Totalenergies Donate $ 1.5m To Rivers Flood Victims

TOTAL ENERGIES has donated $ 1.5Million to victims of flooding in communities in Rivers State, as part of efforts aimed at ameliorating the agony of their host communities.

Egi and Ekpeye communities – host to the company’s facilities in its OML 58 concession, were badly affected by the natural disaster. Nine communities were impacted in Egiland and 90 villages in the Ekpeye kingdom. The affected communities in Egi are Akabuka; Oboburu; Idu;

Obagi; Ogbogu; Ohali- Elu; Obite; Obigbor and Ede.

In response, the company established a crisis management response team to alleviate the impact of the scourge on affected communities.

Part of the interventionist measures was provision of

relief materials and logistic assistance to assuage the sufferings of the people with the provision of medical assistance and daily feeding of the victims in the four Internal Displaced Peoples ( IDP) camps set up by the Egi Peoples Assembly.

Some of the measures put in place, according to the company, include evacuation of over 5,000 people from flooded areas; daily feeding of 2,700 IDPS in four camps; provision of 165 life jackets for rescuers and victims; hiring of 25 canoes to help in ferrying trapped victims and two outboard boats to also ferr y trapped flood victims; hiring of four trucks to move victims to IDP camps; a stand- by medical and industrial hygiene team for the IDP camps; and provision of mobile toilets and evacuation trucks for the four IDP camps, among others.