Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer (G.O) of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has distributed food items to over 3, 000 households in Gombe State to lessen the effect of the lockdown which is intended to contain the spread of coronavirus in the state.
The Pastor-in-charge of Gombe Province, Pastor Jibrila Wayas who represented the Pastor Adeboye, told newsmen after the exercise in Gombe on Monday that the food items were to assist the needy in 50 communities.
Wayas said the items were given to representatives of these communities to ensure that the people are catered for as well as show the love of Christ unto their wellbeing.
“ We have made arrangements to take the items to every households in their communities so that they don’t all gather here. By calling the leaders of these communities, we are adhering to social distancing directive,” he said.
He stressed that the source of the items was from God Almighty who had ministered to Pastor E.A Adeboye and he made sure that none of his children is ever in lack.
“ We are grateful to God and our Daddy in the Lord for these items which will cushion the effects of the lockdown in this time because most of the people are on daily paid jobs,” he said.
He prayed God to intervene to address the pandemic ravaging the world, adding “ that the countdown of coronavirus had started but we must continue to adhere to preventive measures.”
Also speaking, Mrs Grace Samuel, the Church’s Provincial Co-ordinator, Corporate Social Responsibility Department called on religious leaders to assist the people with palliatives that would help ameliorate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the people.
“Our father in the Lord Pastor Adeboye has shown that he is a leader. If people have given offering and the same people are having problems, the right thing to do is to support them,” she said.
Samuel added that the church through various initiatives under her department had embarked on countless programmes in terms of training and empowering the people as well as offering medical outreaches to support the people in Gombe communities.
Our correspondent reports that the items distributed include Rice, beans, garri, maize, groundout oil, spaghetti, sugar and maggi.
