Igbogbo Stadium in Ikorodu, the venue of Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) crusade came alive yesterday as the church distributed clothes, noodles and also carried out surgeries on some patients at the Ikorodu General hospital.
Tagged: Christ Compassion to the Rural World (CCRW), and organised by the founder and initiator of CCRW, Senior Pastor, Matthew Ashimolowo, the event brought fathers, mothers, physically-challenged persons, students and children to the crusade ground.
At the General Hospital Ikorodu, where surgeries were performed on some patients, one of the surgeons, Dr. Olalekan Ajayi, who addressed journalists on behalf of other surgeons at the hospital, said doctors carried out operations on hernia and various body and face lumps.
Ajayi said: “There is a 16-year-old boy, who has been carrying a condition which would have been corrected while he was a child but he just came and we have just corrected it. He is 16 now; in other words, he is practically an adult. These are people who could have been treated earlier. So, for a lot of the people this is an opportunity to get rid of a condition that if money had not been the problem, would have been sorted out long ago.
“We are a set of surgeons organised to come and give surgical service to the less privileged in Ikorodu and its environs. Like I said earlier, people who have been unable to have their conditions treated strictly because of money, not because they don’t want it done, but because they cannot afford it and so, this is an opportunity for a lot of them to get those conditions treated.”
Commending the Lagos State Government for partnering CCRW, Ajayi said: “The General Hospital Ikorodu has been very gracious, they have given us space and quite a few things by using their electricity and water free of charge that the medical director has made available obviously because Lagos State has decided to partner with the organisers of CCRW. We have been doing treatment for hernias and various kinds of lumps and these are the things that we have removed.”
A teacher, Ruth Nwamaka, who benefited from the surgeries, said: “Let me say thank you very much to CCRW and if not for Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, I wouldn’t have done this operation. God will continue to bless him and enlarge his coast and the grace of God will never cease from him.”
Apart from Ruth, others like Bunmi Otuya, Olasunmbo Abayomi, Iyanu Oluwa, Baba Ibikunle Odejare and Lateefat Omowunmi also received clothes and noodles.
Omowunmi said: “I received clothes and noodles and I’m saying thank you to the church and may God bless them. I will continue to come until the crusade is over.”
A physically challenged, John Uche, said: “I return all glory to God for using the church as an instrument of blessing to me. God will bless them abundantly.”
