COVID 19: Churches’ Compliance Excites Commissioner

Rivers State Commissioner for Power, Elder Damiete Hebert Miller has rated very high the level of compliance by churches in Degema Local Government Area on social distancing.
The commissioner said this during a tour of some churches and other worship centres in the local government area to observe their level of compliance to Government directive on social distancing.
He said the churches had shown that they were in support of government’s effort to curb the dreaded coronavirus pandemic.
“We went to St. Alban’s Anglican Church, Obuama, First Baptist Church Degema Town and other smaller churches including the children sessions in the local government area and were very much impressed on how the church managements complied to governor’s directives in the aspect of maintaining social distancing, running-washing water, sanitizer placed at strategic positions of the churches,” the commissioner said.
Miller also urged the churches to provide the faithful with nose masks and hand gloves in addition to the existing released materials.
Also speaking, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth Development, Dr Rowland Obed White, the Director, Federal Road Maintenance Agency, Mr. Believe Igani and the Coordinator, National Youth Council of Nigeria, Degema Local Government Branch, Mr. Isobe Bille who were on the Commissioner’s entourage expressed gratitude for the level of compliance which the faithful in the Degema Local Government Area displayed.
They encouraged the church managements to continue to oblige to the instruction of hand washing and sanitiser for safety of their lives.
Responding, the Vicar of St. Alban’s Anglican Church, Ven Simeon L. Nteil and that of First Baptist Church, Deacon S.T. Okueno and the CDC Chairman Obuama Community, Mr. Harry Clifford Ibanibo respectively said that they were impressed on the proactive, measures the government had taken to ensure “the dreaded disease called Covid-19 (Coronavirus) does not come here”.
They also pleaded with the government to provide the people with the “temperature gauge”, nose masks and hand glove for their protection.