You Have Sent Your Relief Items To A Village In Akuse Where There Is No Presbyterian Church—"Neglected" PCG Members At Mepe Township To National Church Leadership

THE WORST HIT flood victims who are members of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) of Mepe in the North District of the Volta Region have cautioned their national executives leadership, to desist from peddling falsehood about what they have not done to aid them when they were displaced during the current Akosombo and Akuse dams spillage or they would be compelled to spill the beans.

According to them, they have already expressed their disappoinment in the national leadership of the PCG headquartered in Accra for neglecting them, particularly the hard plight of the flood victims who are members of the church in Mepe and its adjoining communities.

"We would like to state categorically that it is a complete lie and cooked or fabricated story to the effect that the leadership of the PCG had also donated items to us in Mepe. We are responding by the setting the record that the relief items we saw on Facebook page of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana were rather sent to a village around Akuse in the Eastern Region where there is no Presbyterian Church.

"We the flood victims who are members of the church in Mepe have not received any of relief item loaded in the vehicles showed in your Facebook page publications. If you don't believe what we are saying, then we are changing you to come to us at Mepe to verify," they stressed.

"After neglecting us in our plight you have (referring to the leadership of PCG) ended up of issuing a harsh press statement to lie to the general public of what you have not done to us, the last thing we expect from our national leadership is further pain and we would advise them to stop peddling the lies or else we put out even more of their callousness," the distraught flood victims who are members of the PCG of Mepe have fired back.

The agitations of the victims come to fore after the national leadership of PCG which headquartered at the Kukuhill in Osu, Accra had penned a press statement to refute the publication of Soireenews.com to the effect that the church has neglected its members at Mepe and its adjoining communities during Akosimbo Dam spillage. 

However, the outright refuting of the allegations levelled against the PCG didn't gone well with the victims who expressed disappoinment in the leadership of PCG for peddling lies in their press statement.

The leadership of PCG in a press statement from the Public Relations Unit of the church responded that the church was one of the first institutions that responded by extending aid to the affected communities, claiming that the official Facebook page (Presbyterian Church of Ghana) has publications on some of the distributions in pictures and videos.

But in a quick response, the flood victims

in Mepe who are members of the church and housed at Mepe PCG stressed that it is a lie, saying that no mattress and relief items were given to any member as claimed by the national leadership of the church in the Facebook page publications.

"We are daring the leadership of PCG to come out boldly to prove with pictures of the relief items brought to Mepe. Because it seems that most of the explanations stated in the press statement by the PCG are hollow or lack meaning. This press statement by the leadership of PCG has no substance. We are stressing that there is no substance in any of these claims," they stated.

They pointed out "The items we saw on Facebook was sent to a village around Akuse where there is no Presbyterian Church, adding that "That was our investigation about the items.

The "neglected" PCG members at Mepe township noted that they have not received any item from the national level of PCG, saying that it was only the North Tongu District branch of PCG which donated some relief items including balls of kenkey to them.

They repeated that their investigations have discovered that the items the church claimed to have been sent to the victims in Mepe were sent to a community situated at Akuse.

According to them, it was the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Ebenezer Congregation at Ada- Sege which showed sympathy and love to donate some items to the victims but it was not true that the national leadership of the church has donated any relief items to the victims

"We are daring the national leadership of the church to provide the name of the person they presented the items through in Mepe to be given to us being the flood victims who are members of the church in Mepe. They should show up in pictures of the items and those who received them in Mepe. 

"When we were housed in Mepe Presbyterian Church of Ghana chapel we were served with cooked foods three times and that we were told that the items were coming from the the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Ebenezer Congregation at Ada- Sege and North Tongu District of PCG. That are all we have received. But nobody come from the national executives leadership of the PCG to donate relief items to us," the victims reaffirmed.

Below is the statement of PCG