, that we should be our brothers’ keeper in our time of need.”
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