The Nigerian Navy (NN) has continued to provide humanitarian services to persons in flooded communities of Bayelsa and Rivers states.
The Navy provided relief services including medical care, ferries of stranded commuters along the Okogbe-Ihiuke-Ahoada axis of the East West road in Rivers state, which is a hard-to-reach flooded area and also the provision of relief materials to host community of Agudama-Epie in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state.
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The humanitarian services are aimed at reducing the sufferings of Nigerians who are affected by this year’s flooding.Â
This act is in line with the constitutional mandate of the Nigerian Navy which is to provide aid to civil authority, as enshrined in the strategic directive of the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo; so as ” to assist in bringing this untold hardship of the affected communities and persons to its barest minimum”.
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The relief materials distributed include food stuffs, emergency shelter assistance, relief commodities and hygiene kits to promote safe and healthy practices amid the ongoing cholera outbreak.
The NN will continue to render assistance during this extremely difficult time as the NN has a long history of providing humanitarian assistance.
Recall in 2012, when many communities and persons were sacked by the flood, the NN assisted the government of Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states in evacuating thousands of persons to IDP camps and schools within safe areas of the respective cities in the states.
Additionally, in 2021, the NN ferried Covid 19 medical consumables and palliatives donated by government and spirited individuals to riverine communities in the Niger Delta.