As surging floods continue to ravage communities and displace people from their homes, the Metropolitan Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha, Anambra State, Rev. Valerian Okeke, has counselled victims to realise that the Church shares their ordeal.

Archbishop Okeke gave the charge, yesterday, during his visit to the Internally Displaced Persons camp at Crowther Memorial Primary School, Onitsha, and charged them to bear their present situation with patience and hope in God for a better tomorrow.

The Archbishop, who was accompanied by the Chancellor of the Archdiocese, Fr. Prudentus Aroh, as well as other priests, donated food items, which include: 150 yam tubers, 30 bags of Rice, five bags of beans, five cartons of tomatoes, five bags of noodles, 50 litres of groundnut oil, 50 litres of palm oil, two bags of potatoes, 10 pieces of sleeping mats, assorted biscuits and toiletries to victims.

He prayed that the rampaging flood would not last long but recedes soonest so that the people can return to their homes and resume their normal lives.

“We pray that inmates will not lack food and water and that there won’t be any outbreak of diseases in the camp until the challenge fades away,” he noted.