The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and Mouka Foam Nigeria Ltd. on Saturday donated relief materials to flood victims in Edo.
The management of the organisations said that the gesture was to help in ameliorating the current plight of the internally displaced persons in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that three local government areas were ravaged by floods in the state.
The Edo Commissioner in the NDDC board, Mr Henry Okhuorobo, also donated some food items to the state government as part of the organisation’s social corporate responsibility to the victims.
Okhuorobo said that the gesture was part of the organisation’s interventionist responsibility to the people of the state.
He commended the state government for its prompt response to the plight of the victims.
Some of the items donated include, 100 bags of rice, 20 bags of beans, 30 bags of garri, 100 bags of iodised salt, 100 cartons of tin tomato, 100 pieces of lantern, cartons of toilet soap and 600 carton of bottled water.
Similarly, Mrs Peju Adebajo, the Managing Director of Mouka Foam, made the donation of 200 mattresses and pillows to the state government on behalf of the establishment.
She added that the gesture was part of the company’s responsibility to the victims to help cushion the effect of the flood disaster.
Adebajo said that it was the collective responsibility of all and sundry in the country to find a long term solution to the flood to avoid reoccurrence.
She said that the donation was to?encourage non-governmental organisations and other corporate entities to donate generously to the victims.
She promised that the company would add 10 free mattresses to every 100 mattresses donated by any organisation, government or individual to the victims.
Receiving the relief materials, Mr Pius Odubu, the Deputy Governor in Edo, commended the two organisations for the gesture and called on other corporate organisations to emulate them. (NAN)