By Lucky Isibor,
The Bishop of Benin Diocese, Anglican Communion, Rt. Rev. (Dr.) Peter Imasuen has called for change of lifestyle as a means of boosting immunity to enhance the human body’s ability to fight against the novel Covid-19 pandemic and other diseases.
Bishop Imasuen made the call while making his remarks at the presentation of cash palliatives and face masks to widows in the Benin Diocese of Anglican Communion at the Anglican Bishop Court in Benin on Friday, May 29 by Umagbae N’ Edo Club of Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
He said the donors decided to give out cash palliatives to enable the widows to either buy food stuffs, or other necessities.
“We should go back to the drawing board in the sense that the food we eat contributes to these problems and challenges. Some people are weak because their immune system is weak as a result of the food they eat, but if we go back and start eating our native foods this coronavirus will become a thing of the past.”
While thanking members of the club for the gesture, Bishop Imasuen whose goodwill attracted the donation, prayed God to bless the work of their hands and their labour of love.
“I feel happy and fulfilled seeing the widows within the Anglican Communion, three hundred of them, these are people who cannot take care of themselves and our brothers now came and have met their needs. It is our prayers that God will preserve and keep them for us, that whatever they set their hands on shall prosper.”
In their separate remarks, Osaze David Iyabor, Enosakhare Ogbeide and Bright Umweni Osemwingie Uhunamure who represented the president of the club, Chief John Egbe and other members of Umagbae N’ Edo Club of Atlanta, said the club was formed in 2005 as a vehicle for reaching out to the needy in times like this noting that they are aware what widows are going through especially at this time of the Covid-19 lock down.
They enjoined other groups within and outside the country to reach out to whatever number of persons they can assist adding that it must not be 300 persons as they have done.
Thanking the members of Umagbae N’Edo Club of Atlanta, wife of Bishop Imasuen, Mrs. Gladys Imasuen urged the women to continue to pray for them as the cash donation will complement the food items earlier donated by the Anglican Diocese and the state government.
One of the benefitting widows, Mrs. Caroline Aigbovbiosa while appreciating the donors said, “to God be the glory for these people to remember the widows”.
