The General Overseer (GO), Champions for Christ Chapel, Asaba, Delta State, Samuel Akpan-Isong, has appealed to the Presidency, National Assembly, governors, spirited individuals and the rich in the society to tackle food insecurity and other socio-economic challenges to cushion the effects these problems have on the masses.
Akpan-Isong also tasked the ruling class not to lock their gates against the poor, but to give, no matter how small, to the people around them, saying: “When people are happy, you are happy too; but when they are not happy, you share in their pains.”
The cleric stated this in Asaba when he donated rice, bread, garri, cash and other food items worth millions of naira to a 90 year-old woman, single mothers, and other vulnerable people who are grappling with hunger.
The GO said that his gesture in donating the food items to about 60 members and nonmembers of the church was to raise the bar and hope of the hopeless to upscale their livelihoods.
He said that the gesture was to stop the vulnerable from crying and dying, occasioned by the current economic hardship, which is biting almost everybody in Nigeria today.
He said: “There is hunger in the land today. And I looked at the Church members, and the surrounding neighbourhood, I saw that most of them are not well to do, and, therefore, need the support of others to survive.”
