Flooding: Visit victims, affected communities – Group tells Akwa Ibom gov

The Center for Human Rights and Accountability Network, CHRAN, has called connected Governor Umo Eno to personally sojourn communities and families who mislaid valuables and lives successful past week’s flood incidental successful Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

The politician had earlier commiserated with the victims of the flood incidental and ordered applicable agencies to commence the desilting of drain channels and different measures to mitigate the impact.

In a connection successful Uyo on Monday, the State Director of CHRAN, Franklyn Isong, stated that issuing a property merchandise was not capable to assuage the plight of the victims, noting that the governor’s carnal beingness volition marque overmuch impact.

He besides called connected the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, the Akwa Ibom State Emergency Management Agency, AKSEMA, State Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, humanitarian organisations, firm bodies, faith-based institutions and well-meaning Nigerians to enactment alleviation efforts and assistance affected individuals and communities.

“CHRAN notes that the carnal beingness of a politician astatine the country of immoderate catastrophe reassures victims that they person not been abandoned and this demonstrates that authorities genuinely shares successful their pain.

“Crisis connection is not simply astir issuing a Press Release; it is astir demonstrating empathy, inspiring nationalist confidence, calming anxieties, and assuring citizens that their ...