Lions Club Assists Kogi Flood Victims

Lions Club International, District 404A2 Nigeria, has donated food items to flood victims in Lokoja and Kotonkarfe local government areas of Kogi State.

Speaking to newsmen at one of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Adankolo, Lokoja, Lion Jide Bello, the club’s district governor, Abuja, said, ”the Lion club is a charity organisation that is always there to help where there is need.”

Bello said they were in Kogi to distribute food items and clothing materials to the displaced indigenes of the state. His words, ”We heard about the flood disaster that submerged their homes and we made our inquiry to get the statistics of their numbers in various IDPs camps in Lokoja and Kotonkarfe.

”We are able to identify four camps, which are Kotonkarfe, Serki-Noma, Adankolo and Gadumo.

”So, we have brought food and other relief items to share and sympathize with them, and to say ‘where there is need there is always a lion’.”

He added that “On the whole, based on our statistics, we have reached out to over 3000 victims including males and females in Kogi. We give Kogi a priority because it is worst-hit by the flood disaster, next week by God’s grace we shall be visiting Rivers, Bayelsa, Anambra and Ebonyi states,” he said.