After over two weeks of neglect and abandonment of flood victims who have been rendered homeless and displaced across Delta State, the state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has finally bowed to pressure and commenced visitation to camps of Internally Displaced persons(IDPs). The governor, who has been carried away with political activities and busy with his vice presidential ambition, on Tuesday, bowed to the pressure of the flood victims especially from the Isoko nation who had accused him of neglect and abandonment.
October 18, 2022This is just as the flood continued to ravage them, destroying homes, farm land, properties and other livelihoods worth several millions of naira.
This is just as the flood continued to ravage them, destroying homes, farm land, properties and other livelihoods worth several millions of naira. Victims, had also lambasted governor Okowa and accused him of placing more importance on his vice presidential ambition and his party's ongoing campaigns than the lives of Deltans who are being killed and their homes and livelihoods destroyed by the massive flood.
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