COVID-19: Organisation provides succour to IDPs in Kaduna

The Baptist World Alliance, has provided succour to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Kachia, Chikun, Kaura and Kajuru LGAs of Kaduna State as part of efforts to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Arewa Trust Weekly reports that the foundation distributed sanitizers, soaps, buckets as well as food items including rice, corn, wheat, spaghetti and tubers of yam to the IDPs.

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The Executive Director of Nigerian Baptist Convention, Reverend Testimony Onifade, who distributed the items on behalf of the Baptist World Alliance in Kaduna, said the gesture was aimed at sustaining peace and unity in the state especially among the diverse ethnic, religious and cultural groups.

“These people are suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic and also from the killings and kidnappings.

“We have come in the name of the Baptist World Alliance to sensitise members of the communities on COVID-19 as well as distribute food and non-food items to representatives of all the tribes, Christians and Muslims as well as women and the youth from the affected LGA’s.

“We are trying to see what the international community can do to make sure that people who have been displaced are living well and have the privilege and hope of returning to their original base. Our hope is that 2021 will be a year of peace, a year of restoration and a year of unity.”

He reminded community members to be their brother’s keeper in line with the tenets of the holy books.

Responding, the president, Kaduna Baptist Convention, Reverend Ishaya Adamu Jangado, thanked the foundation for the gesture which he said came at the right time.