By Tony Oraeki,Awka
Julius Berger Nigeria Limited, has provided twenty five empty containers at the Second Niger bridge toll-gate area to serve as improvised shelters for the thousands of families displaced by flood in Anambra and Delta communities.
Mr. Frederick Weiser, Project Director, Julius Berger, disclosed this when he received members of the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), in his office at head-bridge Onitsha, Anambra State, on Wenesday.
He said they also provided treated water and some other relief materials on daily bases to mitigate the hardship of the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP.
Weiser also noted that the company will retrieve the containers at the end of the flooding.
According to him, the gesture was among other development assistance the company has been rendering to all the communities situated around the Second Niger Bridge, since the begining of project in the past four years.
Mr. Weiser equally informed COREN that work is ongoing despite the flooding, adding that the Bridge would be officially opened for use in December, 2022.
In his remarks, the State Chairman of COREN, Engr. Victor.O. Meju applauded the Construction Company (JB), for the humanitarian gesture which, he said, would help ameliorate the plights of the IDPs within the trying period.
” I must say that I am quite impressed.
“I do not know that Julius Berger Nigeria Limited is such a wonderful Company that is so humanitarian in nature that can deal with situations like the ones we have in this IDPs camps where people are in the state of emergency and also, in utter state of need,” Meju stated.
He, therefore, appealed to public spirited individuals, philanthropic organisations and corporate bodies as well as Non-Governmental Organisations,NGOs in the country to emulate the gesture largely demonstrated by Julius Berger in complementing the efforts of the state government of Anambra and Delta towards ameliorating the plights of the IDPs.
One of the beneficiaries of the Julius Berger gesture, who spoke on behalf of others, Abdullahi Musa, a resident of one of the affected communities, (Oko village), near the Second Niger Bridge, expressed profound appreciation to JB for the humanitarian services, adding that the company has given them a life line through the donation of the Containers and the treated water.
Musa, appealed to governments to assist them with food items too for their children.
